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	Prime Times - Hank Henry - Columbus Day Storm was terrible
		For some reason, a portion of that storm broke away from the main body and streaked eastward with howling winds, passing well north of Hawaii.
		Thirty-five deaths were attributed to the storm in Oregon, and another 18 people died in Northern California.
		The Columbus Day storm was called a windstorm from the first, even though it had grown by breaking away from a typhoon, which is a tropical cyclone usually found around the Philippines or China Sea.
	www.mailtribune.com /primet/archive/1999/101299p2.htm (731 words)

	News-Register.com
		I approached the editor with the idea that an expanded piece on the Columbus Day Storm - the scientific part - might be in order as a way of updating history, perhaps for the principal benefit of the schoolchildren in the county.
		Forecasters issued gale warnings for the Oregon and Washington coasts in the belief the new storm would at least match the intensity of the one the day before, which had brought gusts of 62 mph to Astoria and 35 mph to Portland.
		In the Columbus Day Storm, all the causative factors were there for rapid intensification of the storm.
	www.newsregister.com /news/story.cfm?story_no=213806 (1226 words)

	Terrible Tempest of the 12th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Columbus Day Storm was born explosively when the highly degraded extratropical remains of typhoon Freda drifted into a powerful storm formation zone off of northern California and regenerated the ailing cyclone [6].
		The Columbus Day Storm is an outlier, a singularity.
		On Columbus Day 1962, east gusts at Astoria reached 43 mph during the first spike of winds on the meteogram, whereas the trace at Tatoosh is much more exxagerated, with gusts as high as 78 mph.
	oregonstate.edu /~readw/October1962.html (4157 words)

	Inauguration Day Storm 1993 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This level of destruction certainly puts the storm among the most costly since the Columbus Day storm, which cost about $40 million in 1962 dollars in Washington State (adjusted to 2001, this would be about $400 million) [2, 3].
		The March 26, 1971 storm was a 978 mb cyclone as it raced northward off the Washington Coastline and landed on the tip of the Olympic Peninsula.
		The peak PDX-BLI measure for the Inaugeration Day storm was +21.5 mb at 11:00 on Janaury 20th.
	oregonstate.edu /~readw/January1993.html (2725 words)

	National Weather Service - NWS Portland
		The Columbus Day Storm of 1962 was a classic example of a south wind storm.
		After the storm, some boats were blown from their moorings and found as far away as 10 miles to the north.
		This storm was the most intense along the coast, where wind gusts from several observations made on unofficial instruments were in excess of 100 mph.
	www.wrh.noaa.gov /pqr/paststorms/wind.php (3268 words)

	Washington's Coast: Hazards - Weather (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Storms spawned off the coasts of Japan and Siberia circle around the Pacific High into the Aleutian Low, rekindling old storms and starting new ones.
		Severe storms hit Washington's coast during the winter, bringing heavy rains, strong winds, and high waves.
		Storms blow in about 70 to 100 inches of rain per year, the heaviest precipitation on the continent north of Guatemala.
	www.ecy.wa.gov /programs/sea/coast/storms/weather.html (556 words)

	Columbus Day Storm, October 1962
		The second (and most destructive) storm formed from the remnants of Typhoon Freda, which moved northeastward from the Philippines, nearing the west coast early on the 12th.
		The Columbus Day storm is at the pinnacle of a type of weather event that is quite common in Oregon.
		The Columbus Day storm had all of those characteristics, but many aspects of that storm were magnified.
	www.ocs.orst.edu /page_links/extreme_weather/oct_62_windstorm/62_columbus_day.html (617 words)

	USATODAY.com - Ferocious storm surprised the Pacific Northwest on Columbus Day 1962 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Columbus Day Storm unexpectedly left a path of death and destruction as it moved quickly — about 40 mph — from Northern California to the Canadian border and east as far as Montana.
		The storm some forecasters have described as a "meteorological bomb" struck hard and fast, particularly because the equipment wasn't there for people to realize just how big it was.
		Capell's wife, Sylvia, remembers being at home with their infant son when the storm tore through northeast Portland, the winds blowing so hard that the shingles from a nearby home were ripped off and embedded in the side of their house.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/news/2002/2002-10-12-columbus-day-storm_x.htm (787 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Columbus Day windstorm disaster blows Olympic Peninsula and Puget Sound on October 12, 1962.
		On October 12, 1962, Columbus Day, a windstorm ravages the Puget Sound region in what the National Weather service later designates as Washington's worst weather disaster of the twentieth century.
		It was the second large storm to hit the Northwest in two days.
		All the utilities agreed that the storm was the worst in their histories.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=5325 (476 words)

