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Puget Sound Energy summarizes storm damage and restoration after November "bomb cyclone"
Summary
Puget Sound Energy officials told the Woodinville City Council that the November storm damaged substations and transmission lines across the region, cut power to hundreds of thousands of customers and required large, multi‑state restoration crews; the utility described steps to improve grid resilience while acknowledging outage‑map errors during the event.
Puget Sound Energy emergency-management staff told the Woodinville City Council that the November “bomb cyclone” caused widespread damage across the company's service territory and required an unprecedented mobilization to restore power.
"We had nearly 554,000 customers system wide impacted throughout the event," Mary Hovde, Puget Sound Energy emergency planning manager, said during a presentation. Hovde described more than 2,100 damaged locations, about 52 substations knocked offline, and hundreds of miles of transmission lines affected in mountainous and hard‑to‑reach terrain.
Utility representative Matt Larson likened the electrical grid to a highway system and explained the…
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