[1]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.