Deadly Northwest Storm Traps Idaho Miners, Causes Sewage Spill in Puget Sound
The Weather Channel 1/14/2021 Ron Brackett
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The Pacific Northwest was still reeling Thursday morning from a deadly storm that triggered landslides, toppled hundreds of trees and caused widespread power outages.
More than 150,000 homes and businesses in Washington and Oregon were still without electricity early Thursday, according to poweroutage.us. Another 49,000 customers in Idaho and Montana were also in the dark.
The power outages were being blamed for failures at wastewater treatment plants in Washington that caused more than 11.2 gallons of untreated sewage and wastewater to be spilled into Puget Sound in Seattle, according to the Kitsap Sun.