Roughly 21,000 homes and businesses were still without power Monday afternoon following Sunday’s deadly windstorm.
In an update Monday, Puget Sound Energy said it had 62 crews working to restore power and those teams would continue to work around the clock until power is restored.
In Kitsap County, 10,000 PSE customers were powerless Monday afternoon.
On the island, nearly 2,000 homes were still without electricity Monday afternoon.
The largest outages remain on the north end of Bainbridge, north of Day Road to the Agate Pass Bridge, near Manitou Beach, and on the south end of the island.
PSE reported just after noon that power is expected to be restored on Bainbridge’s north end by 2 p.m. Monday.
Electricity is not expected to be restored until just before midnight Tuesday, March 15 in the Battle Point and Manitou Beach areas.
Sunday’s windstorm — which is blamed for the death of a Seattle man who was killed Sunday when a tree in Seward Park crushed his SUV — cut power to more than 176,000 PSE customers at its high point on Sunday.
The storm was the second in a week that left Bainbridge powerless. Strong winds knocked trees and heavy branches into transmission lines serving Bainbridge on Thursday, prompting an all-island power outage March 10.
Storm-related calls kept emergency responders busy Sunday.
Bainbridge Island Fire Department Chief Hank Teran said the department received 16 storm-related calls Sunday, from downed power lines to fallen trees to fire alarms that malfunctioned when the power went out.
Most of the calls came between 1 and 8 p.m., when gusts of more than 50 mph swept across Bainbridge.
The city of Bainbridge Island also opened its emergency operations center Sunday.
“The significant amount of weather-related issues started to die down about 8 at night and went back into our regular responses mode,” Teran said.
Teran said the Sunday storm was very similar to last Thursday’s.
“In some ways this storm seemed to hit a little bit harder,” he said.
Still, the entire island didn’t lose power, Teran added.
