Power Outage in Hailey, ID

A 65 mph wind gusts 6 miles south of Sun Valley. There was a power outage in Blaine County affecting about 1,000 customers until about 5:30 PM MDT.

Rain on top of continued snow melt pushed the Big Wood River to flood stage and eventually reaching moderate and major flood stage at Hailey. The entire Big Wood River Valley encountered major flooding with as many as 5,000 evacuations from Bellevue to Hailey to Ketchum and Sun Valley by May 6th. Many people went without electricity in the valley today with water pumps also running continually with major flood damage in basement homes. One home in north Ketchum on Empire Creek Road suffered a death on May 10th when a man died in a basement trying to assist with pumps to remove over 6 feet of water from the basement. The evacuation order reached 24 homes in Blaine County along the Big Wood River by mid month. Costs of flood damage reached 10 million dollars in the county. Levee repair costs were included and damage included agriculture, homes, businesses, roads, bridges resorts, government infrastructure and preserves. Sand bagging was continual by volunteers throughout the month as well. the flooding caused extensive power pole damage. The Big Wood River spent the entire month exceeding and receding from flood stage in Blaine County with the worst flooding during the first two weeks of the month.

The Blaine County Emergency Manager reported several tree limbs down in the city of Hailey. This occurred along with downed power lines and roof damages to residences.

Thunderstorm winds toppled trees into a power line downing it in the city of Hailey.

Fifty to 100 lodge-pole pines were uprooted near Pettit Lake. Trees falling against power lines which caused power outages.

Thunderstorm winds blew down several power lines in Hailey.

A lightning strike to a power pole in between Hailey and Ketchum shut down power and also business in Ketchum from 5:35 pm MDT to 8 pm MDT on August 12th.

Thunderstorm winds toppled trees and downed a power line in Hailey.

Trees and power lines downed south of Bellevue.