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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dodge, John (Columnist) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
NATURE > Weather.
Storms.
Tempêtes > Pacifique, Côte du (États-Unis) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Tempêtes > Californie > Pacifique, Côte du > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Tempêtes > Colombie-Britannique > Pacifique, Côte du > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Storms > Pacific Coast (U.S.) > History > 20th century.
Storms > California > Pacific Coast > History > 20th century.
Storms > British Columbia > Pacific Coast > History > 20th century.
Storms > Northwest, Pacific > History > 20th century.
United States > Pacific Coast.
Pacific Northwest.
California > Pacific Coast.
British Columbia > Pacific Coast.
Northwest, Pacific > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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