"We got the cold East Canyon Winds"

On December 1st we suffered an amazingly destructive east wind that affected North Salt Lake to Ogden. Farmington, sadly, was very hard hit by the hurricane force winds on Thursday...sustained winds of 50 to 75 mph and gusts over 100mph! Our power was out from about 2:00am on Thursday until 8:30pm. Dad was able to re-light the pilot light that had been blown out, so we did have hot water, thank goodness, and we were able to light our 2 gas fireplaces which took the chill off, barely. It was very cold outside. We brought up our camp stove and were able to cook some hot food. Yep, it was like camping indoors. The damage is amazing. We've been through some pretty severe east winds in our 31-1/2 years in Farmington, but never with this much wide-spread damage. The freeway was closed for parts of the day and the Farmington Station for the FrontRunner was closed all day with light posts across the tracks and construction debris everywhere. At least a dozen semis were over-turned on the freeway and frontage roads. We were leaving for Lewistown, Montana, but delayed our departure to drive around the subdivisions close to our house and we took some photos. I would say that about every 3rd or 4th home has uprooted trees (mostly big, old pines, but other trees also), huge branches ripped from trees that are now so scarred, shingles gone, some sidewalks buckled, fences down, signs bent over or gone, etc. We lost our biggest pine tree (Blue Spruce) at the top of the hill. Sad. Here are some other photos taken in vicinity.
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