Jefferson: Heavy wind gusts blast county, cause power outages

A southeast wind brought down power lines, toppled trees and churned stormy seas Thursday in East Jefferson County.

Though the winds — some clocked earlier at more than 50 mph — began to die down in Port Townsend just before 7 p.m., the National Weather Service in Seattle warned that breezy and wet weather is forecast through the weekend.

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The rest of the story appears in the Friday/Saturday Peninsula Daily News. Click on WEATHER at left for the latest AccuWeather forecast.

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