Bikefrog

Well, the wind speed picked up Friday, as we had wind gusts up to 78 mph. This blew over quite a few trees, and caused quite a bit of property damage.

Power lines were down all over Walla Walla. This tree fell a block from my house.

This power pole snapped like a twig.

The front of this house was smashed pretty badly.

A smashed car.

According to the Walla Walla Union Bulletin

“Miraculously no injuries have been reported to emergency responders as a direct result of the storm.”

More Walla Walla windstorm pictures can be found here.

The weather today is much warmer than the sub-freezing weather earlier this week. The tradeoff for the warm temperature is that now we have a windstorm. Weather.com shows the following weather for Walla Walla:

The morning commute took a few minutes longer than usual. A 50 mph blast really slows the bike down.