Winds leave path of destruction in Western Idaho The anemometer atop the Bureau of Land Management fire tower on Lookout Mountain in Valley County clocked Monday evening's wind at 71 miles per hour. Then it broke. "They estimated the wind at 80 to 90 mph after it broke the instrument," said Valerie Mills, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boise. Another BLM instrument measured gusts at 65 miles per hour near Silver City. The powerful winds that pushed a cloud of dust, tumbleweeds and other debris hundreds of feet into the air caused fires, traffic accidents and property damage from the Oregon state line to Mountain Home....