Like the famous Columbus Day storm 40 years before it, Thursday’s freak storm threw a sucker punch at East Linn county, plunging towns and thousands of homes into the cold, winter night.
The sneaky twist of weather arrived with a vengeance Thursday afternoon and sent hundreds of trees thundering to the ground–several landing on homes. Nature’s wratch caused power outages to some 50,000 electrical customers in Western Oregon for days.
The wicked winds hit fast…