{"id":13398,"date":"2010-11-16T17:27:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T01:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/windstorm-knocks-out-power-to-parts-of-kent-most-areas-restored\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T00:40:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T07:40:37","slug":"windstorm-knocks-out-power-to-parts-of-kent-most-areas-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/windstorm-knocks-out-power-to-parts-of-kent-most-areas-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"Windstorm knocks out power to parts of Kent; most areas restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 3,000 customers were without power in Kent after a windstorm blew through town Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those customers were still without power Tuesday morning but most had power restored by Tuesday evening. An estimated 600 customers remained without power in Kent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some customers could be without power into Wednesday evening but most in King County will have it back by Wednesday night,&#8221; said Roger Thompson, Puget Sound Energy spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Winds gusted up to 49 mph and blew steady at about 36 mph just before 10 p.m. Monday in the Seattle area, according to Weather Underground at wunderground.com.<\/p>\n<p>More than 140,000 PSE customers were without power because of wind-related damages to power wires between the Canadian border and Olympia at the peak of the storm. About 110,000 customers had power restored by 4 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The South Sound and South King County took the brunt of the damage,&#8221; Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 12,000 customers were without power at the peak of the storm in South King County, which includes Kent, Renton, Covington, Maple Valley, Auburn, Federal Way and Enumclaw.<\/p>\n<p>PSE crews were worked throughout the night Monday. The agency also called in about 30 crews from British Columbia, Oregon and Idaho to help restore service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 3,000 customers were without power in Kent after a windstorm blew through town Monday night.<br \/>\nMany of those customers were still without power Tuesday morning but most had power restored by Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13398"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}