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Wind damage widespread at Wright-Patt
Staff Report
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The remnants of Hurricane Ike that wind-whipped the Miami Valley on Sunday, Sept. 14, crashed trees down on some military family housing and damaged roofs on buildings at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
“It looks very much like the rest of the Miami Valley,” base spokesman Derek Kaufman said Monday. “But since we’ve got more than 8,000 acres, we make a big target.”
Civil engineers from the 88th Air Base Wing at Wright-Patterson were assessing the damage. With more than 800 buildings and residences on the base grounds, those examinations and a complete damage assessment was likely to take several days, Kaufman said.
No financial estimate of the damage was available, he said.
In the early hours after the high winds thrashed the region Sunday afternoon and knocked down electric power lines, Wright-Patterson Medical Center was forced to operate on emergency generator power. The hospital was back up on regular utility power by Monday morning, Kaufman said.
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