Weather-related headaches continue with gusts causing power outages

Another storm cell swept across Western Washington Sunday evening, causing strong gusts and downed power lines.

SEATTLE — A restaurant in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood kept serving up tacos Sunday despite an outage that left thousands of people without power. 

A gusty Sunday meant a busy evening for utility workers. Around 5 p.m., more than 26,000 Seattle City Light customers were without power, and that number did not include the thousands of Puget Sound Energy customers impacted.

The company blamed strong gusts for downing trees and power lines across the western Washington.

The weather-related headaches came after a chaotic thunderstorm that brought lightning

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