STORM IN KY
Winds cause a few outages
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Students and parents get buffeted by a wind gust as they leave Bellbrook Middle School's science fair on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 11.This time, Mother Nature's bluster was more of a nibble than a bite.
Nearly five months after the remnants of Hurricane Ike knocked out power to nearly 225,000 Dayton Power & Light customers, high winds on Wednesday, Feb. 11, left about 10,000 in the dark in scattered parts of the Miami Valley.
Outages were reported in Sugarcreek Twp. about 8 p.m., where two vehicles were trapped under power lines that draped over both after a large tree took down two utility poles near South Alpha Bellbrook Road and Stutsman Road.
There were no apparent injuries, as firefighters and linemen rescued the people in both vehicles, said a DP&L lineman at the scene who asked that his name not be used.
Traffic along South Alpha Bellbrook was blocked as late as 11 p.m.
Outages also were reported in Kettering near the Town and Country Shopping Center about 8:30 p.m., as well as in neighborhoods in Lewisburg, New Lebanon, Farmersville, Greenville and Jamestown, according to DP&L.
Despite some calls for arcing wires and downed tree limbs, Dayton police and the Montgomery County sheriff's dispatch reported few weather-related incidents.
Power also was reported out in parts of Clark County.
Heavy rains pounded the Miami Valley between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. with a total of 63-hundredths of an inch, said the National Weather Service.
A tornado watch for much of the Valley expired at 9 p.m. Winds that gusted to 55 mph were expected to die down about 5 a.m. today, meteorologist Myron Padgett said. Northern Kentucky saw some of the worst damage, which included hail.
Today, Feb. 12, winds of 18 to 36 mph will usher in highs in the 20s, the weather service said.
