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Severe storm blows through Boundary County with high winds, heavy rains
November 17, 2015
Severe, high speed winds along with heavy rain pounded the Northwest today, with wind gusts measured as high as 119 mph in Western Washington. Over 500,000 power company customers were without power across the Northwest area of the United States.

Parts of Interstate 90 west of Spokane were closed due to weather conditions.

Locally, according to information from Northern Lights, over 1,100 of their customers in Boundary County are without power as of this posting.

A rough breakdown is as follows:

Highway 95 Eastport area: 76
Highway 95 Mt. Hall junction to Round Prairie: 165
Meadow Creek area: 41
Highway 95 from Three Mile toward Mt. Hall: 165
Area west of Three Mile: 176
Kootenai Valley in the West Side / District 5 area: 54
Cow Creek area: 67
Naples and Elmira: 608

We do not yet have information on power outages from City of Bonners Ferry power.

Evening classes were cancelled at North Idaho College earlier this evening due to danger from high winds.

In other areas of the Inland Northwest, individuals have died from falling trees. On Spokane's South Hill, a tree fell on a woman, killing her. Another person was killed after crashing their car into a tree that had fallen across a road east of Cheney, Washington. A person is in critical condition after a tree fell on their car in the Twin Lakes, Idaho area.

The roof was blown off Spokane's SpokAnimal facility.

Schools are closed for Wednesday in some areas, with late, delayed openings at other schools in the region. A call to the Boundary County School District emergency closure number at approximately 10:30 p.m. this evening went unanswered, implying that Boundary County schools will likely be open tomorrow unless conditions change.

See the accompanying photo--a power line / telephone line blown down across a road in Boundary County.
 
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