A Deadly Wind: The 1962 Columbus Day Storm (Signed!) [B1825]

2018 signed PB in nice clean condition. The Columbus Day Storm of 1962 was a freak of nature, a weather outlier with deadly winds topping one hundred miles per hour. The storm killed dozens, injured hundreds, damaged more than fifty thousand homes, and leveled enough timber to build one million homes. To find an equally ferocious storm of its kind, fast-forward fifty years and cross the continent to Superstorm Sandy's 2012 attack on the East Coast. While Superstorm Sandy was predicted days in advance, the Columbus Day Storm caught ill-equipped weather forecasters by surprise. This unrivalled West Coast windstorm fueled the Asian log export market, helped give birth to the Oregon wine industry, and influenced the 1962 World Series. It remains a cautionary tale and the Pacific Northwest benchmark for severe windstorms in this era of climate change and weather uncertainty. From its genesis in the Marshall Islands to its final hours on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, the storm plowed an unparalleled path of destruction. In A Deadly Wind, veteran journalist John Dodge tells a compelling story spiced with human drama, Cold War tension, and Pacific Northwest history. This is a must-read for the tens of thousands of storm survivors, for history buffs, and for anyone interested in the intersection of severe weather events and climate change.

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "As the fiftieth anniversary of the storm approached, the author, a reporter, learned that no book had been published about the historic storm. He burrowed into the records and followed leads that introduced him to storm survivors. He spoke with reporters and meteorologists who were on duty at the time. He assembled this narrative that leads us from the background to the storm's formation, trans-Pacific movement and its 'assault' on the west coast from Northern California to Vancouver Island, B.C. Dodge was a reporter and his research and writing reflect that POV. It's a well organized book, informative, and easy to read."; "John Dodge did an excellent job bringing this story to life."; "Much more than a simple account of the storm, the author shows how the affects of the storm shape life in the Pacific Northwest today. A humane story of the lives touched by the storm, grounded in contemporary history."

Note from Susan: The 1962 Columbus Day storm is why my Yreka, California family settled in Olympia when I was 7 years old, instead of continuing our move to Alaska :)