Windstorm 2015 by the numbers
POWER
180,000: Avista Utilities customers without power at peak after the windstorm.
369,000: Total number of Avista electric customers in North Idaho and Eastern Washington.
100,000: Peak Avista outage during ice storm in 1996.
40,000: Peak Avista outage after July 23, 2014 storm.
48,000: Peak Avista outage after Aug. 2, 2014 storm.
99203: South Hill ZIP Code in an area described as ground zero by Avista CEO Scott Morris.
83: Percentage of 99203 ZIP Code still without power five days after storm.
500: Linemen from contractors or outside power agencies assisting Avista’s effort to restore power.
873: Miles traveled by San Francisco-based PG&E utility crew that came to help restore power (if the crew used route including Interstate 5 and U.S. Highway 97).
73: Calls about natural gas concerns that Avista responded to in a 12-hour period during and after the windstorm.
26: Severed gas lines Avista found during that 12-hour shift.
0: Number of gas ignitions cause by windstorm.
23: Severed gas lines Avista responded to in all of November 2014.
(800) 227-9187: Number to call immediately if you smell gas.
32,694: Members (customers) of Inland Power and Light without power at peak (5 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18).
40,270: Total Inland Power and Light members.
13,000: Inland members without power at peaks after each of two thunderstorms in the summer of 2014.
10,000: Inland members out at peak during ice storm in 1996.
364: Inland members still out at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24.
7: Number of Inland 3- or 4-person crews that worked to restore power.
15: Contract crews or crews from other electric companies that worked to restore Inland’s power.
168: Miles traveled by Milton-Freewater, Oregon, Electric Department crew to start helping restore Inland’s power.
5,600: Customers of Vera Water and Power in Spokane Valley without power at peak.
10,800: Total number of Vera customers.
51.9: Percentage of Vera customers without power at peak.
35: Percentage of Vera customers without power at peak during ice storm in 1996.
198: Hours it took to restore power to all Vera customers after the windstorm.
236: Hours it took to restore power to all Vera customers after 1996 ice storm.
9: Vera poles replaced after windstorm.
6,800: Customers of Modern Electric Water Company in Spokane Valley without power at peak.
10,000: Total Modern customers.
100: Percentage Modern customers restored by 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22
12: Linemen and water workers who worked to restore Modern’s power.
0: Number of contract or other outside workers who worked to restore Modern’s power.
13,000: Kootenai Electric Cooperative members without power at peak.
20,000: Total number of Kootenai Electric Co-op members.
128: Kootenai members still out on the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 24.
13,000: Members of Northern Lights Inc., based in Sagle, Idaho, without power at peak, all of whom were restored by the evening of Sunday, Nov. 22.
19,000: Total Northern Lights members.
40+: Total Northern Lights poles replaced.
500,000: Estimated cost, in dollars, to fix Northern Lights’ windstorm damage.
30: Northern Lights linemen who worked on outages, in addition to 3 contract linemen.
6,500: Customers of Pend Oreille Public Utility District without power at peak.
8,000: Total Pend Oreille PUD customers.
3:20: Time in the afternoon that Pend Oreille PUD finished restoring final outage on Monday, Nov. 23.
15: Linemen who worked to restore power to Pend Oreille PUD customers.
32: Shift, in hours, of the first Pend Oreille PUD crews to respond to outages.
17: Shift, in hours, of Pend Oreille PUD crews after initial response.
54: Percentage of homes and businesses in North Idaho and Eastern Washington that experienced power outage from the windstorm (counting Avista, Inland Power and Light, Vera, Modern, Pend Oreille Public Utility District, Northern Lights and Kootenai Electric customers or members).
STREETS
817: Trees downed by storm and counted by Wednesday, Nov. 25, in city of Spokane street right-of-way.
62: Intersections in city of Spokane with traffic lights without power at peak after windstorm.
9: Number of those intersections with traffic lights still without power on Monday, Nov. 23.
4: Number of those intersections that were working with a generator.
7: Generators powering traffic lights stolen after windstorm.
2: Number of stolen generators recovered.
3: Days stoplights did not work at Mission and Ruby, though it was on at a couple periods before it was fully restored on Friday.
25,000: Average daily northbound traffic on Ruby at Mission.
6: Days after storm it took to remove tree tangled in wires blocking 14th Avenue near Roosevelt Elementary School.
106: “Critical red” signs (stop, yield or do not enter signs) blown down or broken and fixed in city of Spokane as of noon Wednesday, Nov. 25.
338: Street sign assemblies (two attached street name signs at intersections) blown over in windstorm in city of Spokane. City officials say, however, this is likely only about half the actual number that fell. The signs are designed to give way when struck by a car.
