Wind blasts take toll

High winds hit Whitman County Monday and left downed trees and limbs and scattered holiday decorations.

Wind knocked over trees in front of Tick Klock Drug on Main Street Colfax Monday morning.

A top section of a tree on S. Main Street Colfax snapped off and dropped in the front yard of the residence of Eric and Heather Meyer on the 900 block of South Main. The tree top landed across a fence in front of the house on the east side of the street with the end of the broken segment on the sidewalk.

The falling tree top snapped telephone lines and dropped them onto S. Main. Traffic cones were place...