T.O.D.
I guess we have had a couple of severe wind storms, and a couple of major earthquakes.
The worst storm was the Columbus Day Storm of 1962. It was on a Friday night. I can remember while eating dinner in the kitchen, I could hear on the TV in the living room them talking about this huge windstorm in Oregon. Well, Hell, nobody said it was coming our way. So my mom had a meeting at church and I was going to the Proctor Theater, as I did most every Friday night. About an hour into the movie, the power went out in the theater and the movie stopped. By the time my friends and I got up to the lobby the owner, Mr. Spencer, was blocking the doors so that no one could open the main doors. He was saying over and over again that no one was allowed to leave, but that everyone had to call their parents to come and pick them up. The line formed to use the one phone, so my friends and I went upstairs to the bathroom where there was a window in the hallway that looked out on the street. Stuff like garbage cans and newspaper boxes and everything else that wasn't tied down was flying down the street and you could tell that lights were out everywhere. By the time we got back downstairs, my mom was at the theater door looking for me, so I got to leave. On the ride home, the trees were coming down everywhere, but our house was safe and sound. The only thing we lost was out garbage. The next day, I found our garbage can about a block from the house, but we never found any of the garbage. There was something like $200 million in damage between Washington and Oregon, and something like 40 people died.
