Remember all those power outages we had in September and October? Well, things were looking good on that front; we hadn’t had an outage in Queen Anne – other than the one City Light scheduled on October 26 for repairs – in over a month. And then, just when we thought we were home free, the wind knocked some trees into some wires, and Queen Anne was struck with another outage last Thursday, November 5.

About a month ago Seattle City Light held a public meeting for Queen Anne residents to discuss the frequent outages and what they were doing to solve the problem, which included spending several weeks replacing four to six blocks of underground cable in the vicinity of 8th Ave W and W Galer that was “in need of attention.” This is supposed to be completed by the end of 2009. City Light employee Mike Eagan writes,

The planned replacement underground cable will be installed from W. Galer through the alley between 6th & 7th W. for two blocks, then down the hill (west) on W. Blaine to 10th W. There will not be any planned outages for this work, though it will be noisy and dirty and disrupt access to the alley at times.

And although the outage last week was due to weather and not the repair work, City Light will be holding another public informational meeting tomorrow, Tuesday, November 10 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Queen Anne Library to discuss this work and address any concerns community members may have.