July 10, 2015 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 3A
Outage impacts local businesses
Usually Tsunami Sand-
wich closes for the ¿re-
works show and then re-
opens afterward. Since
they had ran out of prepped
sandwich ¿xings, they opted
to stay closed after the ¿re-
works but it didn’t affect the
restaurant too much, Posal-
ski said.
“Our sandwich shop did
Must ¿ne,” he said.
Other businesses also
found ways to make the best
of a bad situation. Denise
Fairweather’s Fairweather
House and Gallery was part
of the First Saturday Art
Walk in the Gilbert District.
“We were real fortunate
that all three of us in the Gil-
bert District kept our doors
open and actually took the
art to the street,” she said.
At SunRose Gallery, the
musicians moved outside
and they played acoustic
rather than electric music.
An artist who was sched-
uled to paint at Fairweather
House and Gallery moved
to the front entrance and
took advantage of the natu-
ral light and painted live us-
ing watercolors, Fairweath-
er said.
“We had perhaps double
the usual crowd because
people saw what we were
doing closer, rather than in
the back of the gallery,” she
said, adding, “I appreciate
the artists. Everyone stayed
and kind of thought outside
of the box and created an
event that everyone will re-
member.”
In addition to restaurants,
several grocery stores were
affected, as well.
The Seaside Rite Aid
closed during the power
outage, but customers were
able to pick up any neces-
sary items, including pre-
scriptions, from the corpo-
ration’s store in Warrenton,
said Kristin Kellum, a Rite
Aid public relations special-
ist. The store reopened Sun-
day morning with business
per usual, she said.
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As for the local business-
es, their responses to the
outage varied, along with
how they were impacted.
“I know there were busi-
nesses that lost money. But
to what level? That’s tough
to say,” Director of Tour-
ism Marketing Jon Rahl
said, adding the biggest
¿nancial impact would be
on the restaurants.
Substation failure
The holiday incident
started at 4:40 p.m. Sat-
urday when a transformer
at the Seaside substation
failed, accompanied by
some pops and smoke that
triggered a response from
Seaside Fire & Rescue,
said Tom Gauntt, a spokes-
person for 3aci¿c 3ower.
The outage affected
roughly 8,400 custom-
ers. “Pretty much all of
Seaside, Gearhart and the
southern part of Warren-
ton,” Gauntt said.
The power company
called in a specialized
crew from Portland to re-
place the transformer, ex-
tending the time it took
for power to return. Some
of the affected customers
were back on the grid by
10:06 p.m.; the rest re-
turned about 10:22 p.m.,
‘I know there were businesses that lost money.
But to what level? That’s tough to say.’
Director of Tourism Marketing Jon Rahl
Must as the ¿reworks show
concluded, sources said.
Fourth of July tends to
be one of Seaside’s busi-
est days, with thousands of
visitors descending on the
city to partake in festivi-
ties. Those who were set
up on the beach or already
checked into their rooms for
the night likely were not as
heavily impacted.
“On some level, we can
make an assessment that a
lot of those people weren’t
affected,” Rahl said.
Also, he added, “I think
it was mitigated as much as
it can, because of when the
power came back on.”
Numerous businesses,
from Rite Aid to the Human
Bean on North Roosevelt
Drive, were forced to close
early or at least for a few
hours.
Not to over-exaggerate
the importance of the hol-
iday, every day is almost
like the Fourth of July at this
point in the year, Dooger’s
Weise said. The whole sum-
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mer is busy. Still, he added,
“One of our very large days
was adversely affected.”
Manual processing,
acoustic music
The morning after the
Fourth of July, he spent
about three hours dealing
with the aftermath, or get-
ting the business’ comput-
ers back online, recovering
credit cards that were not
closed at the time of the
power outage, redoing cred-
it card charges done manu-
ally and other tasks.
At the Crabby Oyster,
also on Broadway, employ-
ees ¿nished serving those
already at the restaurant
before shutting down the
restaurant. Owner David
Posalski calculated they lost
about $4,000 to $5,000.
His other business, Tsu-
nami Sandwich Company,
fared better.
With an iPad-based point-
of-sale system, the shop was
able to keep running until
the hot soup, ice cream and
sandwich meat ran out. Al-
though, even then, patrons
could get cheese and bread.
Some did not have the nec-
essary cash, but they were
fed anyway, Posalski said.
By the end, it was nearly
95 degrees in the shop and
employees were using cell-
phones as Àashlights until
about 9:40 p.m., when it
became impossible to keep
going, Posalski said.
“We were pleased by the
time we got to the end of the
day,” Posalski said, adding
he was especially proud of
his crew for their persever-
ance.
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At the conclusion of the
parade, crowds made their
way to the Seaside Museum
on Necanicum Drive for the
Old-Fashioned Social and Si-
lent Auction, a 30-year tradi-
tion. Vendors, many of whom
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The silent auction featured
donated items from business-
es and museum supporters,
and the proceeds went to ben-
e¿t the organization. Numbers
from the event were not ¿nal-
ized as of Monday, but the
organization felt the auction
went fairly well, Seaside Mu-
seum and Historical Society
President Steve Wright said.
“The attendance was very
good, particularly in the early
hours,” he said. “When it gets
hotter and later in the day, it
slacks off some.”
The event is run by volun-
teers.
“It’s something that we
feel is a privilege to do for the
town and the visitors,” Wright
said, adding the organization
believes it’s important to pro-
vide a fun, inexpensive activ-
ity, particularly for families.
“This is Seaside’s chance to
get together with a whole lot
of friends.”
Also during the afternoon,
the Portland-based Oregon
Crusaders and two other drum
and bugle corps — Impulse
and Eruption — put on a
full-Àedged Drum and Bugle
Corps Concert at Broadway
Park.
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Seaside’s 2015 Fourth of
July Parade featured partici-
pants of all ages.
At about 5 p.m., the city
was hit by a large power out-
age. The Seaside Police De-
partment urged motorists, of
which there were hundreds,
to take their time and use
extreme caution when trav-
eling throughout town, as
intersections were also with-
out power.
Seaside’s ¿reworks show,
one of the largest in Oregon
and produced by pyrotechnics
company K-Pyro, still took
place. However, the music
K-Pyro previously and pains-
takingly arranged to accom-
pany the ¿reworks display
was not available because of
the outage. Even so, thou-
sands took to the beach and
the Promenade, or stood on
hotel balconies, to watch the
show, sponsored by the Sea-
side Chamber of Commerce.
Besides a few glow sticks
and beach ¿res, the late eve-
ning only was illuminated by
¿reworks. Combined with
smoke and haze, it created a
different sort of atmosphere
from previous shows.
Power had returned by the
end of the show, with street
lamps and traf¿c lights back
in use just in time for visitors
and locals making the long
journey home through stop-
and-go traf¿c.
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