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Electricity went out in greater La Conner Friday, perhaps after 10 p.m., and was restored within hours within at least parts of the town. Around greater La Conner 584 customers lost power: 540 around Peth’s Corner, and 44 on Josh Wilson Road near Bayview.

Skagit County totaled approximately 4,600 outages during the storm, with the majority of those outages occurring in western Skagit county where there were high winds.

Winds rose from 11 mph at 7 p.m. Friday to 28.4 mph at 9 p.m., reaching sustained speed of over 35 mph in the 10 p.m.-1 a.m. period. Winds continued to gust between 18.5 mph-27.8 mph till 3 p.m. Saturday and remained as high as 15.9 mph, measured at WSU’s research station on Memorial Highway west of Mount Vernon.

Gusts reached 26.1 mph in the 12 a.m. hour Sunday and continued to rise to as high as 22.5 mph at 10 a.m. Sunday, with winds blowing between 10.5 mph-18.3 mph through 5 p.m.

There was not much rain, only 0.1 inch after 5 p.m. Friday and no rain Saturday measured at the Mount Vernon station..

By Sunday evening, fewer than 60 customers were without power and all Skagit County accounts were restored by Monday morning.

Staff report about 115,000 customers without power at the peak of the storm. Whidbey Island was hardest hit in the PSE service area, but most customers had power on by Monday night.

Nearly 1,000 storm response personnel worked on outage restoration efforts.