{"id":64031,"date":"2018-07-11T17:33:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T23:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/winds-knock-down-trees-knock-out-power-in-dolores\/"},"modified":"2018-07-11T23:33:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T23:33:48","slug":"winds-knock-down-trees-knock-out-power-in-dolores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/winds-knock-down-trees-knock-out-power-in-dolores\/","title":{"rendered":"Winds knock down trees, knock out power in Dolores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:ccf09231-3509-4434-be3b-6f4d8725435b --><\/p>\n<p>High winds Saturday evening knocked down power lines in Dolores, leaving 1,400 people without electricity for up to three hours.<\/p>\n<p>Gusts reaching 50 mph  ripped off branches and knocked down trees throughout town.<\/p>\n<p>A large evergreen at the Arie Apartments on Central Avenue toppled over onto parked vehicles. Trees were blown down across streets and the River Trail and fell in residents\u2019 yards.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p>An Empire Electric spokesperson said power lines were damaged from windblown trees and limbs in three areas in the Dolores area. Crews were immediately dispatched to repair them.<\/p>\n<p>East of Dolores, power was knocked out from 7:50 p.m. to 10:53 p.m. In town, power was lost from 8:19 p.m. to 9:55 p.m., and another circuit in town lost power from 8:40 p.m. to 10:52 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Local meteorologist Jim Andrus said the high winds were caused by a collapsed thunder cloud that lost its warm updraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the sun went down, the air cooled, causing strong outflows down valley as the storm cloud collapsed,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time since we have seen gusts that strong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>topple; 1,400 residents lose electricity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44,490,227,28,29,1163],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-64031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores","tag-electricity-production-and-distribution","tag-empire-electric-assoc","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-weather-science"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64031"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=64031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}