Thousands Without Power Monday Across Puget Sound

Thousands of customers remain without power in Washington Monday as heavy rain and strong winds moved through the area Sunday.

Puget Sound Energy was reporting upwards of 25,000 outages as of 6:45 a.m. Meanwhile, Seattle City Light says it has restored power to more than 20,000 customers among 36,000 impacted by the outages.

A large number of the Puget Sound Energy outages are concentrated around King and Pierce Counties. According to the utility, areas especially hard hit by the outages are in and around Enumclaw, Graham, Issaquah, Orting, Redmond, Sammamish, Skykomish and Snoqualmie.

The utility said it is working on restoring power and have also called in crews from outside the region for more support.

So far, Puget Sound said it has restored power for some 95,000 customers.

"Today’s power outages are the result of strong winds coupled with stressed trees that still have their leaves," the utility said in an update. "In gusty winds, that means trees can topple more easily and damage power equipment, and branches can take flight and hit power lines."

Customers can check outages and estimated restoration times on the Puget Sound Energy website.

You can also report an outage to Puget Sound Energy.

Rains and strong winds are expected to continue Monday with gusts as high as 30 MPH in some areas.