High winds batter water-logged Northwest, injuring 2 children and cutting power to half a million

Source: AP

By GENE JOHNSON
Updated 11:32 AM CST, December 17, 2025
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SEATTLE (AP) — High winds toppled trees and power lines across parts of Washington state and Idaho, critically injuring two children, knocking out power to thousands and compounding the damage already wrought by more than a week of heavy rains and flooding.

Wind gusts reaching up to 85 miles per hour battered Pullman, Washington and the Idaho cities of Moscow and Lewiston on Wednesday morning. More than half a million power customers were without power in Idaho, Washington and Oregon, according to the website Poweroutage.com.

In southern Idaho, the Twin Falls County Sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook that high winds caused several old, internally rotten trees to fall, knocking down power lines and critically injuring two children. The sheriff’s office did not immediately release additional details about circumstances that led to the injuries. The Clearwater County Sheriff’s office in north-central Idaho warned residents that most of the county’s roads were blocked by downed trees.

Western Washington residents — many in communities already deluged by flooding — reported blown transformers, downed trees and powerlines and damaged roofs in social media posts early Wednesday morning.



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