I read about Lewis and Clark's arrival and stay in Oregon and they said there was a long, long stretch of flood rains followed by a huge windstorm that knocked over most of the trees in site.....I think that one trumps the modern storms....apparently this happened to the entire NW at the time.....lot of Brits left Washington after that storm...giving up settlements. I think it was Stephen Ambrose's "Undaunted Courage" great book....
im driving from central OR to pdx before xmas. the idea of chains is so foreign to me. might just skip the mountain passes altogether and go around.
lol i was a sophomore in HS that year and i was so pissed that finals/school got canceled. i needed to make up my grade for a few classes and wasn't given the chance to.