(Undated)– Damage assessments continue to come in following Monday night’s severe weather that brought 80 to 90 mph wind to portions of the region. In Dickinson county, Emergency Management Coordinator Mike Ehret says the heaviest damage was reported in Lake Park…
“Numerous large branches down throughout the town. At least one home I know for sure had some slight damage; a branch hit the corner of the roof there and caused some damage there on one home in town. I know Milford from last night had a few branches down blocking some streets and so forth. One in Terril, I believe, we had last night. Checking with the cities this morning, for the most part everybody’s doing okay. Spirit Lake, Okoboji, Arnolds Park didn’t have anything to report. Didn’t have anything from Superior. I think the winds pushed into the west side of the county probably 60, 70 plus miles an hour and then fortunately as they continued east they kind of started to die out and so that was fortunate. For the most part the central and eastern part of the county didn’t have too much for damage.”
Ehret encourages everyone to exercise caution while cleaning up…
“If you’re cleaning up today just be careful. If you’re using chainsaws, power tools, whatever. If you have branches and tree limbs down just double and triple check that there’s no power lines tangled up in them. If there are, just leave them be. Contact the utility company. They’ll come out and take care of it for you. Don’t assume the lines are dead.”
More showers and thunderstorms are in the forecast tonight (Tues.) with the possibility of a couple of those becoming severe as well.
