Snohomish County PUD said that a switch cabinet malfunction was the cause of a power outage that at its peak left about 1,800 customers without power in downtown Edmonds Thursday morning.
PUD spokesperson Aaron Swaney said that power was expected to be completely restored by about 5 p.m. Thursday.
I happened to be at the Edmonds Waterfront Center at the time of power outage (certainly NOT until 5PM) and was led to believe 2 things:
1. That the power outage effected all of Edmonds: from what I could tell this was NOT true– only west side of RR tracks supposedly effected, apparently.
2. West side of RR tracks power-users only/mainly were effected–SEEMS to be true, or at least EWC was without power while I was there. EWC CANNOT suffer these power outages due to necessary heavy elevator usage.
BL: This business of ‘west side of tracks suffering occasional power outages’ is ‘to be expected’, or ‘all is not normal powerwise on west side of tracks/waterfront’ has got to cease. PUD needs to get this FIXED, and permanently.
We are east of the tracks and we’re affected as was most of downtown (1800 households and businesses). This happened about a month ago. Supposedly a squirrel in the transformer. So a new explanation. Kind of like the smell from the wastewater treatment plant. Undergrounding wires would go a long way to addressing these outages. This outage was particularly bad because it went in and out several times with some significant power surges through the system
The WFC has solar. What role did it play in supporting the Center during the outage?