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January 14, 2021 12:13 AM Kris Crocker
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The memories of the historic Inland Northwest Windstorm of 2015 are still fresh for many of us. Ponderosa Pine stumps still dot my neighborhood from the fallen trees. Every time the power goes out, I remember my week with no electricity. It was a 100-year storm, but just over five years later, Wednesday’s event felt amazing similar.
Peak wind gusts
Windstorm 2021 matched 2015’s fury on many fronts. The peak wind gust reported at Spokane International Airport was 71 mph in both storms! One thing of note, the power was knocked out to the airport during part of the time that the winds were at their peak in 2015. It is conceivable that we could have had a stronger gust. For comparison, Fairchild Airforce Base reported a peak wind gust of 71 mph in 2015, and a 61 mph gust Wednesday morning.
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As the U.S. tries to wind down two decades of war in Afghanistan, the conflict has already left lasting marks on Spokane By Orion Donovan-Smith, The Spokesman-Review
Published: January 10, 2021, 10:00am
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SPOKANE It was getting close to Christmas 2001 when 33-year-old Air Force Capt. Brian Newberry got a call at Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina.
At first it seemed like a normal call. The United States and its allies had invaded Afghanistan two months earlier in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and C-17 Globemaster pilots like Newberry, who would go on to become commander of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base, were flying regular airlift missions to support combat operations in the Central Asian country.
| News | December 17th, 2020
The vibrant life of Ashley Lake Hamilton came to a sudden end on the Sunset Highway between Airway Heights and Fairchild Air Force Base on Thursday, December 10, 2020.
Ashley was born on a beautiful Monday afternoon, June 2, 1980, at St. Ansgar Hospital in Moorhead, Minnesota. She was the second child of Barbara (Lake) and Douglas Hamilton. Ashley was a beautiful, creative and strong-willed child and she carried those traits into adulthood.
Ashley moved to the Pacific Northwest as a teenager and lived in various places in Oregon and Washington before settling in Airway Heights. She loved the forests and rivers and lakes and mountains terrain very different from the vast prairie and farm fields where she started.