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		Columbus Day is a holiday celebrated in many countries in the Americas, commemorating the date of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
		During the Columbus Day storm of 1962, the NOAA National Weather Service recorded sustained wind speeds peaking along the Oregon coast at 150 miles per hour.
		Columbus Day was first celebrated by Italians in San Francisco in 1869, following on the heels of 1866 Italian celebrations in New York City.
	www.lycos.com /info/columbus-day.html (211 words)

	The Weather Century- The 1962 Columbus Day Storm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of the century's strongest storms struck the Pacific Northwest in October 1962.
		The former typhoon buffeted Portland with winds of 119 mph and the strongest wind in the storm occured on Mount Hebo on the Oregon coast a wind speed of 176 mph.
		The storm started out nine days earlier as a weak typhoon with winds of 100 mph near the Wake Islands but it combined with an extratropical storm that moved eastward across the Pacific then northward up the Pacific Coast.
	www.angelfire.com /ga/mrsweather/century3.html (215 words)

	The Pat Pack: Cashman Classic Column October 14, 2002
		Columbus Day was actually Saturday, but it's observed today, which is sort of like observing the Fourth of July on the second, but we do it anyway.
		But Columbus Day has another sort of frightening significance for anyone who was living here in the Northwest in 1962.
		As I walked home from school with a couple of friends that Columbus Day in 1962, the winds were already beginning to build -- and I kept a wary eye skyward for flying monkeys.
	www.patpack.org /ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=83205 (847 words)

	Space Needle Official Site: History
		It took 467 cement trucks an entire day to fill the hole, the largest continuous concrete pour ever attempted in the West.
		In keeping with the Century 21 theme, the final coats of paint were dubbed Astronaut White for the legs, Orbital Olive for the core, Re-entry Red for the halo and Galaxy Gold for the sunburst and pagoda roof.
		Storms occasionally force closure of the Space Needle, as they did for the Columbus Day storm of 1962 and the “Inauguration Day” storm of 1993 when winds reached 90 miles per hour.
	www.spaceneedle.com /about/history.asp (683 words)

	Columbus Day Storm
		Add the effects of the planet's spin, friction with the surface and with other winds, and smaller-area differences in heating and cooling, and the result is an interactive, three-dimensional complex of air movement.
		Cyclones rotate counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
		I lived in the Willamette Valley during the 1960s; during the Columbus Day Storm we lived not far from the Air Force Base, Camp Adair, north of Corvallis (where wind gusts reached 127 mph).
	www.wavecrestdiscoveries.com /articles/columbus_day_storm.htm (573 words)

	Oregon Historic Photograph Collections : Browse
		Pictured is damage done by the Columbus Day Storm of October 12, 1962, at the residence of Ben Maxwell.
		Columbus Day storm on October 12, 1962 wrecked this barn at Simpson and Reidwig Roads in Washington County, Oregon.
		This shows the damage the Columbus Day Storm of October 12, 1962 caused to Campbell Hall at the Oregon College of Education in Monmouth.
	photos.salemhistory.org /cdm4/browse.php?&CISOSTART=51,1061&CISOSORT=title\|f (1112 words)

	Storm ranks among worst to hit state - News - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington
		The Inauguration Day storm killed five people and left almost 2 million without power throughout Western Washington, according to archives of The Olympian.
		A severe snow and ice storm blew in Dec. 28, 1996, was memorable.
		But the Columbus Day storm of Oct. 12, 1962, still holds the record for the area's most severe winter storm, Burg said.
	www.theolympian.com /101/story/56267.html (595 words)

	Weather Matters October 10 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Many of you remember the storm (I think anyone who was here and old enough to remember will never forget it!).
		No storm before nor since has matched its intensity and caused as much damage, although a few have come close.
		The storm reached the Oregon coast on the afternoon of the 12th.
	www.ocs.orst.edu /reports/wm/wm_991010.html (566 words)

	The Weather Century
		Seven tornados were spawned by the storm system that spread distruction from Alabama to Indiana.
		Camille was a compact storm something that would eventually baffle forecasters due to its intensity.
		Four days later, it moved to the north of the Lesser Antillies in the Caribbean and stayed north of the rest of the islands.
	www.angelfire.com /ga/mrsweather/century.html (500 words)

	Office of Emergency Management
		Most recently, a storm in Mid-December 2006 knocked out power to more than 175,000 Seattle City Light customers.
		Usually their closure is short-term, but twice (1979, 1990) floating bridges in this area have sunk in storms.
		Following the 2006 storm, 14 people in the region died due to carbon monoxide poisoning.
	www.seattle.gov /emergency/hazards/windstorms.htm (429 words)

