Residents, Industry Analysts Evaluating Western Storm Damage

Residents, Industry Analysts Evaluating Western Storm Damage: "Residents, Industry Analysts Evaluating Western Storm Damage

January 8, 2008

While it's too soon to tally insured loss estimates, Nevada residents who fled nearly 300 homes flooded when a canal's earthen bank collapsed are returning to their homes where they will face damage left by the wave of frigid water that surged through the town.

The northern Nevada desert town was hard-hit by a West Coast storm system that piled up to 11 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains and toppled nearly 500 miles of power lines in California over the weekend."