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windthrown · 14th December 2007, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by mdvaden

It's mellower down here in southern Oregon. But I'd be very happy to be back up north at Washington County.

Did you live in Oregon during the 1962 Columbus Day storm?

Wikipedia has a fairly thorough article on it. The winds of the 1962 storm were about 40% stronger than this last one.

Yah, I was a kid living with my family in Lake Oswego, OR when the October, or Columbus Day storm hit. It was a big one. Power was out for 2 weeks. Power lines were down all over the place, and we were instructed to jump over them walking to school. Completely flattened the fence (dog-eared fence, set on posts set in concrete). House was 6 years old and faired well. We lived on camp stove food in the kitchen, and ate everything in the freezer. We had picked and frozen a bunch of blueberries a few weeks before, and ate everything with blueberries. I loved that.

This last sorm was not as big as the Eugene Storm that blew through here either. That storm took out the whole front of the barn, which is still missing the siding on the walls on the entire east end. I am still finding trees downed by this last storm though. This a 100+ acre ranch. We run sheep on 25 acres of pastures, and the rest is in timber. Several of the skid roads are blocked, and we will be cutting more firewood from the windthrow.