The Associated Press
SEATTLE — Tens of thousands of people remained without power after windstorms struck parts of Washington state and Oregon over the weekend.
Approximately 30,000 Puget Sound Energy customers were still without power as of noon Monday.
The utility said on Twitter that workers had restored power to more than 288,000 customers since the height of the storm. Seattle City Light had about 1,000 customers without power as of Monday morning.
The storm’s impacts on the North Olympic Peninsula were minimal, with a small number of outages reported on public utility district outage maps Sunday.
In Oregon the lights were back on for most people.
The storm caused Alaska Airlines to ground flights between 4:20 a.m. and 5:15 a.m. Sunday after a power outage in the Seattle area, where its operations are based. Twenty-seven flights were delayed and five were canceled.
The National Weather Service reported winds included gusts of more than 60 mph at the storm’s peak Saturday night and early Sunday morning.
