Seattle City Light says that one outage occurred around 11:30 p.m.

The exact cause is unknown, but power was restored to the Home Headquarters of The B-Town Blog in the Three Tree Point neighborhood just before 6:30 a.m.

Crews are responding to identify the exact locations, assess causes, and make repairs.

Customers can get outage information online at www.seattle.gov/light/sysstat.

The Weather Peeps originally had the advisory ending at 9 p.m. but have extended it to midnight. They say we can expect gusts up to 45MPH, and to expect some trees and branches to come down, possibly knocking power out.

So get all your email, blog commenting and Facebook stuff done quickly folks!

Here’s the full advisory:

…WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT PST TONIGHT…

* SOME AFFECTED LOCATIONS…SEATTLE…TACOMA…AND BREMERTON.

* TIMING…GUSTY WINDS THIS EVENING WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT.

* WIND…SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WIND 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH.

* IMPACTS…LOCAL DAMAGE TO TREES AND POWER LINES…WITH SMALL TREES POSSIBLY BEING TOPPLED DUE TO SATURATED SOILS OR RECENT ICE DAMAGE. LOCAL POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE. FALLING TREES AND TREE LIMBS COULD CAUSE INJURY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS OF 45 TO 57 MPH ARE LIKELY.

Here’s the 7-day forecast:

Overnight: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 40. Southwest wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Wednesday: Showers likely. Cloudy, with a high near 46. Southwest wind between 11 and 16 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Wednesday Night: Rain. Low around 40. South southwest wind between 7 and 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.

Thursday: Showers. High near 41. South wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Thursday Night: Patchy fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low around 30. Calm wind.

Friday: Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 41.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 33.

Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 40.

Saturday Night: A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 36.

Sunday: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near 46.

Sunday Night: A chance of rain. Cloudy, with a low around 39.

Monday: Rain likely. Cloudy, with a high near 45.

Monday Night: Rain likely. Cloudy, with a low around 37.

Tuesday: Rain. Cloudy, with a high near 44.

Here’s the latest advisory, issued at 8:55 p.m. Friday night (Jan. 20):

…WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 10 AM PST SATURDAY…

* SOME AFFECTED LOCATIONS…EVERETT…SEATTLE…TACOMA…OLYMPIA.

* TIMING…SOUTH WINDS WILL INCREASE LATE TONIGHT AS A STRONG TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES ACROSS THE AREA.

* WIND…SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH.

* IMPACTS…GUSTY WINDS MAY SNAP TREE BRANCHES AND CAUSE LOCAL POWER OUTAGES. AREAS WITH TREE AND LIMB DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE ICE STORM MAY SEE NUMEROUS ADDITIONAL FALLING LIMBS. BEWARE SNAGS WHICH ARE LIKELY TO FALL WHEN THE WIND INCREASES OVERNIGHT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH OR GUSTS OF 45 TO 57 MPH ARE LIKELY.

Oh, and did we forget to mention that they also issued a ‘Flood Advisory,’ in effect until Saturday afternoon:

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SEATTLE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR RAIN AND MELTING SNOW IN…

CLALLAM COUNTY…
ISLAND COUNTY…
JEFFERSON COUNTY…
SAN JUAN COUNTY…
SKAGIT COUNTY…
WHATCOM COUNTY…
KING COUNTY…
KITSAP COUNTY…
LEWIS COUNTY…
MASON COUNTY…
PIERCE COUNTY…
SNOHOMISH COUNTY…
THURSTON COUNTY…
GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY…

* UNTIL 330 PM PST SATURDAY.

* AT 331 PM PST RAIN GAGE REPORTS AND NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED MODERATE RAIN OVER MOST OF THE ADVISORY AREA. AMOUNTS RANGE FROM OVER AN INCH IN THE SOUTHWEST WHERE THE RAIN BEGAN SEVERAL HOURS AGO TO A FEW HUNDREDTHS OR ZERO TO THE NORTH WHERE THE RAIN IS JUST GETTING STARTED.

LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WITH OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL OVERSPREAD THE ENTIRE AREA TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY. TOGETHER WITH MELTING SNOW OVER THE LOWLANDS…EXPECT PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND IN NEIGHBORHOODS. STORMWATER WILL POOL IN THE SNOW COVER BEFORE EVENTUALLY MELTING AND RUNNING OFF. IN ADDITION…THE SNOW COVER AND ICE COULD BE BLOCKING STORM DRAINS AND/OR CULVERTS WHICH COULD ALSO RESULT IN EXCESSIVE PONDING OF WATER OR CAUSE SMALL STREAM TO OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS.

