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Portland General Electric crews finish repairing a power line near Faragate Street and Brown Island Road on Sunday. The crew also cleared debris and fixed broken insulators.
Area recovers power after storm
JONATHAN BACH
STATESMAN JOURNAL
Efforts continued Sunday to reverse
damage from a windstorm that battered
the Pacific Northwest over the weekend
when remnants of a typhoon surged over
the region, downing trees and cutting
electricity for thousands.
Crews worked through the night re-
storing power to Portland General Elec-
tric customers after strong winds
caused more than 70,000 people to expe-
rience outages around Oregon on Satur-
day.
Early Sunday morning, only about
4,000 customers were still without pow-
er, the electricity company said in a
statement. In Marion County, outages af-
fected only 194 people, down from the
more than 7,000 Saturday. In Polk Coun-
ty, power outages affected 70, down
from more than 2,400.
“Salem was hit early and hard,” said
Stan Sittser, a PGE spokesman. Four
electrical feeder lines, which serve en-
tire neighborhoods and hundreds of peo-
ple, were down in Salem during the
worst part of the day. Now, as 52 crews
work to restore power across the state,
outages are mostly relegated to remote
areas like the foothills of Mt. Hood. Sitts-
er said the company hoped to have power
fully recovered by Monday.
Mike Gotterba, a spokesman for Sa-
lem's public works department, said
crews would be out removing woods
from downed trees from Saturday’s
storm.
"We're having a much quieter day
(Sunday)," he said. While Public Works
had received calls in South Salem of
drinking water brownage, causing the
department to flush lines, Gotterba said
that problem could happen independent-
ly of a storm.
Winds of 52 mph were reported Satur-
day at McNary Field station in Salem,
said Matthew Cullen, a meteorologist
with the National Weather Service. At
higher elevations, they reached more
than 60 mph. Damage was fairly evenly
distributed from south to north along the
Oregon coast and from Marion County
up to Portland.
Storm systems like Hurricane Mat-
thew that surge over the Southeast of the
country tend to differ structurally from
those here in the Northwest. While hurri-
canes usually have a denser concentra-
tion of high winds, storms that break off
from tropical typhoons over the Pacific
generally have winds spread out over a
broader area, said Cullen.
It's rarer that the continent is hit by
the same typhoon that pushes across the
Pacific. Rather, a typhoon will dissipate
as it sweeps northward and transition
into another system. "It's not the same
system that tracks all the way across,"
said Cullen, though there have been ex-
ceptions.
Forecasts for Saturday's storm were
mostly accurate, he said, though the sys-
tem ended up tracking more westward
than expected. Salem residents rode it
out in their own manners, though, with
some saying it wasn't so bad after all.
Steven Harrington, a homeless veter-
an, described the storm in two words:
Steven Harrington,
62, a homeless
veteran, finds
shelter from the
rain under an
awning in
downtown Salem.
Harrington was
accompanied by his
dogs Archie and
Hanky.
"Cold, wet." He weathered it under an aw-
ning at the Marion Parkade parking ga-
rage. He has two dogs — Archie and Han-
ky — and a shopping cart, which he said
didn't flood with the rain. On a scale of
one to ten, Harrington gave the storm an
eight. "I've seen a lot of storms," he said,
but guessed the weather would've hit
Portland harder.
Andrew Rice, a math teacher at Regis
High School in Stayton, went to Portland
around 1 p.m. and didn't return until Sun-
day. His roommates told him they lost
power for about an hour, though. The
wind picked up and trees fell near his
South Salem home, but "I thought it was
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He wasn't the only one who braved the
drive north. Melissa McGuire, 39, had a
concert to go to at Portland's Moda Cen-
ter. Sugar Hill Gang and Ludacris were
playing the venue, and rain on the high-
way didn't stop her going.
The roads were fine, the concert was
packed, she said. Plus, her tickets were
free.
"When life throws you a free concert,
you've gotta get there," she said.
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