Update

At Noon, the Douglas Electric Cooperative reported about 1,000 without of power this afternoon in the Camas Valley, Tenmile, Umpqua, Scottsburg and Reedsport areas.

Friday morning began with 5,000 of the co-op's customers in the dark due to the windstorm early Friday morning.

A mudslide in the Hubbard Creek area happened, but downed trees was cited as the delaying factor for crews restoring electricity to the Umpqua and Tyee areas.

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High winds and falling trees left several hundred area residents without power this morning. Thousands were without power throughout the state.

Utility crews were out Thursday working on other weather-related problems and continued working today to restore power.

Douglas Electric Cooperative sent out several press releases this morning on local power outages in Roseburg and surrounding areas to the west and north.

The press release stated the downed Pacific Power line that feeds the local co-op’s Lookingglass substation had cut power to customers in Camas Valley, Tenmile, Melrose, Lookingglass and Umpqua.

Co-op customers in Drain, Elkton, Scottsburg, Tyee, Loon Lake, Lakeside and Reedsport had outages, too.

At 7 a.m., 5,000 customers were affected by the power problems, according to the press release.

Pacific Power customers in Roseburg and Azalea reported outages.

Paul Vogel, Pacific Power’s director of public affairs, said about 330 customers in Roseburg and 10 in Azalea had lost power.

He expected power to be restored later today.

Vogel said utility crews had been out in Eastern Oregon Thursday restoring power and that heavy winds early this morning kept crews working through the night, especially in the Upper Willamette Valley.

About 6,300 customers were without power at 8 this morning, and at one point early this morning, 11,000 customers lost power for about five minutes when a station in Albany was hit.

Winds howled through the state and in Douglas County throughout the night, according to the National Weather Service in Medford.

Chris Outler, a weather technician with the agency, said winds in Roseburg were clocked at 32 mph just before 3 a.m. and gusts of more than 50 mph were recorded at some places around the county.

Outler said winds today would be calming down to 10 to 15 mph less than what they were during the night, and Saturday winds should gust in between 5 and 10 mph.

Cooler air will be ushered in by the winds, he said.

The National Weather Service in Portland is cautioning residents and travelers to watch for debris flows and landslides as part of a flood watch for portions of the state including the north and central Coast Range.

You can reach reporter DD Bixby at 957-4211 or by e-mail at dbixby@nrtoday.com.