DEBRIS
4,124: Visits to drop off storm debris at Spokane’s North Side Landfill and Waste-to-Energy Plant through Monday, Nov. 23.
1,627: Tons of debris measured by city’s waste system through Monday, Nov. 23. Statistic does not include debris left at city property on North Foothills Drive that will be dealt with later.
2,100: Tons of debris dropped off at Spokane County’s Colbert and Valley transfer stations through Monday, Nov. 23.
PARKS
28: Estimated number of trees downed or seriously damaged at Riverfront Park.
100: Riverfront Park’s acreage.
30: Trees lost at Comstock Park in south Spokane.
24.75: Acreage of Comstock.
21: Number of trees, mostly ponderosa pines, lost at Patrick S. Byrne Park in North Spokane.
3: Acreage of Byrne Park.
SCHOOLS
5: Number days of school canceled because of windstorm in Spokane Public Schools.
5: Number days of school canceled by district in aftermath of December 2008 winter storm.
3: Number days of school canceled by district in the aftermath of ice storm in 1996.
36: Number of Spokane Public Schools schools without power or phone service or both day after storm
54: Number of schools in the district.
7: Estimated number of trees that fell on schools in the district.
HELPING OUT
400: Volunteers that showed up to go door-to-door in city of Spokane effort to check on people without electricity.
7,200: Doors knocked on by city volunteers Nov. 19 through Tuesday.
2,648: Number of free breakfasts provided by Spokane Public Schools at five locations Nov. 20 through Nov. 24, though the free meals continued for several days after.
3,977: Number of free lunches provided by school district Nov. 20 through Nov. 24.
200: Estimated number of volunteers matched by Catholic Charities Spokane with people who needed help or special equipment because of the storm.
58: Average number of men sleeping most nights after the storm at the House of Charity, on top of the usual 109.
500: People served free pizza at House of Charity by David’s Pizza on Nov. 19.
COMMERCE
10: Estimated hour in the morning the day after the windstorm that Miller’s Hardware on 29th Avenue sold out of batteries.
3 1/2: Estimated number of years it normally would take Miller’s to sell the amount of batteries that it sold from Nov. 17-24, thanks to hardware distributor Jensen Distribution Services sending additional batteries.
70: Estimated percentage of ice cream lost at Mary Lou’s Milk Bottle on Garland Avenue in three-day power outage (though a larger supply of Mary Lou’s ice cream at a different location was saved).
200+: Number of Honda generators ($900 to $5,000) sold by Spokane Power Tool after the windstorm through Tuesday, Nov. 24, often by employees wearing headlamps and using paper-to-pen invoices.
50.1: Percentage of downtown Spokane hotel rooms occupied on Monday, Nov. 16.
77.1: Percentage of rooms occupied on Tuesday, Nov. 17, the night of the storm.
95.4: Percentage of those rooms occupied on Wednesday, Nov. 18.
99.90: Average cost of a downtown Spokane hotel room, in dollars, the week of Nov. 8-14.
102.83: Average cost of downtown Spokane hotel room, in dollars, the week of Nov. 15-21.
30: Estimated percentage of rooms booked for Mirabeau Park Hotel in Spokane Valley for the evening of Nov. 18 booked prior to Nov. 18.
4: Number of hours it took to sell out the 235-room hotel the morning of Nov. 18.
100: Occupancy rate at hotel Nov. 18-22.
91: Occupancy rate at hotel on Nov. 23, the first time since the windstorm the hotel did not sell out.
100: Occupancy rate at Hotel Ruby, Ruby2 and Montvale Hotels on Nov. 18 - 21.
15: Rooms closed for renovation project that were reopened to accommodate windstorm guests at Montvale Hotel.
645: Rooms at Red Lion Hotel at the Park and Red Lion River Inn filled from Nov. 18-22.
645: Total rooms at the two hotels.
70: Estimated number of people in line for donuts at peak at the Donut Parade on Hamilton Street, which never lost electricity, the day after storm.
0: Amount of flour remaining at Donut Parade after windstorm doughnut rush.
PUBLIC SAFETY
9: Percentage increase in crime the week of the windstorm compared to the week previous.
2,389: Calls to Spokane County 911 between 1 p.m. and 11 p.m. the day of the windstorm.
804: Calls to Crime Check, the non-emergency line for Spokane County 911 between 1 p.m. and 11 p.m. the day of the windstorm.
619: Number of incidents that crews were dispatched to in that period.
100: Structures checked by Spokane firefighters since storm to determine structural integrity.