A powerful autumn windstorm swept across Western Washington on Saturday evening, November 7, 2026, severing electrical service to more than 115,000 homes and businesses throughout the Puget Sound basin.
Snohomish County Public Utility District documented over 12,000 outages across Marysville and Lake Stevens, while Peninsula Light Company reported approximately 6,000 darkened accounts spanning Gig Harbor and the Key Peninsula.
Restoration dispatchers cautioned that while automated switching restored power to several major hospital and commercial zones within two hours, individual lateral lines serving residential side streets required physical wire stringing and pole replacement operations that continued into Sunday morning daylight hours.
Saturday through 4:00 a.m.
Route 12 interchange following a complex collision involving downed trees across active travel lanes.
A powerful autumn gale cut electricity to more than 115,000 customers across Western Washington, toppling trees and straining emergency utility crews in Puget Sound.