	Bay Area Storm Index
		This was the storm on December 12, 1995 that is the benchmark of strong windstorms among Bay Area meteorologists.
		The three storms which rated a 9.5 were on December 22, 1955 and the second in December 22, 1982 and the infamous Columbus Day Storm of 1962.
		Of course the actual impacts upon the Bay Area by a pair of storms that had identical BASI values would vary significantly due to a wide variety of antecedent conditions that are not a part of the index.
	ggweather.com /basi.htm (423 words)

	News-Register.com
		It will be known forever as the date of the Columbus Day Storm, remembered vividly by those who witnessed it.
		The weekend of the storm, we had been invited to pay a visit to Denstone College, a private boys school near Uttoxeter, as guests of the headmaster and his wife.
		Mary H. Day is filling in for her husband, John, a retired Linfield College physics professor and avid meteorologist.
	www.newsregister.com /news/story.cfm?story_no=156209 (746 words)

	Columbian.com - History
		The storm lasted for hours it seemed and was preceeded by erie glow in the sky from what I read about it in later years.
		That storm changed my life for the better as I left my $4600 dollar a year teaching job and became a roofing manufacture's representative through a series of circumstances directly related to the storm..
		However I do remember that The Columbus Day Storm in fact was the remnants of typhoon Freda that came over from the sea of Japan to hit Oregon and Washington with one hell of a whallup that late Friday afternoon on October 12th in 1962.
	www.columbian.com /history/disasters/storm2page.cfm (6998 words)

	NOAA News Online (Story 1052)
		On the 40th anniversary of this strongest nontropical wind storm on record, the NOAA National Weather Service is asking people across the region to be mindful of strong winds that are typical in fall and winter.
		The Columbus Day Storm is considered the benchmark of all windstorms.
		These storms last an average of three to six hours of prolonged winds in one area before the storm moves on.
	www.noaanews.noaa.gov /stories/s1054.htm (705 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: Wanted: a name for the storm
		Or the "Patty Duke Storm" (it was her birthday, after all).
		We have the Inauguration Day Storm in 1993, the Turkey (Thanksgiving) Day Storm of 1983 and the Columbus Day Storm of 1962.
		The naming of storms probably is an outgrowth of naming hurricanes, he said.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2003490012_stormname22m.html?syndication=rss (314 words)

	Salem (Oregon) Online History - Columbus Day Storm, 1962
		Although it is generally believed to have been a hurricane, the Columbus Day Storm was actually an "extra tropical cyclone," a weather pattern formed when a cool air mass meets up with a warm one.
		In addition, the Columbus Day Storm traveled very fast: nearly 1,800 miles in less than one-and-a-half days, much faster than a hurricane.
		Somewhat ironically, the day after the storm was beautiful and warm, a perfect day on which to begin the giant task of cleaning up after such a storm.
	www.salemhistory.net /natural_history/columbus_day_storm_1962.htm (759 words)

	Peninsulas Emergency Preparedness Committee - Severe Local Storms
		Known as the Holiday Blast of 1996-1997 this storm was a series of three weather systems that included severe snow and ice followed by quick melting and runoff, causing flooding and landslides.
		Interstate 5 closed southbound and was restricted to one lane northbound due to flooding as a result of ice clogged storm drains.
		The effects of this storm were still taking their toll as late as January 19th, 1997 when a family of four died in a mudslide on Bainbridge Island when their house was pushed into Puget Sound.
	www.pep-c.org /severelocalstorms (758 words)

	The Weather Notebook: The Other Perfect Storm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		That day dawned like most other October days in the Northwest: temperatures were in the 40s, with light winds.
		The Columbus Day storm of 1961 caused 38 deaths, and it also caused meteorologists to take a closer look at Pacific Northwest storms.
		Perfect or not, the Columbus Day storm did show that there's a lot more to Northwest weather than the drizzle and fog it's known for.
	www.weathernotebook.org /transcripts/2000/10/12.html (299 words)

	Columbus Day Quiz - AOL Research & Learn
		Columbus Day Quiz - AOL Research & Learn
		Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage marked Europe's rediscovery of the Americas as well as the beginning of its effort to explore, colonize and trade with the New World.
		Christopher Columbus was a master mariner, navigator and explorer.
	reference.aol.com /history/quizzes/columbus-day?ncid=AOLRNL00140000000003 (121 words)

	bradandkathy.com
		Throw in a nice ice and snow storm that closed school for two and a half days, add in a wind storm that cancelled school for another day this past Wednesday (no electricity!) and we've got plenty of casual conversation fodder for the rest of the winter.
		Worse, they say, than the 1993 Election Day Storm, though thankfully not nearly as bad as the Columbus Day Storm of 1962.
		I figured I'd be without it for at least three or four days (the last I knew, all but the most trivial repairs got shipped off to a central facility in Texas).
	bradandkathy.com (1385 words)

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