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The Columbus Day storm of 1962 (also known as the big blow of 1962, [2] and originally in Canada as Typhoon Freda) was a Pacific Northwest windstorm that struck the West Coast of Canada and the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States on October 12, 1962.
The Columbus Day Storm was a monster the size of a coastline. Today, meteorologists call it the most severe nontropical storm in the history of the lower 48 states. It blew down 15 billion board ...
The largest storm events have struck the Pacific Northwest every 15 to 30 years according to modern records. Among the strongest were the 1962 Columbus Day storm , which formed from the remnants of Typhoon Frieda/Freda and killed 50 people; the 1993 Inauguration Day windstorm, which killed 6 people; and the 2006 Hanukkah Eve windstorm , which ...
The extratropical remains of Freda would continue east through the Pacific Ocean, making landfall in the Pacific Northwest of Canada & the United States on October 12, 1962. This same storm was named the Columbus Day Storm [2] in the United States, where it caused $235 million in damage and the deaths of 46 people. In the early hours of October ...
Typhoon Freda (1962) (T6223, 72W) – a typhoon which formed and remained in the open ocean but later struck the west coast of Canada and the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States as a potent extratropical cyclone, and became known as the Columbus Day Storm of 1962.
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In what would be called the Columbus Day Storm, Typhoon Freda killed 46 people on the west coasts of Canada and the U.S., with winds of more than 145 miles per hour (233 km/h) and causing more than $230 million damage to the U.S. states of California, Oregon and Washington.
"It should be changed to Horrible at Geography Day, since Columbus was about 1/2 a hemisphere off." And actually, Minneapolis is not the first to modify its observance of the holiday.