http://pugetsoundblogs.com/forecasting-kitsap/2012/10/08/the-columbus-day-storm-50-years-later-a-kitsap-perspective-part-i/ Aspiring weatherman Matthew Leach talks about the complex and intricate weather patterns over Kitsap. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:01:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://pugetsoundblogs.com/forecasting-kitsap/2012/10/08/the-columbus-day-storm-50-years-later-a-kitsap-perspective-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-44428 Laura Genoe Tue, 09 Oct 2012 05:08:48 +0000 http://pugetsoundblogs.com/forecasting-kitsap/?p=3531#comment-44428 I was only 3 at the time. The Columbus Day storm is my earliest memory. We lived in Aloha, Oregon and we lost power. I remember the candles and cooking dinner in the fireplace. I thought it was fun.

]]> http://pugetsoundblogs.com/forecasting-kitsap/2012/10/08/the-columbus-day-storm-50-years-later-a-kitsap-perspective-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-44427 Marie Walmsley Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:25:51 +0000 http://pugetsoundblogs.com/forecasting-kitsap/?p=3531#comment-44427 I was in high school in Tillamook Oregon. I have definite memories of the storm. We lived in a mobile home in a mobile home park on the east side of town. I was used to storms in Oregon but this was the worst I’d seen ever. I was scared our mobile home was going to flip on its side. Our neighbors who lived behind us came and told us they were afraid of their trailer blowing over and were leaving to go to another family or friends home. At the worst of the windstorm we heard a huge crashing sound. My sister and I went to see what the noise was, the roof of our neighbors’ living room (it was an extended room on the side of the trailer) had blown open like a can opener had ripped it off. We ran over and got inside the trailer and moved as much of the furniture as we could out of the driving rain and into part of the trailer that still had a roof on it.I spent part of the night in our car because it was smaller and I felt safer than in the house. One of the lasting memories of the aftermath was the downed trees everywhere and the dead and bloated dairy cows in the flooded pastures in Tillamook county. I hope to never see such a storm again in this lifetime

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