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Wilma Clark stands outside her home in Idleyld Park Thursday. Clark recalls thinking the 1962 Columbus Day Storm was a tornado. A peach tree in her front yard was pulled up by the roots and blown away.
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Roseburg's Denny Pope was a freshman at Oregon State University when the 1962 storm tore through Corvallis. He remembers dodging a falling fir tree that left a crater in the sidewalk on campus.
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Photograph Photographic print b&w 4x5 inches Aftermath of Columbus Day StormAirplane wreckage, Portland Airport Portland Oregon United States 10/1962
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John Ferguson of Roseburg rode out the Columbus Day storm of 1962 during a band practice session at the University of Oregon, where he was a student at the time.