The Columbus Day Storm?   Goes to read article.

Dewey Fidalgo: The Columbus Day Storm?   Goes to read article.

Yep.  It's legendary in Oregon.   My husband lived through it.  His grandkids even know about it.

For me, it was the "Christmas Floods" a couple of years later.  Didn't know until years later that it impacted Oregon, too, but northern California saw some towns disappear, roads gone.   The six rivers all blew out their banks.   Places that existed for me as kid before the floods are all gone now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_flood_of_1964

fat boy: Dewey Fidalgo: Dewey Fidalgo: The Columbus Day Storm?   Goes to read article.

Yep.  It's legendary in Oregon.   My husband lived through it.  His grandkids even know about it.

For me, it was the "Christmas Floods" a couple of years later.  Didn't know until years later that it impacted Oregon, too, but northern California saw some towns disappear, roads gone.   The six rivers all blew out their banks.   Places that existed for me as kid before the floods are all gone now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_flood_of_1964

Was living in Jasper Or. Right on the river. Got flooded out and moved to Springfield. I really don't know if we were in Oregon for the wind storm or not. I do remember seeing trees down from it in Eugene over by the Sears on 10th and Charnalton

When I found out the Oregon got hit so hard by the floods, it was new information to me.  It was so destructive in Humboldt County and surrounding counties especially that I never looked beyond.   For some time 101 was cut off both north and south, from the Klamath to the Eel by the washed out bridges.  The area was quite isolated for some time.