New storms are headed toward area

COEUR d’ALENE — Don’t put those chain saws away just yet.

A parade of storms are headed toward North Idaho this week, and emergency management officials are bracing for small stream flooding and another potentially damaging wind storm.

“We just got done with a weather briefing,” said Sandy Von Behren, director of the county’s office of emergency management. “We discussed putting out a press release to talk about all of the stuff coming up.”

The National Weather Service is predicting another wind storm with sustained winds of 35 mph and gusts up to 50 mph today, and until then meteorologists say steady rains could cause flooding in some areas.

Von Behren said the rain loosening the soil around trees that were already compromised during the last wind storm has emergency workers concerned about more trees falling during the Wednesday’s oncoming storm.

“We want to alert the public to that,” she said.

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