Summer Wind blast leaves trail of destruction

A blast of wind Monday morning left a trail of destruction in the Clear Creek Road area east of Colfax. Witnesses said the high-powered blast sounded like a low-flying jet plane when it traveled north to south at about 7:20 a.m.

Approximately 20 feet of a barn at the Todd and Roxanna Scholz farm on the S. Palouse River Road was destroyed. The wind blast distributed debris from the barn along an airplane landing strip. The blast also took out eight trees, power lines and corrals when it hit.

Roxanna Scholz said their horses, which normally would have been in the corral, escaped possible injury...