SEATTLE -- University of Washington employees are struggling to put Husky Stadium back together in time for commencement ceremonies after an overnight windstorm ripped up the building’s temporary floor, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

High winds Monday night ripped apart much of the outdoor stadium’s portable floor, which is set over the field’s artificial turf, so that chairs can be set up.

Facilities Manager Larry White said the wind started whirling around inside the stadium and created a vortex.

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Video from Chopper 7 showed green material strewn across the building.

Twenty-five university employees are scrambling to reassemble the floor by snapping together hundreds of pieces.

White said about 5,000 graduates are expected for Saturday’s graduation.

While some of the flooring was damaged, White said the material was about 10 years old and is due to be replaced.

Meanwhile, the windstorm cut power to more than 34,000 customers Monday night.

By Tuesday morning, Seattle City Light said it had restored power to all their customers. The storm had knocked out electricity to 17,000 of the utility’s customers at the height of the storm.

At last report, Puget Sound Energy had about 2,000 customers without power over their entire service region. The bulk of the remaining spot outages affected people in Kitsap County and King County.

PSE had about 17,500 in the dark at the outage's peak.

Seattle City light's last outage was on Seattle’s Beacon Hill, where about 260 customers were without power well into Tuesday morning.

In Kitsap County, a mobile home park was damaged when wind-blown trees crashed down on them. Three homes in the Olympic View mobile home park in Olalla suffered serious damage.

South Kitsap High School had to cancel classes Tuesday because of a power outage.

In Renton, crews with chainsaws were busy chopping up a large tree that had been leaning over for some time but finally toppled during the storm.