The intersection of Anderson and Glenoma roads was shut down by a tangle of power lines. / Courtesy photo by Elizabeth Graf
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Powerful winds ripped through Lewis County over the weekend, leaving some without electricity for as long as 30 hours.
A patch of cottonwood trees toppled in Glenoma on Saturday, knocking out power to every substation up through the east end, according to Lewis County PUD.
“We had pretty good gusts of wind on Saturday,” PUD Assistant Dispatcher Bryan Myers said. “It didn’t last very long, but if affected Glenoma, Randle and Packwood.”
At one point, as many as 4,000 customers were out, he said.
Utility crews were assisted by Centralia City Light.
The storm caused scattered outages elsewhere around the county, but by this morning the electricity was back on, according to Myers.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
your a crazy old Man…..aren’t ya
Nice little training exercise for the end of the world. 24+ hours without electricity. No watching the gaddarn Cable TV for the addicted. Cell phones went dead when the tower batteries discharged – no texting no surfing for the addicted. Same with the internet. First went down the cable internet and then the DSL when the telephone central office batteries when dead.
Store had to dump all of it’s frozen food and meat and deli counter was empty.
I was happy on my generator. Wouldn’t have even fired it up but my housemate likes the womanly comforts. Have enough canned food, rice, flour, ammo, etc. to last quite a while but I realized that I need to stock up on some other stuff before the end of the world.
For one thing, I don’t have enough beer. I want to be able to drink beer for at least a month after the end of the world.
Cant’ wait for the next one. Usually we get about 3 power outages each fall. If it’s the end of the world we will have to prepare for all of the refugees an zombies from the goddarn city.