LOS ANGELES - Crews are slowly restoring power to hundreds of thousands of Southern California homes and businesses left in the dark after one of the worst windstorms in years blew through the region.
In all, more than 270,000 utility customers remained without power late Thursday, down from a high of more than 350,000.
Fire officials say 75 percent of Temple City, a Los Angeles suburb of 35,000 people, was left without electricity. LA County fire Inspector Quvondo Johnson says power likely won't be restored to everyone in that San Gabriel Valley city until sometime Sunday.
In Pasadena, 42 residences were rendered uninhabitable. That city's fire department spokeswoman, Lisa Derderian, says most were part of a 40-unit apartment complex.
Crystal Walters shows the the damages to her home after strong wind uprooted a tree tearing out the back wall in her house in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, Dec. 1, 2011.
(Credit: AP)The powerful windstorm kept 9-year-old Dalen Guyton up late into the night. Then, around midnight, came the boom.
The great yawning tree that stood next to his grandmother's house, the one with the rope swing he and his sisters played on, had toppled, coming within inches of their one-story home.
On Thursday, the siblings stood out front surveying the damage.
"If she pays someone to clean it up, it's not going to be a good Christmas," said the boy, who was wearing a Santa hat. "She's not going to be able to get any presents."
The National Weather Service called Southern California's winds Wednesday night a once-in-a-decade event.
Video: Hurricane force winds rip through Calif.
In the mountains, winds were expected to gust up to 65 mph into Friday morning and 50 mph in the valleys.
High wind warnings and advisories were also issued for Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico. The blustery weather is expected to eventually hit Oklahoma, Missouri and Indiana.
The storms were the result of a dramatic difference in pressure between a strong, high-pressure system and a cold, low-pressure system, meteorologists said. This funnels strong winds down mountain canyons and slopes.
The winds reached 123 mph at a ski resort northwest of Denver and topped 102 mph in Utah.
California, however, was the hardest hit.
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