Uprooted trees lead to power outage
By Edgar Kelley, The Inter-Mountain
ELKINS, W.Va. — High winds in Randolph County — which were recorded at 74 mph at one point Sunday afternoon — uprooted trees and destroyed a brick dugout structure at Elkins High School before ushering in yet another winter snow storm Sunday night.
According to the National Weather Service in Charleston, Elkins had the highest wind gust in the state on Sunday at 74 miles per hour. The gust was recorded at 12:48 p.m. in the afternoon at the Elkins Airport.
High winds Sunday afternoon brought down several trees throughout the city, leaving some residents without power.
Sizable trees were reported down on Center Street and in the area of 10th Street, with residents in those areas still without power Monday afternoon. According to the Randolph County Office of Emergency Management’s Facebook page, First Energy/Mon Power was working on restoring power to 516 customers in Randolph County as of 12:30 p.m.
“The highest gust of winds in the state on Sunday was in Elkins and it was at 74 (mph),” NWS meteorologist Gabe Wawrin told The Inter-Mountain Monday. “We also had some gusts reported at Snowshoe that were in the 60s. The winds were due to a front moving through, and as the showers and snow moved through along the front, it kind of helped to transfer some of the higher winds down to the surface.”
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