storm damage

Two storms this summer left the city of St. Cloud with loads of clean-up work and months later it's still not completed. A July 1st storm and subsequent August 2nd storm left trees down all across the city.

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State officials will begin conducting storm damage assessments today (Thursday) in several counties that have been affected by the recent storms. They'll be here in St. Cloud at 9:00 a.m. today at the Stearns County Emergency Management Office.

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Wind speeds may have reached 90 miles an hour as a powerful storm swept through Sauk Centre on Sunday night. The National Weather Service says the power went out at the airport just before an official wind speed could be clocked.

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One of the hardest hit areas in last night's storm was Sauk Centre.

Straight-line winds damaged hundreds of homes and uprooted a number of trees.

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Strong thunderstorms rumbled through much of Minnesota again on Sunday night. Thunderstorm and Tornado warnings were posted for several counties as a cool front advanced across the state.

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Gov. Mark Dayton has declared a state of emergency in 16 counties -- including the St. Cloud area -- because of extensive damage from the July 1 storms.

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About 1,700 customers of East Central Energy are still without power today (Tuesday), four days after a powerful storm ripped through Central Minnesota.

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St. Cloud is facing several weeks of clean-up, after last Friday's storm. The compost site will remain open to city residents all this week.

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The Sauk Rapids compost site will be open this week, for residents who need to get rid of trees and other debris from last Friday's storm.

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Xcel Energy officials say they've made great progress in restoring power to a large area of Central Minnesota, hit hard in Friday's storms. But the power's still out for some 2,400 Xcel customers stretching from Sioux Falls to St. Cloud.

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