Humboldt is assessing the ways in which our current wicked winds are negatively affecting it today. In addition to this morning’s power outages and school closures, Outpost readers have clued us in to a few other casualties. 

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Friend of the LoCO Araya Escareno sends photos from near the intersection of Iowa and McCullens streets in Eureka, where half of a tree has fallen across the roadway, impeding traffic.

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LoCO superreader Dorthy Thomas chronicles a downed lamppost in the Winco Foods parking lot. Thomas says when she arrived the post was laying across the front of a car. 

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Photo: “Sterling’s Wall”

Elsewhere, multiple readers alert us that the canopy that encases the new, ambitious Fortuna Ice Rink did not make it through the night. Online info we could find indicates that the rink was set to open tomorrow.

UPDATE: This morning, the Outpost spoke with Dianna Rios with the Fortuna Business Improvement District who told us they were working diligently to reinforce the structure and that the ice rink would still open tomorrow as scheduled.

“That’s what we’re shooting for,” Rios said. “If not we will let you know.”

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The wind and rain extends south to Willits, where North Coast News anchor/reporter Lindsay Housaman is filing weather reports from her car.

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Is weather putting a damper on your day somehow? Let LoCO know and we will update this post.