2 Die in Pacific Northwest Windstorm
A fierce windstorm that battered the Pacific Northwest over the weekend knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people, closed highways and killed two men.
Wind along the coast gusted to 115 mph Sunday at Cannon Beach, Ore., and 109 mph at Long Beach, Wash., the National Weather Service said.
Gusts hitting 81 mph at Netarts, Ore., pushed a house 12 feet off its foundation.
The Space Needle in Seattle was closed because of the unnerving effect as the 610-foot structure swayed in the wind, spokeswoman Mary Bacarella said. “The wind at the top was 100 miles an hour,” she said. “It moves about an inch for every 10 miles an hour.”
Waves 30 feet high struck the Oregon coast and a 140-foot tug lost its line to a log barge near Depoe Bay, spilling half its load of about 15,000 logs into the water.
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