2,500 Clallam County PUD customers lose power; wind suspected as cause

PORT ANGELES –– Power was out Sunday afternoon for about 2,500 Clallam County Public Utility District customers, said spokesman Michael Howe.

Howe said at about 5 p.m. there was a transmission line issue and that crews were working to locate the problem.

He said high winds were the suspected cause of the outage and there wasn’t yet an estimated time that power would be restored.