A wind storm blew across the Willamette Valley Thursday morning and again that night, with gusts of up 60 to 70 mph tearing tin roofs from barns, knocking over trees, breaking branches and knocking out power.
Sweet Home came through the storm relatively unscathed Thursday and then experienced a second storm of less intensity Sunday night.
Sustained winds were around 30 to 40 mph Thursday, National Weather Service Meteorologist Dan Keirns said. The winds swept…