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Seattle's Hidden Power Crisis | Seattle News
Seattle’s power grid is crumbling under the weight of 1960s beautification decisions that buried aging cables without proper protection—now costing over $2 billion to fix and taking at least 15 years. Wealthy neighborhoods paid part, but taxpayers footed the bulk, creating a modern facade with a rotten foundation. Residents like Anna Romanova are paying the price with frequent blackouts disrupting health, education, and daily life. City Light, long focused on keeping rates low, now faces a massive backlog: repairing underground cables, upgrading dams, building new substations—and preparing…
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