Wild weather causes outages around the county

Monday's blustery weather met power lines in a head-to-head match.

Numerous outages occurred throughout the day, but most customers in PUD1 had power back by the afternoon, according to General Manager Kristin Masteller.

"These were all small tree and limb related outages due to the high winds today. All relatively quick fixes," she told the Journal in an email.

Crews made repairs from Brinnon to Union, she said, logging driving hours between Bee Mill, Finch Creek, Galloway/Point Whitney and Duckabush south.

PUD3's outages affected over 1,000 customers during the day, with most problems occurr...