RUNOFF FROM THE RAIN AND MELTING SNOW WILL INCREASE THE POSSIBILITY OF LANDSLIDES AND DEBRIS FLOWS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

CLEARING NEARBY STORM DRAINS COULD HELP LESSEN THE PONDING OF WATER.

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.

And here’s the latest 7-day forecast:

Overnight: Rain. Temperature rising to around 40 by 5am. South wind between 16 and 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

Saturday: Showers likely, mainly after 4pm. Cloudy, with a high near 46. Windy, with a southwest wind between 22 and 30 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Saturday Night: Showers likely, mainly before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Southwest wind around 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Sunday: Rain. High near 44. Southeast wind between 6 and 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.

Sunday Night: Rain. Low around 38. South southeast wind around 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.

Monday: Showers likely. Cloudy, with a high near 43. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Monday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers. Cloudy, with a low around 37.

Tuesday: Rain. Cloudy, with a high near 47.

Tuesday Night: Rain. Cloudy, with a low around 37.

Wednesday: Rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 51.

Wednesday Night: Rain. Cloudy, with a low around 37.

Thursday: Showers. Cloudy, with a high near 48.

Thursday Night: Showers likely. Cloudy, with a low around 35.

Friday: A chance of showers. Cloudy, with a high near 46.

Seattle City Light experienced multiple outages throughout its service territory, starting about 11:15 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 25, when a cold front moved through the area causing wind gusts of 50 mph. At the peak of the windstorm approximately 18,000 customers were without power.

PREVIOUSLY: BTB Reader Carrie Baggaley Rasmussen texted us these pics, taken by her husband Justin, of a large tree down across SW 152nd near the Ruth Dykeman Center, felled by a Christmas Day storm, which also caused scattered power outages in the Burien area.

As you can see in the foreground, a car was also damaged by a fallen telephone pole.

Seattle City Light says that more than 7,000 homes and businesses were affected by the storm, with some of the largest outages in the SeaTac and Burien area – here’s a map showing the outages:

“Crews are responding to identify the exact locations and causes of the outages and then will make repairs,” City Light said in a statement.

Customers can get outage information online at www.seattle.gov/light/sysstat.

If you have any photos of other storm damage, please email us and we’ll try to post them (in-between eating and visiting with family…).

The National Weather Service released a ‘Wind Advisory‘ Monday (Nov. 21), warning residents of south winds from 20 – 30 mph with gusts between 45 – 57 mph through Noon Tuesday.

So batten down your blue tarps Burien, and make sure you’re ready, as “winds tonight through Tuesday morning could topple small trees or cause local power outages,” according to the weather peeps.

According to noted UW Meteorologist Cliff Mass:

A VERY serious storm is going to hit the Northwest during the next two days–one that will cause flooding and coastal wind damage.

And the urban areas are doing to experience a deluge.

Folks, this will be a major event.

Here’s the Wind Advisory, as of 4:54 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21:

… Wind Advisory remains in effect until noon PST Tuesday…

* some affected locations… Stanwood… Everett… Seattle…  Renton… Bellevue… Bremerton… and Tacoma.

* Wind… increasing from the south at 20 to 30 mph with gusts as high as 50 mph overnight… then decreasing Tuesday morning.

* Timing… the strongest winds are expected to occur between 10 PM tonight and 7 am PST Tuesday.

* Impacts… winds this strong can topple trees and cause local power outages.

Precautionary/preparedness actions…

A Wind Advisory is issued when sustained winds of 30 to 39 mph or gusts of 45 to 57 mph are likely. Winds this strong can snap small tree branches… topple small or shallow rooted trees… and cause local power outages.

And if that’s not enough, a Flood Watch was also issued for Tuesday morning through Wednesday night:

… Flood Watch in effect from Tuesday morning through late Wednesday night…

The National Weather Service in Seattle has expanded the

* Flood Watch to include a portion of western Washington…  including the following counties… King… Lewis… Pierce…  Snohomish… Thurston.

* From Tuesday morning through late Wednesday night

* rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches tonight and Tuesday as the snow level rises to around 6000 feet… then another 1 to 3 inches of rain Tuesday night and Wednesday as the snow level gradually falls to around 3000 feet.

* Rivers facing the greatest threat of flooding include the Newaukum… Chehalis… Puyallup river near Orting… Snoqualmie…  and stillaguamish.

* If flooding does occur… it will probably be relatively minor.

Precautionary/preparedness actions…

A Flood Watch means conditions are favorable for flooding but flooding is not imminent or occurring. Monitor the latest forecasts from the National Weather Service and be ready to act quickly if flooding is observed or a warning is issued.

And here’s the latest forecast:

Late Afternoon: Rain. High near 49. Breezy, with a south wind around 22 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Tonight: Rain. Low around 44. Breezy, with a south wind between 21 and 28 mph, with gusts as high as 41 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.

