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A deadly wind the 1962 Columbus Day storm

The Columbus Day Storm of 1962 was a freak of nature, a weather outlier with deadly winds topping one hundred miles per hour. The storm killed dozens, injured hundreds, damaged more than fifty thousand homes, and leveled enough timber to build one million homes. To find an equally ferocious storm of...

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Main Author: Dodge, John (Columnist) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Storms > Northwest, Pacific > History > 20th century.
Storms > British Columbia > Pacific Coast > History > 20th century.
Storms > California > Pacific Coast > History > 20th century.
Storms > Pacific Coast (U.S.) > History > 20th century.
Northwest, Pacific > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Out on a limb
  • Tracking Typhoon Freda
  • Countdown to calamity
  • Death comes to Eugene
  • Coastal chaos
  • Ground zero
  • A wind like no other
  • Fallen forests
  • The wind and wine
  • Bridgetown under siege
  • Life turns on a dime
  • Lions in the wind
  • It happened at the fair (buon gusto)
  • Terror in Stanley Park
  • A stormy aftermath
  • Epilogue.

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