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In the aftermath of Tuesday's storm . . . |
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November 20, 2015 |
Power continues to be out for approximately 50
households in Boundary County in the wake of
Tuesday's high velocity winds and driving rain
storm that swept through the Pacific Northwest,
including northern Idaho and Boundary County.
Although this is much improved from the 1,000+
Boundary County homes that were without power
the night of the storm--about a quarter of all
households in the county--it is still making
things difficult for those 50 or so homes who
are still affected in this the third day since
the storm hit. Especially so with our late
November temperatures predicted to be in the 30s
during the daytime, dropping into the 20s at
night for the next few days.
Yesterday, Northern Lights reported over 5,000
homes and businesses in their Idaho panhandle
and western Montana service area were without
power. Today they report they continue to work
through the night, and have successfully
restored service to over 2,000 of those homes
and businesses, and continue to work on the
remainder.
Northern Lights reports, however, that they are
unable to project exactly when power will be
restored to those remaining homes and
businesses. "Due to the high volume of outages,
Northern Lights is still unable to provide
individual estimates on restoration time. If
your power is out please call the NLI outage
line at 1-866-No-Lites 1-866-665-4837. Thank you
for your continued patience," the company said
in a press release.
We have not received information on power
outages in the City of Bonners Ferry service
area.
Aside from the power outages, other damages
locally from the storm were somewhat severe for
the individuals involved. "Boundary County
survived the recent wind storm in much better
shape than areas to the south of us," said Dave
Kramer, Boundary County Emergency Coordinator,
in a press release.
Mr. Kramer continued, "Early on we had a tree
across Highway 95 at milepost 494, forcing
highway closure while the tree was removed.
"Boundary County had a couple structures damaged
from the wind. A new structure that was in the
framed-only phase at General Feed and Grain blew
down, destroying the structure; two homes in
Bonners Ferry had
trees blow down onto the homes, no injuries. We
had several trees blowing down throughout the
County and knocking out power in some
locations."
The next couple of days in Boundary County are
predicted to be sunny with high temperatures in
the mid-30s and lows in the mid-20s. However, by
the middle of next week, forecasters are calling
for Boundary County temperatures dropping to
mid-20s for the highs, dropping into the teens
at night. |
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