PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Violent winds that wreaked havoc in Western states eased Friday but hundreds of thousands of people remained without power and crews struggled to clean up smashed trees, toppled power lines and debris-strewn roadways....
Violent Wind Storm Leaves Path Of Destruction
By NOAKI SCHWARTZ, Associated Press
Fri, 12/02/2011 - 12:52pm
Topics: natural disaster power outage the west weather winds
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