The couple was uninjured, but the home was damaged.
It wasn’t until police and fire crews arrived that the couple realized a large pine tree had fallen onto their home on Via Grimaldi, north of Carmel Valley Road. “It was very, very loud, like an explosion,” Melba Kooyman told OnScene TV. His wife said the noise was so loud, she thought something had blown up. Kooyman said he initially thought someone had thrown a rock through a window and was breaking into the home. Gerald and Melba Kooyman, who live in the Torrey Pines neighborhood of San Diego, awoke to a loud crashing noise and found glass from a broken light fixture on the foot of their bed around 2:45 a.m. The area of I-8 near the border of San Diego and Imperial counties was closed to high-profile vehicles. But an extended blackout hit more than 8,000 customers as the utility rushed to cope with winds that hit 84 mph near Julian, 80 mph at Boulevard, along Interstate 8, and 77 mph in Pine Valley. The winds knocked out power to more than 30,000 San Diego Gas & Electric customers across the county.
“These were the strongest winds I’ve seen out there in the nearly 23 years I’ve worked here,” said Phil Gonsalves, a weather service forecaster. The winds also hit more than 50 mph just off the coast. (Howard Lipin/For The San Diego Union-Tribune)
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