PORT ANGELES — Power should be restored to all Clallam County Public Utility District customers by late today, just in time for the next storm.
Power was restored by Tuesday evening in the city of Port Angeles, which operates its own electric utility.
Dispatch supervisor Tricia Barrett said Tuesday that power was scheduled to be restored by midnight in the Blue Mountain Road, Autumn Road, Eldridge Road, Barnes Road and Monroe Road areas.
Power also was scheduled to return by midnight in the Four Seasons Park, Sandhagen Road, Eden Valley and Freshwater Bay areas, she said.
Clallam PUD is coordinating with the Bonneville Power Administration to remove dangerous trees along its 115-kilovolt line serving areas west of Port Angeles to prevent future outages, Barrett said.
Power was scheduled to be restored to the West End by 8 p.m. Tuesday, she said.
“We encourage people to contact emergency services if they are having medical emergencies or have been without water or food without three days, not to wait for their power to come back on,”‘ Barrett said.
Power was scheduled to be restored by 6 a.m. today in the Fern Road, Barr Road, John Jacobs Road, Erving Jacobs Road and isolated areas of Sequim.
Other areas expected to have their power restored by 6 a.m. included Mount Angeles, Lake Sutherland, Camp Hayden Road, Four Seasons Ranch and U.S. Highway 101 west of Lairds Corner.
Areas expected to have their power back by late today are Lake Crescent, Joyce-Piedmont Road and Olympic Hot Springs Road as well as isolated areas of Mount Pleasant Road and west of Joyce.
“Then we’ll send our crews home to get some sleep. Some of them have been up for 24 hours,” said Clallam PUD General Manager Doug Nass.
Some customers of the Crescent Water Association that serves Joyce were reported without water on Tuesday.
The generator that provide backup power to the filtration system at the association’s water plant burned out an alternator,
Another generator must be rented from Seattle until replacement parts arrive.
Bonneville Power Administration spokesman Mike Hansen said both power lines serving Nippon Paper Industries USA paper mill in Port Angeles went out Monday night and one was restored at 2:27 a.m. Tuesday.
The mill was running on Tuesday.
Bonneville’s Port Angeles-Sappho line was restored at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday, Hansen said.
It was knocked out by a tree about 33 miles west of Port Angeles, he said.
The state Department of Transportation reported that State Highway 117, the Tumwater Truck Route, was reopened at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Heavy snow, downed trees and multiple collisions continued to make travel difficult on U.S. Highway 101, especially east of Port Angeles.
In Port Angeles, all residential streets had been cleared once and all the arterials were cleared as of late Tuesday afternoon, said Public Works Director Glenn Cutler.
“We’re pretty much in good shape. We’re removing trees from some areas, continuing to sand roads and getting to a lot of the secondary streets,” he said.
“The light operations crews got a full night’s sleep. The street crews are still turning and burning. We’re putting additional emphasis on school areas within the city,” he said.
The runways at William R. Fairchild International Airport were cleared by about 2 p.m. Monday and Kenmore Air Express is operating, said Airport Manager Jeff Robb.
Snowplowing began about 3 a.m. Monday with the crew working a 12-hour shift, removing up to six inches of snow, he said.
“We’ve been in full operation since,” Robb said.
Robin McHattie, acting manager at Kenmore Air, said the airline had experienced some delays Tuesday but no flights were canceled.
Some flights were canceled Monday night of an ice storm that included lightning, she said.
“Our Monday evening flights didn’t make it. All our flights Tuesday have gotten out. They have just been delayed.
“The first one was delayed three hours, then the next one by about an hour,” McHattie said.
The ground shuttle between Boeing Field and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport also is continuing to operate despite the weather conditions, she said.
Telephone and fiber optic service continued operating throughout the storm but some Wave Broadband customers reported losing cable television service.
The company’s recorded information line said that as of 3:40 p.m., the storm had affected all services — telephone, cable television and Internet — in Clallam County and due to the outage’s severity no estimate was available for when they might be restored.
