Olaf Bolken has lived off 12th Street in Terrebonne since 1971, when he purchased an irrigated spread that abutted Highway 97.

When he bought it, the farmstead was already surrounded by big poplar trees that were likely planted when the original home was built in 1916.

Many of those trees lasted more than a century before toppling over Sunday night in a brief but powerful windstorm. The storm caused damage to just a small group of properties just north of downtown Terrebonne. Dozens of large trees fell, some more than 100-feet tall. A pergola was lifted off the ground and dropped nearby. Some sheds roofs were damaged as well, both by wind and falling limbs. There were no reports of injuries.

The National Weather Service does not have a localized station in the area, but noted that winds in Madras about 6 p.m. Sunday reached 62 mph.

“(The storm) was here only a few minutes,” said Bolken, now 87. “I couldn’t hear anything but the rain. Then I came outside and saw all the trees down.”

Bolken grew up in North Dakota and said he knows a tornado. He said this must have been something close to that. One 100-foot poplar fell into Highway 97, closing the road for a time. Others trees fell into power lines, knocking out power overnight to most of the neighborhood. It was restored about 5 a.m. Monday, though internet remained out into late Monday.

Deschutes County Fair briefly closed down Sunday due to the storm, but most of Redmond saw only a short, heavy rain. The National Weather Service measured .24 inches of rainfall at Redmond Airport.