Things that happened around where I live

by **pikachumasterbrad12** Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:49 am

http://thetimesnewsnow.com/2008/09/15/high-winds-kill-one-in -western-pa/

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Gusty winds that swept through western Pennsylvania have killed a man who was helping to remove a large tree from a house.The Venango County coroner says 46-year-old Brendan Beck was killed Sunday night when a gust of wind caused a branch from a nearby tree to fall on him in Oil City, about 75 miles north of Pittsburgh.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 79 MPH DOWNED POWER LINES AND TREES, CLOSING ROAD AND DELAYING OR CLOSING OF SCORES OF SCHOOLS IN SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

Duquesne Light, Penn Power and Allegheny Power are reporting more than 140,000 customers without power.

The areas with the most widespread outages are in Butler County, about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, and Arnold, about 20 miles northeast of the city.

http://thetimesnewsnow.com/2008/09/15/beaver-county-court-li mited-today-due-to-power-problems/

Beaver County Court had limited operations this morning because of power problems.

Court officials reported that computers were down, and many sentencings were expected to be continued.

http://thetimesnewsnow.com/2008/09/15/thousands-remain-witho ut-power-in-beaver-lawrence-and-allegheny-counties/

Thousands of residents remained without power Monday morning, following Sunday night’s windstorm caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ike, with a wind gust reported at the Beaver County Airport at 79 miles an hour at the height of the storm.

Among the hardest hit areas were Center, Hopewell, Chippewa and Darlington townships, with some residents being told they might not have power until Thursday.

Beaver, South Side Area and Freedom Area school districts were closed for the day because of power outages.

For additional information, see Tuesday’s Times, or go to www.timesonline.com.

So basically all trees and a telephone poll or something fell down and alot of people power went off it might take till Thursday for other people to get there power back...