Wild weather

Wild overnight weather left a quarter of Mason County without power at one point early Wednesday morning, closed roads due to downed power lines and felled trees, flooded roads and delayed schools.

At 6:45 a.m. Wednesday, almost 25% of PUD 3 customers lacked service, according to the utility’s website.

As of 11 a.m., that number had dropped to 4,419 customers (12.45%) throughout the county, PUD 3’s outage tracker showed.

Roads were slower to recover.

As of 9 a.m., Purdy Cutoff Road was closed due to multiple downed trees, Skokomish Valley Road was closed due to flooding and West Bourgault Road...