(Note: This story has been edited to reflect the Wednesday storm for archival purposes. If you're looking for information on Thursday's storm, check the top story on our home page.)

SEATTLE - If today or Thursday happens to be your garbage day, you might want to check with your neighbors -- or perhaps the next county over -- to find where you trash can went.

The second of three strong storms blew in Wednesday morning, bringing gusts as high as 50 mph around the Puget Sound area, which appeared to take the brunt of this storm. Alki Beach hit 52 mph, while Seattle had gusts of 46 and 48 mph at Sea-Tac Airport and Boeing Field respectively. Shelton had a gust to 49 mph and Tacoma had a gust to 45 mph. We even had a few thunderstorms roll through the central and south Sound area behind the front as some unstable air moved in.

The wind twisted traffic lights, blew down trees and knocked out power to tens of thousands of utility customers in Western Washington on Wednesday.

The state's largest utility, Puget Sound Energy, said that out of roughly 75,000 customers who lost power at some point Wednesday, service had been restored to all but about 11,000 as of 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Those customers were mostly in north and east King County, and southern Kitsap County.

PSE spokeswoman Dorothy Bracken said repair crews were called in from outside the region and were being kept on hand in anticipation of another storm - possibly an even stronger one - that was expected to blow through the state beginning late Thursday.

Some 13,000 Seattle City Light customers were without power at times on Wednesday, but by late afternoon only 200 were still in the dark.

News items related to the storm:

* A tree blew into a house in Sammamish. The homeowner says her mother was struck on the head and needed five stitches. The homeowner's 11-month old son was buried in ceiling insulation and had to be dug out.

*Winds set a crane spinning at a condo tower construction project in downtown Seattle at Fifth and Madison. Chains hanging from it swung into a nearby building, breaking exterior glass on the Bank of California building.

* Wapato Park and Pt. Defiance Parks were closed due to toppled trees.

*Falling trees hit two school buses in the Seattle area Wednesday morning, while another school bus into a ditch near Airway Heights, near Spokane.

*A Seattle school bus driver suffered minor injuries when a tree hit his bus as he was driving in Tukwila on his way to pick up children, the State Patrol said. The driver, a 31-year-old Renton man, was taken to the hospital - and given a ticket when troopers realized he wasn't properly licensed to drive a school bus.

* Another tree fell on a school bus in Auburn. The five students on board were not injured; another bus took them to Terminal Park Elementary.

* There were about 20 students on the Reardan-Edwall School District bus that slid into a ditch near Airway Heights. No one was hurt, and they were put on another bus to finish the trip to school.