Crews with Puget Sound Energy worked night and day restoring power throughout east King County after a damaging windstorm blew through the area Wednesday night. FOX13
after a damaging windstorm blew through the area Wednesday night. Several people spent Thursday cleaning up the mess of down trees that ripped out the power lines.
Gerald Tracy, spokesperson for Puget Sound Energy, said this storm blew through the northeast and southeast corners of King County the hardest. It caused more than 22,100 power outages including"It’s just go, go, go when the wind is so bad like this, trees falling down," said Alexis Hall, controlling traffic at the scenes of down power lines. "All these wires on these poles were on the ground and hanging.
Crews with the City of Maple Valley worked since Wednesday night cutting and removing about 10-12 trees from the streets. One of the trees fell onto Ann Settles’ driveway overnight, blocking traffic and taking down power lines with it.
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