Electricity back to normal across Clallam, utility officials report

Everybody’s electricity should be back on by now except for residents along Olympic Hot Springs Road and individual residents in the city of Port Angeles who need to do home repairs.

That’s the word from utility officials in Clallam County after Friday’s memorable windstorm that doused the lights for thousands of customers across the North Olympic Peninsula.

Residents living in isolated areas west of Port Angeles including Edgewood Drive, Cedar Grove Lane and Old Time Place were expected to have their power restored by late Monday night, the Clallam County Public Utility District reported.

Residents of the East Beach Road, Oxenford Road and Dempsey Road areas also were expected to get power late Monday.

In the city of Port Angeles, which runs its own electrical system, only about 10 to 15 homes remained without power, primarily in the area of 10th and M streets on the west side.

Clallam PUD serves 28,500 electricity customers in unincorporated Clallam County plus the cities of Sequim and Forks.

Port Angeles’ electric utility, formerly City Light, serves 9,780 customers within the 10.7-mile area inside the city limit.

Six weeks of repairs

At a meeting of Clallam PUD commissioners on Monday, Operations Superintendent Roger Hosto provided an overview of the past six weeks of winds, rain and snow, focusing on damage from the windstorm — the worst in 13 years — that hit early Friday.

Utility repair crews for both Clallam PUD and the city of Port Angeles worked virtually nonstop restoring power since Friday.

Clallam PUD crews did this stint without assistance from three Eastern Washington public utility districts that helped following two November storms.

They were busy fixing their own outages, Hosto said.

“We get nothing in 10 years, and then three incidents in a month — and it’s not even winter yet,” lamented PUD Commissioner Hugh Haffner.

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