CHARLESTON — Several things went bump in the night — but not because it was the holidays.

Things bumping around more likely included tree branches, overturned garbage cans, tarps — and some of the 37,000 folks in Oregon, Washington and northern California who may have been left without power — as hurricane-force winds battered the West Coast on Sunday night and early this morning.

In Curry County, reports were that wind gusts at Cape Blanco reached 113 miles an hour with sustained winds of more than 80 miles per hour overnight.

Coos County

Throughout Coos County, there were numerous reports of downed power lines, trees and flooding.

Sustained winds of around 40 miles per hour, with gusts to almost 70 overnight left nearly 1,500 people in Coos County without power.

By 7 a.m., the number of people without power was reduced to 790.

“We’re making headway. We’ve been making headway all night,” said Pacific Power spokesman Paul Vogel.

Coos County Sheriff’s Sgt. Pat Downing said he had counted 12 incidents of trees and power lines down, or requests for assistance from public utilities.

“There’s just been tree after tree after tree,” Downing said, “so, we’re just trying to keep up with it.”

Until 7:30 a.m. today, there had been no reports of accidents due to storm-related traffic hazards.

Coos County roads made it through the weekend in fairly good shape, said interim Roadmaster Coos County Commissioner Kevin Stufflebean.

“At this point, we just had downed trees around the county, but no critical road closures,” he said.

Crews have been on call since 7 this morning. One crew member has been stationed in Charleston since 5 a.m.

Bandon was the hardest hit, Stufflebean said, with trees blocking roadways. Broadbent and Charleston also were areas where county road crews spent a good deal of time cleaning debris on Saturday and Sunday, Stufflebean said.

At 9 p.m. Sunday, crews were told not to go out unless there was severe damage to a roadway or blockage of a primary artery.

“We didn’t want (crews) endangering themselves in the dark,” Stufflebean said.

Trees and debris littered the roadways as crews from Coos Curry Electric, Bandon Electric as well as officers from the Bandon Police Department, Oregon State Police and the Sheriff’s Office responded, according to a Coos County Sheriff’s Office press release.

At U.S. Highway 101 and Lower Fourmile Road, trees blocked the highway and prevented travel north and south. Trees also fell on Highway 101 near Bullards Beach State Park and West Beaver Hill Road.

Highway 42 near milepost 1 saw tree blockage of part of the highway. Oregon State Police and Sheriff’s deputies responded. A tree fell near Seven Devils Road near milepost 11.5 (new Southwest 10th Road), taking with it power lines and poles.

Oregon Department of Transportation crews have been working almost continuously since Sunday afternoon, clearing roadways of debris.

The first flight of the day at the Southwest Oregon Regional Airport left on time. The facility has four Horizon flights per day, according to Airport Operations Agent David Cameron. Dean Taoboy, manager of Horizon. He said, so far, no flights have been canceled.

“A few have been delayed 30 to 40 minutes,” Taoboy said.

Bandon

In Bandon, the storm was violent early on. Winds began to blow mid-morning Sunday and continued throughout the day, picking up speed and intensity about 4 p.m.

Trees and power lines were down all over town, snapping and arcing, causing small fires and power outages. About 5 p.m. a transformer in east Bandon blew, leaving much of that side of town without power, including the Bandon Shopping Center and the busy intersection of U.S. Highway 101 and state Highway 42S. Police Chief Bob Webb, along with other police officers, directed traffic at the intersection as dusk fell.

A tree crashed through the roof at 11th Street and June Avenue about 4:15 p.m., causing extensive damage to the front of the house, but no injuries were reported.

At the beach, swells and high tides didn’t keep storm watchers away, some even venturing onto the sand. Bandon electric and public works crews, as well as fire and police personnel, worked throughout the night, dashing from one power outage, downed tree or other wind-related emergency to another. Power was restored and lost again several times in various areas in town, as winds continued and increased overnight, causing damage to homes and property. Businesses were left without power.

Power in the city of Bandon was extinguished by the storm damage several times in the early evening hours and customers of Coos Curry Electric south of Bandon also lost power. As of 10:30 p.m., crews were still out attempting to restore power.

No further information was available from Coos Curry Electric as of 8:45 a.m.

