Press "Enter" to skip to content

Power outage hits north Ferndale neighbors

Whatcom News file graphic.

Update 12:35pm: PSE reports power has been restored to all but 9 of their customers in the area.

Update 12:15pm: PSE reports the cause as “trees/vegetation” and have set the estimate for restoring power to 2pm.

outage map from pse 2016-02-18 1116
Click to enlarge.

Original story:
About 11:15am today, over 800 Puget Sound Energy (PSE) customers around Ferndale and Custer lost power according to PSE.

The area impacted is shown as red in the map provided from PSE.

The estimation of when power may be restored is 1:30pm which is the standard estimation of about 2.5 hours from the time the outage was reported. The cause remains under investigation.

My custom footer text