Hail, rain soak Springfield area.Byline: Diane Dietz The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - A hard, localized storm hit parts of Springfield about dinnertime on Friday night. Pea-sized hail pelted downtown for up to 10 minutes, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the National Weather Service. Black clouds dumped a deluge on homes and gardens as rain fell for 20 minutes at the rate of 2 inches-per-hour. About the same time a couple of miles farther east on 43rd Street, a bolt of lightning hit a telephone pole, creating smoke but no perceptible damage. And across the Willamette River Willamette River River, northwestern Oregon, U.S. It flows north for 300 mi (485 km) into the Columbia River near Portland. Oregon's most populous cities are in its valley. The Fremont Bridge, a steel arch with a main span of 1,225 ft (373 m), crosses the river at Portland. in north Eugene, an electrical transformer blew, leaving a neighborhood in the dark. Springfield "just happened to be hit by a little thunderstorm thunderstorm, violent, local atmospheric disturbance accompanied by lightning, thunder, and heavy rain, often by strong gusts of wind, and sometimes by hail. and a decent rainfall," meteorologist Charles Dalton said. The hail stopped traffic on Main Street, Springfield police Sgt. John King said. Drivers pulled to the side and waited for the storm to pass. "It was nice to see them do that because they weren't running into each other," he said. Homeowners complained of flooded streets, sidewalks and garages in areas of east Springfield - probably the result of clogged drains made apparent by the first hard rain of the season, King said. Communities on either side of Springfield escaped the squall. The storm didn't register at the Eugene Airport Eugene Airport (IATA: EUG, ICAO: KEUG), also known as Mahlon Sweet Field, is a public airport located 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Eugene, in Lane County, Oregon. weather meters, and by the time the weather got to Walterville it dropped only two-tenths of an inch, Dalton said. Residents in Eugene's Willakenzie neighborhood, however, lost electrical power at about 7:15 p.m. when an electrical feed to a transformer failed. "They don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. why," EWEB EWEB Eugene Water and Electric Board (Oregon) communications coordinator John Mitchell said. "Sometimes it's a squirrel. Sometimes it's a limb." He said weather might have been a factor. Mitchell couldn't immediately say how many homes lost power, but the outage was localized to blocks west of Coburg Road and South of Beltline Road. Crews could restore power to some of the homes immediately, but for others it would take about three hours, he said. Today should see a drying trend through Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. , when another typical rainy front is expected to sweep through the metropolitan area. |
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