[or-roots] timing of the front

[Aileen Itzen]

The October storm hit Corvallis between 3 & 5:30 p.m.  Right when school 
busses were on the road trying to get the kids home.  Aileen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:37 PM
Subject: [or-roots] timing of the front


> Carla;
>
> You are forgetting that storms move in a front, in Western Oregon 
> generally
> speaking our "weather" comes from the Southwest and moves thence in a
> northeasterly direction, so a storm that you saw in Canyonville at two pm
> and moving at 50 mph wouldn't reach Portland until six pm, and mind you 
> that
> is a fast moving storm, my partner and I had a job in Springfield this
> summer and often we would leave the coast in a rain storm, arrive at the 
> job
> site in good weather and up to three hours later the rain would catch up 
> to
> us. Also assuming that the front doesn't pause along the way, I know of a
> couple of storms in my life that have done that and really raised heck 
> where
> they paused.
>
> Les C
>
>
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] typhoon
>
>
> I'm a little puzzled by your post...it sounds as though you are describing
> the storm hitting at night.  In the area of S. Oregon where I was living 
> at
> the time (Canyonville on the I-5 corridor) the storm was mid to late
> afternoon.  It blew through and was gone in fairly short order although it
> was somewhat windy through the evening and night following. We all stood 
> at
> the window (not such a bright idea in retrospect) of the English Classroom
> in Canyonville High School and watched big pieces of metal roofing 
> cartwheel
> down the street. It seems that we really didn't feel the brunt of the 
> storm
> because damage in our area was relatively minor...trees down and power out
> (but that happens every winter); damage to farm buildings, etc.  The storm
> seemed to follow the S. Umpqua River with damage greater in that area.  My
> grandparents lived near LaCenter, Washington and their farm lost a huge 
> old
> barn that was solid and in good repair when it blew down.  So it would 
> seem
> to me that the storm was much stronger as it came along the Columbia 
> River.
>
> Carla
>
>
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