Turning the power back on
Repairs to a single telephone pole downed in Coeur d'Alene helped turn the power back on for about 300 people after the March 12 windstorm, according to Avista estimations.
Rapid snowfall slowed repairs especially in Shoshone County for line crews after the March 12 windstorm, Avista utilities reports.
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The scale of a windstorm’s damage is difficult to comprehend.
After recent windstorms in March and December caused massive outages, the level of coordination and boots on the ground to tackle the gargantuan task was already underway days before weather conditions took a turn for the worse.
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