![]() Inauguration Day Storm of January 20, 1993 Many people still remember this poorly-timed storm that knocked out electricity to 270,000 homes around Puget Sound around midday on Thanksgiving 1983, and ruined countless turkey dinners. Thanksgiving Day Storm of November 24, 1983 On Monday, November 16, with the blustery weather continuing outside, the Seahawks beat the San Diego Chargers inside the Kingdome on Monday Night Football, 44-23. Another casualty of the storm was a historic round barn north of the town of Skamokawa on the lower Columbia River. Winds gusted over 70 mph, shutting down both the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. More than 400,000 were without power along the I-5 corridor in Western Washington in the wake of the storms. The aftermath wreaked havoc for travelers and commerce, and ferry service across Hood Canal was started up again until the bridge could be replaced.įriday the 13th and Sunday the 15th Double Storms of November 1981Īt least two storms (beginning on Friday the 13th) were responsible for a total of 12 deaths in Oregon and Washington, including a man on Maury Island electrocuted during the first storm by a downed power line. One man died when a tree fell on his vehicle near Cosmopolis in Grays Harbor County. Winds gusted to 60 mph at Sea-Tac Airport and damaged the original 1963 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, but the brunt of this storm hit Kitsap County, with wind gusts higher than 70 mph that sunk the west half of the Hood Canal Floating Bridge. Hood Canal Bridge Storm of February 13, 1979 Like the storm expected Saturday evening, the Columbus Day Storm had roots in a typhoon in the Western Pacific, with a low-pressure cell tracking close to the coast. The Pacific Northwest’s most infamous storm did about $2 billion in damage (in 2016 dollars) from Northern California to British Columbia, and 46 people were killed. A farmer died near Roy in Pierce County, and an 18-year old student at what was then Pacific Lutheran College was killed when a branch knocked a power line down onto her outside the Student Union Building. Damage during “The Intense Cyclone” included downed trees and power lines. ![]() The wind gusted to an unbelievable 161 mph at an exposed Cold War radar site atop Naselle Ridge near the mouth of the Columbia River, and gusted to 59 mph at Sea-Tac Airport. Dozens of passengers on the famous steamer Virginia V escaped injury when that vessel struck the dock at Ollala during the storm. Other deaths were caused by falling trees, downed electrical wires, and the collapse of a wall in a downtown Seattle hotel. Newspaper headlines called it “THE WORST GALE IN HISTORY,” and reported at least 17 had died, including five fisherman who went down in the purse seiner Agnes off of Port Townsend. There were reports of 59 mph gusts in downtown Seattle 70 mph gusts at Boeing Field and 90 mph on the Washington coast. The United States was deep in the Great Depression when this storm struck 82 years ago. ![]()
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