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Powerful Storm Kills Three In Washington
A state of emergency has been declared in Washington after a powerful storm killed three people and cut power to more than 350,000 residents.
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At least three people have died and hundreds of thousands were without power on Tuesday as a severe storm packing high winds unleashed across the Northwest.
Lea Anne Scott, 54, died in Spokane; a man in his mid-20s was killed when a tree crushed his vehicle in Snohomish County and the third victim, 70-year-old Carolyn Wilford, died from head injuries after a tree landed on her auto on Highway 904 southwest of Spokane.
According to the National Weather Service, flood warnings were in effect for several areas in Washington.
More than 360,000 customers were left without power in the Puget Sound region late on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson). Debris from the beach below is tossed up and over a seawall by wind-blown waves and toward traffic Tuesday, November 17, 2015, in the West Seattle neighborhood of Seattle.
BC Hydro spokesman Ted Olynyk said trees and branches falling across power lines were responsible for most of the outages.
Public schools were closed in Spokane, nearby Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and smaller districts.
The Cheney and Spokane campuses of Eastern Washington University closed Tuesday afternoon because of high winds.
North of Seattle, along roads that traverse the Cascade mountains, a mudslide blocked State Route 20 and downed trees and flooding closed parts of U.S. Route 2, the Department of Transportation said.
The National Weather Service has forecast rain and wind for much of the week (see video that leads off this article for forecast details).
At this hour, 113,000 of the 139,000 customers without at this point are in Spokane County.
Utilities said the number of customers without power remained in the six digits early Wednesday, and it could be days before power is fully restored. In Spokane, winds topped out at 71 mph; 101 mph in Bonner County, 67 mpg in Kootenai County and 82 mph in Shoshone County.
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The utility company said the aftermath of the Tuesday’s storm is the largest crisis they have experienced in the company’s 126-year history, and that the entire region has been significantly impacted.