Puget Sound Energy finished restoring electricity Thursday to all customers who lost power in the past week in winter snow, ice and wind storms, spokeswoman Terri-Ann Betancourt said.
“Yes, it’s over for now,” she said. “What a week.”
Out-of-state line crews are going home. The utility is adding up all the damages, but that could take weeks or months for a final figure, Betancourt said.
Tens of thousands of customers claiming a $50 credit for being out of power for five full days should see that on bills starting in mid-February, she said.
Puget Sound Energy was the biggest and hardest hit utility in Western Washington. Crews restored service to more than 400,000 PSE customers or more than a third of all its electrical customers — some of them more than once.
But it’s hard to say where this ranks in the history of outages.
“This storm was different from any other storm PSE has managed because it wasn’t one storm,” Betancourt said. “It was one storm, then another storm and in a few days another storm.”
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