Winds as high as 74 mph have knocked out power to more than 75,000 homes and businesses in Western Virginia, sent numerous trees crashing down and prompted the mandatory evacuation of hundreds of residences in the Montvale area threatened by a forest fire. Smoke from wind-driven brush fires in Roanoke County has forced police to close the southbound lanes of Interstate 81 near the Hollins exit, and both lanes of U.S. 460 near Bonsack.

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