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A Deadly Wind : The 1962 Columbus Day Storm / John Dodge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dodge, John (Columnist), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Storms--Pacific Coast (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- Storms.
- Storms--California--Pacific Coast--History--20th century.
- Storms--British Columbia--Pacific Coast--History--20th century.
- Storms--Northwest, Pacific--History--20th century.
- Northwest, Pacific--History.
- Northwest, Pacific.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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
- Stormy aftermath
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-87071-929-7
- OCLC:
- 1032289445
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