[IRCA] Storm (OT)

[mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx (Patrick Martin)]

Greetings,

As I sit here typing this, there is a 70 MPH wind gusting outside, but
nothing like the winds we went through nearly 3 weeks ago. This is a
garden variety strom which we are used to.  In listening to a report on
KAST Astoria this morning, giving a detailed account of our BIG strom.
They reported that this was the first time the U.S. Weather Service had
ever given a Hurricane Warning on the West Coast, as we don't really
have hurricanes per se, but they made an exception this time. For the
record, we had gusts out here between Seaside and Astoria of 143 MPH,
with sustained winds of 128. Naselle WA North of me, not even on the
coast, had wind gusts of 147 and Astoria had 129. We had swells of 50-60
feet.   Over 2800 stuctures in Clatsop County were distroyed or damaged.
No internet, cel, phone, 9-1-1 for several days and all highways leaving
the coast including 101, 30, and 26 were blocked by hundreds of trees
down. This one will go down in the history books as the biggest storm to
ever have hit the coast in recent history going back to at least the
1800's. 
I hope to never experience another like this in my life. Yet, I was
fortunate as my house stayed intact. But as I drive around Clatsop
County, the destruction is so apparant. Thousands of trees down
everywhere. Sure life is beginning to get back on track, but it will be
years until things really get back to normal, if nothing else to replant
all of the trees. Even where I live, looking across the lake from my
house, I can easily see homes I never used to see that easily, as now
there are no trees blocking the view.

73,

Patrick 

Patrick Martin
KAVT Reception Manager

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