GATES, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Bend resident Dave Ewing was heading home on condition Highway 22 from the Valley on Monday night, such as wow gold classic many holiday weekend travelers, when he started seeing and dodging fallen trees.

Amid a slowed line of traffic came the unmistakable sound of one tree after another falling and snapping. "Everybody's being turned around. You will find trees falling all over the place."

Ewing shared photographs on Facebook of the nearby flame's orange glow, and trees going up on a nearby hillside -- how nearby was hard to tell from the dark.

Scenes similar to that were being repeated across much of the country, as a called windstorm came to pass amid large fire threat, sending trees toppling onto homes and highways and causing wildfires to spread quickly, including one that closed Highway 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 cheap classic gold wow the fires and downed trees. State Highway 126 also was closed by a wildfire, four miles west of McKenzie Bridge.