An hour before the National Weather Service's wind advisory went into effect, high winds had already taken down more power lines in the North Bend area, causing a few thousand power outages affecting two local schools.

Andy Wappler, a spokesman for Puget Sound Energy, said Mount Si High School and Snoqualmie Elementary were without power, concerning parents whose children had spent most of the past week out of school.

He called the latest outages fairly small, adding to about 100,000 outages the company was already working to fix.

In addition to the high winds, snow, sleet and rain had saturated the ground, making trees more vulnerable.