Power outages impact thousands in Seattle on Saturday
SEATTLE - Thousands of people and businesses lost power on Saturday morning.
Most of the outages reported by Seattle City Light were impacting the Beacon Hill area just east of SODO.
The power company reports that a damaged underground cable was the source of the outage. As of 8:45 a.m., there were more than 12,000 outages were impacting SCL customers.
Seattle City Light outage map on May 31, 2025
The estimated restoration of many of the outages were not expected until around 2:45 p.m. on May 31. However, service was back on just before 11 a.m.
The Source: Information for this story came from Seattle City Light.
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