Severe Weather on the Pacific Coast

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 15, 1880

Severe Weather on the Pacific Coast

The Pacific coast has boasted over the eastern climate about long enough. Now it comes back in this wise: Five feet of snow reported on Puget Sound, January 8, the fall was heavy on Vancouver's Island, and throughout that country. A regular tornado visited Oregon Jan. 9, extending over a large part of the State, and what is singular, it lasted over three hours. The damage was immense, but the real amount cannot yet be well judged, as communication was broken up, both by railroad and telegraph. The wind traveled at the rate of 60 miles an hour part of the time. Houses were leveled, but the greatest damage is supposed to be of timber, fences, and fruit trees. The winter throughout California has been of unusual severity.