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Damage assessed following June 8 derecho; several local municipalities respond to restore power to Haxtun community

Waking up on Tuesday morning was like a dream, a really bad dream. Storms that struck the Haxtun area on Monday night, June 8 and into the early morning hours of Tuesday, June 9, tore through the community, ripping up entire trees, knocking out power and causing damage some say can only come from tornados, although there was no official sighting of one.

Some reports from the weather service have indicated the damage was from a derecho, a straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms. Derechos can cause hurricane-force winds.

While there was no off...

 

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