— from OPALCO.com —
Sunday, November 26th @ 11:05 pm: Power restored.
UPDATE: Sunday, Nov 26th @ 7:15pm: The OPALCO crew now estimates power restoration for Orcas, Shaw, Blakely and Crane by 10:00 pm tonight. They have installed two new transmission poles and restrung wire on seven spans – about 1/2 mile. They are finding storm damaged insulators on the seven poles that remained standing – and it’s taking time to safely rebuild each span – especially in the dark. Thanks for your patience!
Sunday, November 26th @ 12:30pm: Power outages across San Juan County. Issue with OPALCO’s main feed from BPA on Lopez. Both OPALCO and BPA crews responding.
Sunday, November 26th, 9:35am: Opalco has a crew of 9 men working to restore power to Shaw, Orcas, and any other areas that are out of power. Today two poles broke on Shaw Island and the crew is working on getting power restored as fast as they can. Estimated time of restoration is approximately 4:00pm.
Sunday, November 26th, 8:00am – The crew is working on restoring power to Shaw, Blakely, Crane and Orcas Islands. Estimated time of restoration is approximately 4:00pm today.
Sunday, November 26th, 2017, 4:15am – We are currently experiencing an outage that is affecting all of Shaw Island and Orcas Island. Our crew has been dispatched and there is no estimated time of restoration. We will keep our phone and website up to date as we receive more information.
Thank you to the crew for your hard work I am curious as to why the poles fell down, did something fall on the poles or were they
ready for a replacement ?