Over 140,000 Portlanders Without Power After Ice Storms Down Lines

An estimated 140,000 business in Portland metro area remained but energy on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. While this is an alleviation over a 300,000 — 30 percent — of Portlanders are but electricity as a ice-induced outages went from widespread to historically bad on Monday.

Despite a tough work of some-more than 2,500 energy association workers, Portland Gas and Electric could not yield an guess of when utilities would be restored. For some households and businesses, it was their fourth day but power.

Meanwhile, 50 miles south, another 60,000 in Marion County did not have power.

The charge began on Thursday night when temperatures dropped, and sleet began to fall. By Sunday morning, scarcely 18 inches blanketed a city, and statewide, hundreds of thousands of households were but power. The National Weather Service likely an ice charge would strike a segment for Monday night.

After a ice charge Monday, Portland saw a high of 40°F, and a sleet began to melt. As a state began to puncture out of a ancestral storm, correct crews continue to work tough to correct 21 delivery lines that were knocked out, and some-more than 6,000 downed energy lines remained down as of a final news on Tuesday morning.

Damages from mixed ice and snowstorms were not singular to a electrical grid. Trees and powerlines were damaged, many of them downed, causing fraudulent transport in a region. Dozens of streets were sealed as a result. Major sections of I-84 were sealed to trade due to dangerous conditions.

Two businesses in a Portland metro area news their roofs had partially collapsed. The Cherry Creek Safeway in Troutdale and a Les Schwab tire store in Southeast Portland. Customers were inside a grocery store during a time, one chairman postulated teenager injuries, and a cleaning organisation transient mistreat during Les Schwab.

The family of a blank Portland male is acid for answers after a car mislaid control, strike an embankment, and careened off of a Glenn L. Jackson Memorial Bridge on Sunday night. The overpass on I-205 spans a Columbia River between Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. Authorities still had not located a car as of Tuesday night. The blank man’s family stays but an answer until it is recovered.

A domicile in Gladstone, a Portland suburb, suffered a good tragedy perplexing to keep comfortable after their energy failed. Six people were treated for CO monoxide poisoning due to a gas-powered generator in an adjoining building. Four of them upheld away, and dual sojourn in vicious condition.

The Oregon Department of Health and Human Services announced Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients whose food marred during a energy outages or other charge repairs competence ask deputy assistance. On Tuesday, a group settled households that accept SNAP have 10 days from a date their food went bad to ask help. For some-more information, check out a state’s website during oregon.gov/dhs/assistance/food-benefits/pages/replacement%20-benefits.aspx.

Written by Cathy Milne-Ware

Source:

The Oregonian: Hundreds of thousands but energy in a Portland area as ice charge brings down trees, energy lines; by Kale Williams
The Oregonian: More than 140,000 sojourn but energy in Portland area as charge repairs comes into crook focus; by Kale Williams
Willamette Weekly: Last Night’s Ice Storm Caused a Largest Power Outage in Oregon History; by Shannon Gormley
KGW8: Search continues for a car that went over Glenn Jackson Bridge guardrail on I-205
KGW8: 4 passed from CO monoxide poisoning over a weekend in Clackamas County

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