By Marcy Axness and Patric Hedlund, TME

If you had a hard time sleeping through the roaring winds of February’s gusty storms, you weren’t alone. Winds clocked at 85 to 90 miles per hour were reported in Lebec, with pounding gusts in Pine Mountain Club also.

Casey Thomas-Bridge thought that the “boom!” that woke her at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13 was…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Trees were falling all over the mountain in February’s gusty storms.
Above: A very tall tree in Lebec that fell near the pump station houses, down the way from the post office on Lebec Road. Right: The tree that fell across the street from El Tejon School was bushy and filled with pine cones and hopping sparrows, but its roots were shallow. Below: Rick Throckmorton’s blue spruce that had lovely foliage to catch the wind, with inadequate tap root structure to keep it anchored in the damp ground.

Right, above: Another tall tree fell on the Thomas-Bridge home, but luckily did not make a major crack in the roof, though it did (far right)poke a branch through the dining room ceiling.

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