Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Donnie Nunez, right, of Clovis and his sons Donovan Nunez, 9, and Sebastian Nunez clean up damage from Sunday night's storm.
The High Plains saw welcome rain on Sunday night, but high winds also brought down multiple trees and kept cleanup crews busy throughout Monday.
A Muleshoe elementary school was among the hardest hit.
"We had three trees that were uprooted and two trees that were split in two, more than likely from lightning," said Sam Whalin, Muleshoe Independent School District's facilities director.
Mary De Shazo Elementary also saw damage to a roof and gas line because of high winds.
"Nothing real major but a lot of little stuff was damaged. We are just run ragged," Whalin said.
Clovis also saw trees down, roofs damaged and traffic lights off line because of the storm.
Public Works Director Clint Bunch said street lights at the intersections of Prince and Seventh and 21st and Norris went down due to lightning strikes.
"We have safety features that causes those lights to go into flashing - either flashing yellow or red - in case of situations like this," Bunch said.
The lights were back up Monday morning, just in time to free workers who were kept busy throughout the day with drain and debris cleaning as well as tree branch removal.
