I'm definitely rolling another new personality though. Then he spotted a local wildfire, and a fallen tree knocked out electricity in the town of Gates. Amid a slowed lineup of traffic came the unmistakable sound of one tree after another snapping and falling. "Trees were falling right and left," Ewing said, after he parked at a nearby rest area. "Everybody's being turned around.

Ewing shared photographs on Facebook of the neighboring fire orange glow, and trees moving up on a nearby hillside -- how nearby was hard to tell in the dark. "Wow -- it is a nightmare," he wrote, observing fire crews head up the street. Scenes like that were being repeated across much of the state, as a predicted windstorm came to pass amid large fire threat, sending trees toppling onto homes and highways and causing wildfires to spread fast, including one that shut Highway 97 north of Chiloquin.

By late Monday night, based on ODOT TripCheck, a nearly 70-mile stretch of Highway 22, west from the junction with Highway 20, was closed due to the fires and also downed trees. State Highway 126 also was closed by means of 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 state Highway 22 between Stayton along with the Santiam Junction with Highway 20, and a 26-mile stretch (milepost 28-54) of state Highway 126 (that the McKenzie Highway) involving Vida and state Highway 242.

"Evacuations are underway in the two areas," they advised. "Watch for fire crews." Forecasters and fire officials had cautioned days the"wind event" was going to cause destruction -- and it did, with downed trees stranding many drivers until the streets could be cleared, along with the spreading wildfires.

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