tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23837029.post3964858252932948180..comments2022-01-02T22:32:48.563-07:00Comments on Daniel Wells: First Day of Hurricane Season....Tropical Storm BarryDaniel Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02960153528289055404noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23837029.post-43873125939914319422007-06-07T02:16:00.000-07:002007-06-07T02:16:00.000-07:0012 October 1962, Vancouver Island, British Columbi...12 October 1962, Vancouver Island, British Columbia: Remnants of Typhoon Freda strikes the Pacific Coast. Wind speeds at Victoria reach 74 km/hr (44 mph) with gusts to 145 km/hr (87 mph). Seven die, $10 million in damage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23837029.post-41698232703969731162007-06-01T22:15:00.000-07:002007-06-01T22:15:00.000-07:00Hopefully the Spanish version of the second part o...Hopefully the Spanish version of the second part of my 1st name stays out in the ocean!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23837029.post-19560069873244723402007-06-01T21:13:00.000-07:002007-06-01T21:13:00.000-07:00That must have been quite the experience Greg...I'...That must have been quite the experience Greg...I've never been up close and personal with a storm of that magnitude...maybe one day I'll see something like that. <BR/><BR/>We'll see how active the season is this year.Daniel Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02960153528289055404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23837029.post-66034566210495362992007-06-01T19:54:00.000-07:002007-06-01T19:54:00.000-07:00Dano, Thanks for your storm post. It brought back ...Dano, Thanks for your storm post. It brought back some memories for me.<BR/><BR/> I was actually witness to the Columbus Day Storm,<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day_Storm<BR/><BR/> a Cyclone which hit the Pacific Coast of California,Oregon and Washington State on Oct 12, 1962. I was in Longview, WA. I was only 4 years old but I will never ever forget it. The power of it was awesome. I remember going outside and watching newspapers, garbage can lids, shingles flying overhead at 140K-160K per hour. Our roof was trying to get peeled off, one shingle at a time. Garbage can lids flew down the street like giant killer frisbees. A tree in our front yard broke in half and as I remember was on fire. The sound of it was immense. <BR/><BR/> I really enjoyed it at the time and figured there would be more to come...but not one since :-). At least 46 fatalities were attributed to this storm, more than for any other Pacific Northwest wind event. In less than 12 hours, over 11 billion board feet (26,000,000 m³) of timber was blown down in northern California, Oregon and Washington combined; some estimates put it at 15 billion board feet (35,000,000 m³). This exceeded the annual timber harvest for Oregon and Washington at the time. This value is above any blowdown measured for East Coast storms, including hurricanes: even the often-cited New England hurricane of 1938, which toppled 2.65 billion board feet (6,000,000 m³), falls short by nearly an order of magnitude.<BR/><BR/>Estimates put the dollar damage around $230 million to $280 million for California, Oregon and Washington combined, with nearly $200 million occurring in Oregon alone. These figures, in 1962 dollars, are comparable to land-falling hurricanes that occurred within the same timeframe (say 1957 to 1961, Audrey, Donna, Carla). The dollar damage adjusted to 2002 for inflation and population/property increase suggest a $3 to $5 billion storm, if not more.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Happy Storm Chasing<BR/><BR/>GregGregwhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05251875163665063544noreply@blogger.com