Winds Rip Through Reno; Damage Reported
Winds gusting off the Sierra Nevada at up to 89 mph blew out two plate glass windows at a closed restaurant Monday, downed power lines and trees, and turned nearby valleys into dust bowls.
“It sounded like a bomb exploded,” said Lisa Mohun of Truckee, Calif., who was 20 feet away when the windows blew out of the Two Giraffe’s Bar and Grille in downtown Reno.
One of the plates of glass was about 15 feet long by 5 feet high. The other was about 8 feet long. Some of the larger shards stuck in the booths of the closed restaurant.
The California Highway Patrol closed 10 miles of Interstate 80 between Kingvale and Donner Lake when heavy snow reduced visibility about 7 p.m.
The winds blew the roof off an apartment building on Hubbard Street in Reno, flipped a small plane parked at Douglas County Airport and toppled a 35-foot tree at the state Capitol grounds in Carson City.
The National Weather Service reported a wind gust of 89 mph at its Washoe weather station just north of Reno at 1:55 p.m.
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