High winds leave damage in Central Utah

SPRINGVILLE — High winds late Saturday left damage across areas of Utah and Emery County, and the cleanup was expected to take days in some places.

In Hobble Creek Canyon, the gusts knocked over multiple large trees at Hobble Creek Golf Course, prompting workers to close the area.

“The course will be closed for at least the next couple of days,” the course’s Facebook page read Sunday. “The heavy winds last night did extensive tree damage. We will keep you posted on a reopen date.”

Meanwhile, in a neighborhood near the golf course, Natasha Peterson shared photos with KSL showing an 80-foot tree toppled on top of her home.

Peterson later Sunday expressed gratitude to her neighbors and community for helping to get the massive tree off the house.

The community surrounding Ferron in Emery County also saw notable damage, including at the city’s cemetery.

Mike Howes described powerful winds Saturday night that made it sound like his house was “flexing.”

He said he discovered a wall of his chicken coop had collapsed during the windstorm, and that it appeared one of his neighbors had lost a silo.

Howes captured drone footage of at least 2 large trees and several other smaller ones that fell at the Ferron cemetery.

“(It was) heartbreaking, you know,” Howes said. “A lot of us who grew up here in Ferron, we used to go up to the cemetery often, and it was just a solid canopy of trees, and so to see any of them toppled over—not to mention the damage it does to the gravesites and headstones and things like that — it’s a very vital part of our community here, so heartbreaking.”

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