I am definitely rolling another new character though. GATES, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Bend resident Dave Ewing was heading home on state Highway 22 in the Valley on Monday night, such as WOW Classic TBC Gold many vacation weekend travelers, when he started visiting and dodging fallen trees. Then he spotted a nearby wildfire, and a fallen tree knocked out power at the town of Gates.

Amid a slowed line of traffic came the unmistakable sound of one tree after another snapping and falling. "Trees were falling left and right," Ewing said, after he parked in a nearby rest area. "Everybody's being flipped around. Ewing shared photos on Facebook of the neighboring fire's orange glow, and trees going up on a nearby hillside -- the way neighboring was difficult to tell in the dark.

"Wow -- it is a nightmare," he wrote, watching fire crews head up the highway. Scenes like that were repeated across much of the state, as a predicted windstorm came to pass amid high fire danger, sending trees toppling onto homes and highways and causing wildfires to spread fast, including one which shut off 97 north of Chiloquin.

By late Monday night, according to ODOT TripCheck, a nearly 70-mile stretch of Highway 22, west from the intersection with Highway 20, was closed due to the fires and downed trees. State Highway 126 also was closed by a wildfire, four kilometers west of McKenzie Bridge.

ODOT advised early Tuesday the wildfires had closed a nearly 70-mile stretch (milepost 82 to 13) of state Highway 22 between Stayton and the Santiam Junction with Highway 20, along with also a 26-mile stretch (milepost 28-54) of nation Highway 126 (the McKenzie Highway) between Vida and cheap WOW Classic Burning Crusade Gold state Highway 242.