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Thousands of residents in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood were without power Monday morning, and again in the afternoon because of equipment failure, according to Seattle City Light. Seattle City Light reported 7,325 residents were without power about 2 a.m. in the area bordered by East Mercer Street, Interstate 5, East Pine Street and 22nd Avenue East. Power…

Update 9:25 a.m.: Seattle City Light says that two customers in Burien remain without power this morning. A City Light spokesman said power is expected to restored shortly before 11:30 a.m. Update 7 a.m.: Seattle City Light estimates about 3,500 customers are still without power in Northeast Seattle after a tree caused an outage. Seattle City Light said power…

Weather: Wind and rain throughout the day; and in the mountains, wind and snow. The National Weather Service forecast. Seahawks: Not sure you heard, but there is a game today. After all the flag-flying and face-painting and 12th Man hoopla, Seattle and New Orleans finally play. Channel 13 at 1:35 p.m. — and lots…

UPDATE, 4:30 p.m. | City Light says the outage was caused by a problem with an underground cable and that power was restored at 2:30 p.m. ORIGINAL POST | A power outage that affected some 9,700 homes and businesses in Queen Anne, Fremont, Magnolia and Ballard for the last 45 minutes is being repaired. but 1,400 customers remained…

UPDATE 8:50 P.M.| Power has been fully restored to more than 43,000 people, according to Seattle City Light. Investigators are still searching for what caused the breaker failure at about 5:30 p.m. today. The approximate outage area was bounded by Northeast 123rd Street, Aurora Avenue, Lake Washington and Northeast 35th Street. UPDATE 8:03 P.M.| City Light is…

UPDATE 3:30 P.M.| Everything but the right, westbound lane of Denny Way has reopened in time for rush hour. King County Metro’s Route 8 bus line, which was going to be rerouted through the evening, is back on its regular route. Seattle Department of Transportation spokeswoman Marybeth Turner says there may be a few…

UPDATE: 10:10 p.m. After an evening that saw more than 20,000 customers lose their power due to storms that swept through the city tonight, Seattle City Light reports that its on its way to restoring power to the remaining 1,300 customers who are still without it. City Light said most of the power was restored within five hours…

Nearly 490 Seattle City Light customers in the Highline area between White Center and Burien are still without power after a car hit a pole at 3:30 Saturday morning. Originally some 2,900 customers were without power, said a spokesman for the utility. City Light said power is expected to be restored by 2:30 Saturday afternoon to all…

Power was restored to some 7,300 Seattle City Light customers who were without it for about an hour in Southeast Seattle this morning. The cause of the outage isn’t immediately available.

Update, 8:30 p.m. Power was quickly restored to almost all homes and businesses Tuesday evening, according to Seattle City Light. By 8:15 p.m., just 75 customers were still without power, the utility announced in a news release. Officials were working to replace seven damaged transformers to restore power to those buildings. Original post, 6:58 p.m. Nearly 5,000 West Seattle homes…