From the OPALCO website, www.opalco.com
At 5:44 p.m. April 23, the power went out in San Juan, Island, Skagit and Whatcom Counties due to a car accident on Hwy 20 near Sedro-Wooley. Bonneville Power Administration (BPA)‘s transmission line was knocked out – and at the same time Puget Sound Energy had taken a second transmission line down for planned maintenance. This brought the power capacity down dramatically and caused a cascading power failure throughout the North Puget Sound region. BPA brought power back up at about 9 p.m. and OPALCO had power restored to all members by 9:30 pm.
Before calling to report an outage, please check your fuses or circuit breakers at the electrical panel and check with neighbors to see if their power is out.
To report an outage, please call 376-3599.
After hours, outage calls are answered by the Sheriff’s Dispatch Center and OPALCO crews alerted. Information and updates on outages will be posted on this page and on the OPALCO voicemail as available. If asked to leave a message, please include your name, phone number and physical address.
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