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Thousands without power in Tumwater on Monday morning

A power outage was reported on Puget Sound Energy’s website just before 4 a.m. Monday, affecting more than 2,000 people in Tumwater.

According to PSE’s outage map, the outage was caused by trees and vegetation. But a representative with PSE said it was actually caused by an equipment failure.

The estimated restoration time was 8 a.m. Monday, according to the outage map.

This story was originally published January 3, 2022 at 8:04 AM.

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Ty Vinson covers the City of Olympia and keeps tabs on Tumwater and other communities in Thurston County. He joined The Olympian in 2021. Before that, he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism at Indiana University. In college, he worked as an intern at the Northwest Indiana Times, the Oregonian and the Arizona Republic as a Pulliam Fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
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