About 2,100 households in a rural area between southern Deschutes and northern Klamath counties lost power after multiple trees fell on power lines Thursday afternoon.

Crews restored power to all areas except Crescent and Crescent Lake as of 5:30 p.m. Thursday.

“We have all of our crews working to restore power to the remaining areas as quickly as possible,” Midstate Electric Cooperative said on its Facebook page.

Kimberly Hannon, a marketing and communications associate for the La Pine-based cooperative, told The Bulletin she learned about the outage around 3 p.m.

Thursday. It affected 2,136 households.

Hannon said the trees fell in the Gilchrist and Crescent area along state Highway 58 and were likely downed by wind and snow. She said crews were dispatched to remove the trees.

The area impacted ranged from Gilchrist south to Kirk Road in Chiloquin, Hannon said. Updates would be posted to the company’s social media accounts, Hannon said.

The area includes some of Central Oregon’s smallest and most remote communities between Bend and Klamath Falls.

Also Thursday afternoon, parts of the south side of Sisters lost power as a tree downed power lines on South Ash Street, closing several streets.

The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning Thursday afternoon for the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains — including the La Pine and Sunriver areas — until 4 a.m. Sunday.

Temperatures could be as low as the teens on Friday and Saturday night and single-digits Sunday night. Between 16 to 40 inches of snow is expected in areas near La Pine and Sunriver and gusts of wind as high as 60 miles per hour.

“Travel could be very difficult to impossible,” the warning states. “Widespread blowing snow could significantly reduce visibility. Strong winds could cause tree damage. The cold wind chills as low as 25 below zero could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 30 minutes.”

The weather service urges people to keep an extra flashlight, food and water in their vehicles in case of an emergency should they have to travel.