Lane County spared worst of high winds.Byline: From Register-Guard and news service reports A wind and rain storm touted as the worst this season slammed into Oregon and Washington this weekend, bringing down trees and power lines and killing at least one woman in southwest Wash- ington. Damage was minimal in Lane County, where the high winds and heavy rains that began around midnight Saturday caused scattered outages that left thousands of Lane Electric customers without power. About 2,500 customers lost power in the Oakridge area when a tree fell into a Bonneville Power Administration The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is a U.S. self-financed federal agency which transmits and sells wholesale electricity in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana. The BPA is part of the U.S. Department of Energy, and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. transfer line about 1 a.m. Saturday. Crews restored power by 5 a.m., Lane Electric spokesman Dave D'Avanzo said. Another 1,000 Lane Electric customers in the Veneta, west Eugene, Dexter, Lowell, Fall Creek Fall Creek is the name of several places in the United States:
The McKenzie River is a tributary of the Willamette River, 86 miles (138 km) long, in northwestern Oregon in the United States. It drains part of the Cascade Range east of Eugene into the southernmost end of the Willamette Valley. areas were without power in the early morning hours. Most of them saw electricity restored by 5:30 a.m., D'Avanzo said. About a dozen Creswell-area customers briefly lost power when a tree fell on a transmission line on Wills Road, he said. Northeast of Springfield, crews spent the better part of the day clearing a tree that fell across Camp Creek There are over one thousand places in the United States named Camp Creek, including several hundred streams: Streams Georgia
Most of the storm's fury focused on the Evergreen state, where at least 160,000 homes and businesses were in the dark. Most were not expected to have power restored until midday today. A Kalama woman - Ingrid J. Davis, 38 - died while driving near the Wahkiakum-Cowlitz County line in southwest Washington when a tree fell on her car, the Washington State Patrol reported. The storm forced closure of the floating bridge that takes State Route 520 across Lake Washington Lake Washington is the second largest natural lake in state of Washington (after Lake Chelan) and the largest lake in King County. It is bordered by the cities of Seattle on the west, Bellevue and Kirkland on the east, Renton on the south and Kenmore on the north, and surrounds east of Seattle for the first time in nearly seven years. High water, heavy winds and a mudslide prompted a 48-hour shutdown of passenger rail service north of Seattle. Washington State Ferries
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And Seattle's zoo shut down because of concerns that winds would topple trees. In the coastal town of Westport, the Grays Harbor County Emergency and Risk Management Office said some waterfront motels were evacuated as a precaution. KBKW Radio in nearby Aberdeen said several boats broke loose from their moorings in Westport overnight. Some small campers were blown into the water, and the seawall seawall: see coast protection. that protects the marina suffered minor damage, the station reported. About 20 miles south of Aberdeen, some parts of Raymond were under 2 feet of water, KBKW reported. Traffic in downtown Raymond was limited to emergency vehicles. The National Weather Service said it had received reports of 45 mph winds in Seattle, with gusts over 50 mph in West Seattle. Gusts of more than 60 mph were reported in Jefferson County on the Olympic Peninsula. Gus Melonas, a spokesman for Burlington Northern Santa Fe, said the railroad ordered a 48-hour shutdown of passenger rail service between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, at 1:25 p.m. Saturday because of a mudslide. Forecasters said the weather would begin clearing up today, after a chance of early morning showers. The forecast calls for drier conditions throughout the rest of the week. ``We're going to return to a quieter weather pattern," said Chris Collins, a meteorologist at the weather service's Portland office. |
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