Everybody's being turned around

Amid a slowed lineup of wow classic gold visitors came the unmistakable sound of one tree after another falling and snapping.

"Everybody's being turned around. There are trees falling all over the place."

Ewing shared photos on Facebook of the nearby fire's orange glow, and trees going up on a nearby hillside -- the way nearby was difficult to tell in the dark.

"Wow -- it is a nightmare," he wrote, watching fire crews head up the highway.

Scenes like that were being repeated across much of the state, as a predicted windstorm came to pass amid high fire threat, sending trees toppling onto homes and highways and causing wildfires to spread fast, such as one that closed off 97 north of Chiloquin.

By late Monday night, based on ODOT TripCheck, a nearly 70-mile stretch of Highway 22, west from the intersection with Highway 20, was closed due to the fires and downed trees. State Highway 126 also was closed by a wildfire, four miles west of McKenzie Bridge.

ODOT advised early Tuesday that wildfires had closed a nearly 70-mile stretch (milepost 82 to 13) of country Highway 22 between Stayton along with cheap wow gold classic the Santiam Junction with Highway 20, and a 26-mile stretch (milepost 28-54) of nation Highway 126 (the McKenzie Highway) between Vida and country Highway 242.