Many Bainbridge neighborhoods still without power

Published 11:38 am Wednesday, November 18, 2015

More than 30 neighborhoods on Bainbridge Island were still without power Wednesday following the deadly windstorm that clobbered Western Washington Tuesday.

Puget Sound Energy said 220,000 customers of the utility were without power at the peak of the storm Tuesday night.

As of 8 a.m. Wednesday, there were about 600 outage locations within PSE’s service territory and roughly 100,000 customers without power.

On Bainbridge Island, neighborhoods from Agate Pass to Crystal Springs were still without electricity the day following the storm.

As of 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, more than 780 homes and businesses on Bainbridge did not have power.

Some of the largest outages were reported in Point White, with 150 homes without power, to Crystal Springs (148 homes), the Sunset Drive area (68 homes) and Manzanita (40 homes).

PSE officials said approximately 30,000 customers in Kitsap County were still without power Wednesday morning.

The company also warned that with so much widespread damage, some customers may be without power for days.

Tuesday’s storm soaked Western Washington and caused flooding in areas throughout Puget Sound. Wind gusts hit 60 mph, sending trees into power lines throughout the region.

Three deaths have been attributed to the storm. A man in Snohomish County was killed when a tree fell on his car near Monroe, and a woman in Spokane also died after being hit by a falling tree, according to news reports. A driver was also killed by a downed tree on Highway 904 near Cheney.