January 29 - The 1921 Great Olympic "Blowdown"
- Author
- The Weather Network
- Published
- Sat 29 Jan 2022
- Episode Link
- https://www.theweathernetwork.com/
Just some of the destruction that you'll hear about in the full podcast:
The destruction:
Hurricane-force winds destroyed billions of board-feet of timber across the Olympic Peninsula.
Over 40 percent of the trees on the southwest side of the Olympic Mountains were blown down.
**The Great Olympic Blowdown felled eight times more trees than the eruption of Mount St. Helens back on March 27, 1980!!
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