Truck snags electrical wires on Aurora, pulling down poles and lines
Monday, May 6, 2024
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| The red and green truck snagged a power line. Photo by Bruce Miller |
Traffic was at a total standstill on Aurora Sunday evening May 5, 2024, starting about 4:00pm when a truck with high load snagged lines while southbound on Aurora Ave N at about 141st St in North Seattle.
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| Photo by Bruce Miller |
The lines pulled down four or five poles, both metal and wood.
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| Aurora was shut down for hours. Photo by Bruce Miller |
The road was closed in both directions.
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| The truck that caught the wires Photo by Bruce Miller |
Amazingly, no one was injured but traffic was at a standstill for hours.
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| Just one of the poles that came down Photo by Bruce Miller |
It was quite a mess. Along three blocks of Aurora, poles were leaning, broken, touching the street, with wires blocking businesses and draped along the road
Seattle City Light was on scene at 10:30pm, replacing poles. The road was reopened at 1:50am, almost four hours later.
updated 5-7-2024
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2 comments:
What is it moving, a house?
Bummer. Hope the wires were where they were supposed to be. - My City Light bill already high- hope there is insurance somewhere so us customers don't pay the entire cost to fix the mess
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