CurryCounty

The winds have been wreaking havoc in Curry County, particularly in the central and northern sections, said Dan Crumley, county roadmaster. The county hasn’t closed any roads, though the large number of downed trees has essentially done the same.

“Roads have kind of closed themselves,” Crumley said. “This is one of the more challenging wind storms in recent years, both in terms of velocity and duration.

“We got our hands full and we are looking at a full day of work today.”

There were no reports of flooding as of 8:30 a.m., Crumley said, though downed trees have been more than enough to keep road crews busy. He said reports have come from up and down the coast, though it seems Brookings wasn’t hit as hard.

“Numerically, it just doesn’t seem as high,” he said.

Reedsport

Several trees were down across roadways in the Reedsport area overnight as utility crews worked to get power lines reconnected and the power back on for about 420 residents overnight.

Two cell phone towers in the Western Douglas County area also were without power between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m.

Approximately 350 people in Winchester Bay were without power for about two and one-half hours, but Central Lincoln People’s Utility District representatives said this morning there were only a few outages and nothing major. Most of the remaining outages this morning were east of Hauser and Lakeside.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office reported trees down across Smith River Road, a tree and power line down across Wildwood Drive near Lakeside and a tree down near U.S. Highway 101 near Eel Lake.

Up and down the coast

As of 7 a.m. today, the Coos County 911 Center has fielded 73 calls for service-related to the storm, according to a Sheriff’s Office press release. These calls ranged from downed trees and power lines and power outages.

A spokeswoman at Verizon said, even though they had extra people working this morning, she had received no reports of telephone outages between 6 and 7 a.m.

“So far, so good,” she said.

Gary Leaming, an ODOT spokesman, said downed trees have been a problem on U.S. Highway 101 from Reedsport down to the California border.

“Crews have been out all night trying to keep the roads open, but once they clean up one area, they have to go right on to the next one,” he said.

He noted that in the northern part of the state, stretches of highway have been closed because of storm damage.

“In comparison, we are doing pretty well,” he said.

Leaming said downed trees also have been reported on state Highway 42 and some high water was reported at milepost 14 on state Highway 38. But as of 8 a.m., no slides have been called in.

“Obviously the concern is once the soil gets saturated we may get slides,” he said. “We just are battening down the hatches, cleaning up as much as we can and staying real busy.”

Missing persons found

Five people reported missing Sunday in the Bastendorff South Jetty area, were found.

According to a Coos County Sheriff’s press release, at about 9 p.m., law enforcement officers from the Coos County Sheriff’s Office, Oregon State Police and Coquille Tribal Police responded to a report of five missing people who had been walking at the jetty.

The U.S. Coast Guard sent a ground team to the area as well as launching a 47-foot motor lifeboat from the Coos Bay Coast Guard station.

Deputies at the scene contacted three young adults who told them two of their party were still missing. As large waves rolled into Coos Bay from the Pacific Ocean, the lifeboat launched flares in an attempt to illuminate the area. Waves constantly battered the South Jetty and the shoreline below Coos Head.

The Coast Guard was preparing to launch a helicopter to aid in the search, but before it could launch, two men were located on the beach near the jetty.

Steve Reynard, 20, of Jefferson; and Kyle Taylor, 19, of Idaho, were located safe, although they were wet and cold. After stern lecturing by law enforcement officers, they were released.

Forecasts

The National Weather Service had hurricane-strength wind warnings posted through 10 a.m. today, but still is warning Oregon residents that the worst of the storm isn’t over yet.

Flooding is a distinct possibility.

South winds 60 to 70 mph gusting to 90 mph or more will continue through midday today. Winds will remain south 45 to 55 mph with gusts to 75 mph this afternoon and evening, according to the National Weather Service.

The high tides this week are relatively low, but ocean swells of up to 25 feet likely will continue to roll in today through mid-week, helping keep shoreline water levels high. Add to the mix some rainfall, up to 1⁄2 inch an hour over the next several hours, and the potential for flooding becomes a reality.

More than 1.5 inches fell in Myrtle Point this morning at 6:30.

— Jo Rafferty, Alexander Rich, Amy Moss-Strong and Jolene Guzman contributed to this story.