A windstorm gusting upward of 40 to 50 mph in the mid-Willamette Valley covered most of western Oregon Saturday afternoon, knocking down about seven wires and knocking out power to about 2,300 in the Sweet Home area.
“We had a strengthening low-pressure system off the coast that intensified off the coast, which helped to ramp up the winds from the southwest,” said Meteorologist Laurel McCoy with the National Weather Service in Portland. With a tight…