{"id":199839,"date":"2024-11-20T15:30:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/over-600000-people-lost-power-at-peak-of-washington-windstorm"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:30:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T21:30:40","slug":"over-600000-people-lost-power-at-peak-of-washington-windstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/over-600000-people-lost-power-at-peak-of-washington-windstorm","title":{"rendered":"Over 600,000 people lost power at peak of Washington windstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/over-600000-people-lost-power-at-peak-of-washington-windstorm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Puget Sound Energy warned that the magnitude of the storm and the damages could mean that some people will go without power for multiple days. They \u201cencourage customers to make alternate plans as we work to assess the situation and restore power.\u201d The company said the biggest impact is in King County.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-width=\"548\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\"><p> Severe winds from this evening\u2019s bomb cyclone ripped through western Washington, causing a mass outage event throughout most of our service area, with the biggest impact in King County. #WAwx (1\u00f77) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PSETalk\/status\/1859167301989224946\/photo\/1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/NMeoDSkexY\">pic.twitter.com\/NMeoDSkexY<\/a> <\/a>\u2014 Puget Sound Energy (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PSETalk\">@PSETalk<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PSETalk\/status\/1859167301989224946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>PSE reported \u201cextensive numbers\u201d of downed power lines and reminded customers to never touch or go within 30 feet of a downed line, because they may still be energized. Field crews are also navigating downed trees, which is restricting their access to some areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puget Sound Energy warned that the magnitude of the storm and the damages could mean that some people will go without power for multiple days. They \u201cencourage customers to make alternate plans as we work to assess the situation and restore power.\u201d The company said the biggest impact is in King County. Severe winds from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}