Several hundred homes still without power on Bainbridge

Published 8:50 am Sunday, August 30, 2015

Hundreds of people on Bainbridge Island went the night without power following a powerful late summer windstorm that swept across Puget Sound Saturday.

Puget Sound Energy reported Sunday that roughly 87,000 customers in the Puget Sound region were still without power.

On Bainbridge, the largest ongoing outage is on the southeastern end of Port Madison, where 275 homes were without electricity. The power there went out just before 4:30 p.m. Saturday. PSE said a repair crew is onsite.

A total of 31 separate outages, many affecting just one or two homes, were reported just after 8:30 a.m. Sunday on Bainbridge.

PSE reported on Twitter that crews worked through Saturday night to restore power, and workers were out “in full force” Sunday.

Sixty line crews and 16 tree crews have been called out, with some workers coming from British Columbia to help restore power.

Fallen trees are to blame for most of the outages.

The hardest hit areas, according to PSE, were Whatcom and Skagit counties, and north King County.