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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (ferrell{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Wed Feb 25 2004 - 21:01:17 EST
FULL STORY:
<http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2004/02/25/news/00_storm_040225.txt>
QUOTES:
"Mother nature lashed the Lodi area today when the skies opened and dumped
a deluge of rain. But it was the high wind that was the bigger issue. The
wind felled utility poles, caused numerous car accidents and even directly
caused Kettleman Lane in Lodi to be closed in both directions for two hours.
At about 8:30 a.m., Lewis was dispatched to a call of a fallen redwood tree
into a house in the 500 block of East Elm Street. He witnessed firefighters
rescue the woman trapped in her bedroom under debris including insulation
and broken ceiling joists. Nearby, Public Works crews were cleaning up
another downed tree in the 200 block of East Pine Street. It fell atop a
parked pick-up truck. Another two blocks away, Police Partners were
guarding the Pine Street railroad crossing where a gate had snapped and was
lying on the roadway. At that time, a freight train traveling along the
tracks over Kettleman Lane hit a utility pole knocked over by high winds
near Stockton Street. The force of the impact pulled utility lines from
other nearby poles.
About 159,000 PG&E customers in the company's service region, which runs
from Bakersfield to the Oregon border, had lost power at some point this
morning, spokeswoman Christy Dennis said.
Fierce wind and heavy rain also pelted the Sacramento area, where a section
of Interstate 5 in Yolo County near Sacramento International Airport was
flooded, and traffic was diverted early this morning, CHP Officer Don Oxley
said.
Fronds from giant palm trees litter the ground in the 400 block of North
Church Street today as winds reached speeds in excess of 50 mph during the
worst storm to hit the Lodi area this year.
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