The high winds that whipped through our area left a path of destruction on both sides of Lake Washington. Trees and phone lines were toppled and scaffolding collapsed at a construction site.
The punishing winds caught a lot of people off guard around the Sound, stop lights were singing, trees bending, one reached its breaking point on Mercer Island and came crashing down into a home. The one person who was inside at the time wasn’t hurt. But, the family will have to stay somewhere else tonight because their house is no longer safe.
In the Phinney Ridge area of North Seattle the wind undid someone’s hard work ripping apart the scaffolding outside this apartment building. Keith Brondson says he knew something bad was about to happen when he heard the wind.
“I live on the 3rd floor I heard the wind buffering through and making the tarps billow and they were causing the whole scaffolding to bang against the building,” said Brondson.
Brondson says it came down so hard it took some bricks from the side of the building with it.
“So, it was really noisy with the tarps flapping it was worse and when I came down I was going on an errand I called the contractor cause I was concerned,” said Brondson.
No one was hurt and crews had it cleaned up by dark. It was a blustery interruption to the start of the work week and perhaps a sign of the wild weather to come.
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