Updated with cause of outage.
Thousands of Snohomish County PUD customers in Edmonds lost power for a few hours Monday morning after a squirrel became caught in a switch at the Five Corners substation, according to PUD spokesperson Aaron Swaney.
The squirrel did not survive the mishap.
The outage occurred just before 9 a.m. and power was restored to customers by about 12:30 p.m.
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Power went out around 9:35 – 9:40 and came back around 10:35 – 10:40 here by Yost Park. Figured to be at a substation based on the number of customers (a little over 5,600) affected at the peak. Also figured it was not a recloser based on the fact that it was gone in one shot instead of going out and coming back twice before just going out. Sorry to hear about the squirrel, but it’s a tough world out there.
I imagine timing was different for different neighborhoods. The start of the outage was provided by the PUD.
Power out by Swedish about 9:15 back on about 2.5 hours later. Poor squirrel.