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ENLARGEPacific Power employees work to free a Ford pickup owned by Jim Baxter on the 200 block of Pine Avenue in Canyonville Tuesday afternoon after a large branch fell on the vehicle. Baxter’s neighbor Dan Putnam said that at around 3:30 p.m., a large gust of wind blew through the neighborhood. That’s when he decided to move his car parked on the street, suddenly "I heard a large snap", Putnam said. A large branch had snapped and fell on the power lines adjacent to the home where Baxter lives, and landed on top of his truck. The truck received minor damages thanks to a power line that cradled the falling branch. Power outages were reported throughout the neighborhood as well as parts of Canyonville, as a result of the snapped power lines.
CANYONVILLE — Jim Baxter has been worried for a while now that the towering cedar tree on his property that dropped a branch onto a car a couple years ago might eventually do more damage.
On Wednesday, as gusts of wind and rain moved through the area, his concerns turned to reality when an estimated 40-foot long branch snapped off and headed straight for his pickup and another car parked on South Pine Street.
Luckily for him, but not so luckily for the power company or its customers, the power lines caught the branch and saved the vehicles.
Suspended by the lines, the branch dangled overhead.
“There was a little bit of damage to the truck,” Baxter said, “but nothing significant.”
The downed line knocked out power to nearly 250 customers around 2:55 p.m., said Monte Mendenhall, regional community manager for Pacific Power. It was restored for some around 4:30 p.m. and for everyone by about 5:40 p.m.
Pacific Power uses a contract arborist to make sure trees aren’t branching out too closely to power lines.
Baxter and the company have been back and forth in recent years over who is responsible for certain parts of the tree. The arborist most recently had found the tree didn’t pose an imminent threat to the lines.
However, Mendenhall said there’s always a potential that branches or trees can fall even when they’re outside the designated clearance radius of three to four feet.
Wednesday’s storm, which brought rain, wind and a snow advisory for parts of the county above 2,000 feet, has passed.
However, officials say another storm is on the way, and is expected to move in early Friday morning with more showers.
“The snow levels will come down again,” said Mike Petrucelli, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Medford. “The question is where they’re going to be at.”
Although Wednesday’s snow advisory prepared residents for the possibility of snow around 2,000 feet, most of the snowfall remained around 2,500 feet, mainly affecting eastern Douglas County from the Toketee area out to Diamond Lake.
On Wednesday, as gusts of wind and rain moved through the area, his concerns turned to reality when an estimated 40-foot long branch snapped off and headed straight for his pickup and another car parked on South Pine Street.
Luckily for him, but not so luckily for the power company or its customers, the power lines caught the branch and saved the vehicles.
Suspended by the lines, the branch dangled overhead.
“There was a little bit of damage to the truck,” Baxter said, “but nothing significant.”
The downed line knocked out power to nearly 250 customers around 2:55 p.m., said Monte Mendenhall, regional community manager for Pacific Power. It was restored for some around 4:30 p.m. and for everyone by about 5:40 p.m.
Pacific Power uses a contract arborist to make sure trees aren’t branching out too closely to power lines.
Baxter and the company have been back and forth in recent years over who is responsible for certain parts of the tree. The arborist most recently had found the tree didn’t pose an imminent threat to the lines.
However, Mendenhall said there’s always a potential that branches or trees can fall even when they’re outside the designated clearance radius of three to four feet.
Wednesday’s storm, which brought rain, wind and a snow advisory for parts of the county above 2,000 feet, has passed.
However, officials say another storm is on the way, and is expected to move in early Friday morning with more showers.
“The snow levels will come down again,” said Mike Petrucelli, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Medford. “The question is where they’re going to be at.”
Although Wednesday’s snow advisory prepared residents for the possibility of snow around 2,000 feet, most of the snowfall remained around 2,500 feet, mainly affecting eastern Douglas County from the Toketee area out to Diamond Lake.
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