T.O.D.
Columbus Day 1962. It was a Friday night, and as usual I was going to the Proctor Theater, along with a lot of my friends. While I was eating dinner, I heard the newscaster on TV talking about this big windstorm in Portland, Oregon. That didm't mean anything to me. About an hour into the first movie, the power went out and the emergency lights came on in the back. We went up to the lobby to see what was going on. The theater owner, Mr. Spencer was telling this large group of us in the lobby that no one was leaving the theater until we had called our parents to come and get us. He said there was a large storm outside, and it wasn't safe for any of us to walk home. Just then, the theater door opened and there was my mother! She had been at a meeting at church when the power went out. She saw how bad the storm was becoming so she stopped to see if she could find me and take me home. That was the first and only time I ever remember being in winds over 100 miles an hour. The damage the next day was mindbending.