UPDATE
Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — A faulty breaker at a Clallam County Public Utility District substation is believed to have caused an outage that knocked out power to 1,600 customers east and south of Port Angeles today.
The outage started at about 10:57 a.m. and affected areas around Gales Addition east of Port Angeles and near Mount Angeles Road, south of the city limit.
Power was fully restored at 1:05 p.m.
Power had briefly been restored for eight minutes at 11:50 a.m. before being lost again.
Clallam County sheriff’s deputies and state troopers directed traffic on U.S. Highway 101 from Monroe Road to Kolonels Way, where Walmart is located.
Undersheriff Ron Peregrin said around noon that traffic had been mildly impacted.
EARLIER STORY
PORT ANGELES — A power outage has blacked out traffic lights east of Port Angeles.
Clallam County Public Utility District spokesman Mike Howe said this morning that the stop lights are out at the intersection of U.S. Highway 101 and Monroe Road.
Other traffic lights in the area may also be impacted, he said.
Howe said the outage occurred at about 11 a.m.
He said at 11:15 a.m. it will take at least an hour to fix.
About 1,600 customers are affected in the areas around Gales Addition and Mount Angeles Road.
The cause is unknown.
