Winds Carve Damage Swath in Northwest

Storms on Monday brought heavy rains and 100-m.p.h. winds to the Northwest. Utility lines were ripped down, houses were smashed and fallen trees and rockslides blocked highways.

Gusts up to 107 m.p.h. toppled nearly 100 trees and ripped off roofs on the Washington State University campus at Pullman, near the Idaho border.

Joseph Spoonemore, the university’s physical plant director, said the wind broke windows in a dozen buildings and blew the roofs off several others, including a dormitory, but most students were off campus for winter break. He estimated the damage at $50,000.

Oregon coastal communities shuddered in gusts up to 76 m.p.h. early Monday and were braced for a third windstorm.

Utility crews scrambled to remove tree limbs from power lines and replace toppled poles in much of the state.

Winds of up to 70 m.p.h. also swooped down the Columbia Gorge, knocked out electricity and phone service in the Tri-Cities region of southern Washington and, farther east, in border areas from Spokane, Wash., south to Lewiston, Ida.