Lightning? Reports of explosion in CD appear to be another transformer strike

A dozen or so scattered outages in the Central District appear to be related to Wednesday night’s cold, rainy and lightning storm-y weather. According to City Light’s service map, more than 200 are without power tonight in Seattle — most in the Central District. In past storms, City Light has told us that lightning-related outages are extremely localized to the area of the strike. If that’s the case this night, a few of you around 23rd and Union got an interesting jolt.

As of 7:45 PM:

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  1. …and the power stayed out until round 5am I’m guessing it was…the lightening sure fried that transformer!

  2. City Light crew was out at 2 AM replacing our transformer. Great to see them on the job!

  3. I have never heard lightning/thunder shake the house like it did last night. I wonder if it was the transformer explosions I was feeling. I figured they were just striking the radio towers.