Tuesday: Rain. The rain could be heavy at times. High near 53. Windy, with a south wind 29 to 32 mph decreasing to between 6 and 9 mph. Winds could gust as high as 48 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

Tuesday Night: Rain. The rain could be heavy at times. Low around 41. South southwest wind between 6 and 9 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 90%.

Wednesday: Showers. High near 46. South wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.

Wednesday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 36.

Thanksgiving Day: Rain likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 46. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Thursday Night: Rain likely. Cloudy, with a low around 37.

Story by Scott Schaefer
Photos by Bob Seaton

On a windy Wednesday afternoon (Sept. 28), an 18-foot motorboat broke away from its mooring buoy off the north side of Burien’s Three Tree Point neighborhood and ended up getting slammed repeatedly against a concrete retaining wall before being rescued.

Nobody was on board at the time, and there were no injuries to humans.

However, the boat didn’t fare so well.

“It got pretty chewed up – both sides were damaged with heavy scarring and scraping from bow to stern,” said Capt. Nick Stivers of Vessel Assist, the company that rescued the boat. “Even the steel anchor roller was busted and bent.”

After breaking off its anchored buoy sometime in the afternoon, the unmanned vessel floated in to shore and came to rest against a concrete paving wall, where wind and waves battered it.

“These kind of rescue jobs are very common,” Stivers added. “It’s very typical, especially during transition periods between summer and fall when the wind comes – people aren’t always ready for when that first blow comes in, and sh*t happens.”

The good news out of all this? The boat never ‘turtled,’ or turned over, which Stivers said is common, and often causes much more damage.

“This particular boat was a Gig Harbor-produced Tiderunner that didn’t ‘turtle’,” Stivers said. “It just filled with water, so when we pulled it away from the scene, we just pumped the water out and towed it to CSR Marine in Des Moines. If it had turtled it would’ve cost a whole heck of a lot more to rescue.”

Stivers said the boat’s owner contacted Boat US, a AAA-style service for boats, and their dispatch center called him and he responded.

The boat apparently came loose after its rope frayed and broke from the mooring buoy. Waves some three to four feet high didn’t help matters.

“Ropes can fray pretty quickly in rough seas,” Stivers said. “Boat owners should be more aware of this.”

The cost to rescue a boat can be pretty high too – Stivers’ minimum day rate starts at $240 per hour, with a 4-hour average rescue time.

Area resident Bob Seaton shared these pics of the boat:

Editor –

As I was sitting at my computer and watching the trees in the wind Thursday afternoon, I heard an odd noise coming down the street. It was a neighbor’s canvas carport making a desperate run for freedom. I’d seen it cruelly tied to some concrete blocks and forced to endure all of our miserable winter weather with no protection. However, in its unhealthy state and still dragging those awful concrete blocks, it was harassed by traffic and managed to make it onto the shoulder, where it expired.

Soon its owner showed up. With the help of a buddy and showing no respect for the deceased’s body, he proceeded to tear it apart, limb by limb. I managed to get some photos and hope someone can contact the SPCCC and report this horrific abuse.

- Lee Moyer

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Thursday’s powerful windstorm knocked out power to some 2,840 residents in the Burien/Normandy Park neighborhoods.

According to Seattle City Light, power went out around 6:30pm and was restored for most customers around 7:30pm.

City Light says the boundaries of the Burien outage were:

• On the north: S 96th St.
• On the south: SW 172nd St
• On the east: 24th Ave S.
• On the west, 33rd Ave SW

Not all customers within these boundaries were affected.

Crews are working to restore the few outages that remain.

For up-to-date outage info, check this City Light website out: http://powerlines.seattle.gov

Fortunately the power stayed on to process the video and get it uploaded!

How are conditions where you are on this windy evening?

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A “High Wind Warning” is in effect until 8pm tonight, and here’s the latest alert from the National Weather Service:

Statement as of 3:05 PM PST on March 10, 2011

… High Wind Warning in effect until 8 PM PST this evening…

The National Weather Service in Seattle has issued a High Wind Warning which is in effect until 8 PM PST this evening. The Wind Advisory is no longer in effect.

* Some affected locations… Everett… Seattle… Tacoma… Olympia… North Bend… and Montesano.

* Winds… south winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts 60 mph until the early evening hours. Winds easing to 15 to 25 mph after 8 PM and to 10 to 15 mph after midnight.

* Impacts… winds this strong can cause some power outages as well as topple trees. The potential for downed trees is greater due to the saturated soils in the area.

Precautionary/preparedness actions…

A High Wind Warning means that a hazardous wind event is imminent or occurring. High winds can topple trees… down power lines… and destroy property.

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