This Friday marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most powerful storm systems ever to strike the United States - a storm that produced wind gusts over 170 miles per hour, damaged thousands of homes, and killed dozens of people. But it wasn't a hurricane; it wasn't a Nor'easter; it wasn't a tornado in the Plains. The Columbus Day windstorm that struck the Pacific Northwest on Oct. 12, 1962, was just one example of the fury Mother Nature has unleashed on the West over the course of American history....
...The deadliest flash flood in the history of the Western U.S. occurred in the north-central Oregon town of Heppner on June 14, 1903.
A small but intense thunderstorm parked south of Heppner over the watersheds of Willow Creek, sending water rushing downstream.
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