Bedford County Cleans Up After High Winds

The Department of Emergency Services reported major wind damage to accompany the weekend flooding.

Officials said high winds are unusual for March. Not only that, the wind took on a whole new direction. It reportedly blew north to south.

Bedford County usually sees the opposite.

Three mountain ranges running across the county make the area a wind tunnel, according to Emergency Services officials.

Trees were whipped in a reverse direction, on their weak side -- a force many of them could not withstand.

"We had trees go down. We had limbs. We even had rocks and boulders fall from cliffs onto roadways," said EMA Coordinator, Dave Cubbison.

Things are settling in Bedford County and most are working to clean up and things back in working order.

Emergency Services warns folks, next time, bring everything inside that cannot be tied down, because even things like garbage cans can be projectiles.