10 traffic signals, 7 roads and 4 water wells in Lacey affected by midweek storm
The mid-week storm that rolled through Thurston County wasn’t as big as the ice storm of 2012, or the microburst of 2017, but it was still significant for the region and Lacey, the city’s public works director reported to the Lacey City Council on Thursday.
The rain and wind storm knocked out power throughout the region just before midnight Wednesday, leaving 27,500 Thurston County residents without power later that day, according to Puget Sound Energy.
In Lacey, 10 traffic signals lost power, seven roads were closed and four water wells lost power, although most residents didn’t know the wells lost power because it happened in the middle of the night, Public Works Director Scott Egger said.
Generators were used to power the traffic signals and wastewater lift stations, he said.
A section of College Street Southeast remained closed until about 6 p.m. Wednesday after part of a tree fell across the street. It took longer to reopen College Street because the downed tree was tangled in power lines, Egger said.
Eight inches of rain has fallen so far this month, which caused a creek to rise and flood Rainier Road near the Horizon Pointe neighborhood south of Yelm Highway.
The relatively new stormwater ponds near Chambers Lake fared well in the storm and had no capacity issues with the extra stormwater, Eggers said.
This story was originally published January 15, 2021 at 5:45 AM.
