Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, January 7, 2015
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Winding Trails: by Al Hobart
Thursday, January 7, 1965 Illinois Valley
News,
Cave Junction,
Storm - Aftermath of the 1964
Christmas Flood
Please accept my earnest apology – I
started hollering “Uncle!” too late. Sure,
I wanted a nice storm, even a nasty-nice
one, just for some early winter fun, but I
didn’t ask for all this.
By the time I noticed what was
going on, that my nice storm in its wild
enthusiasm had forgotten about being nice
and was just plain nasty, its momentum
was so great and its mood so savage that
it just wouldn’t listen to reason. And so I
want to say that I’m sorry, and hope you
will heed my sincere and humble apology.
I promise that in the future when I send up
a request for a big storm there’ll be some
safety, anti-suffering riders included. The
clause concerning peoples’ homes will be
especially stressed.
The storm’s fury is past now and,
the strange and mighty river that was here
is gone, leaving our modest little Illinois
looking shaken and bedraggled, still
somewhat swollen from the severe beating
it has taken. Its familiar, pleasing attractive
banks have been mutilated beyond
recognition and left strewn with unsightly
debris – uprooted trees torn from its pre-
storm banks, thousands of waste logs,
limbs and stumps washed down from the
steep slopes of nearby logged-over areas
and left stranded along the newly carved
shores by the receding flood waters.
While it lasted, the raging flood cut
new channels, shortcuts paralleling the old
river bed, and leaving bare, debris-laden
islands where wide wooded river banks
existed before. Throughout the Valley a
number of important bridges across the
Illinois and its feeder-streams, much used
and needed by the Valley residents in their
daily scurryings from place to place, have
been washed away or badly damaged.
The Big Flood’s one concession to
our local populace was leaving at least one
bridge intact across every important river
branch. The narrow little bridge across
the East Fork, between the Michels and
O’Brien places, provided the only way for
the residents of O’Brien to drive to Cave
Junction, and thence, if desired, out of the
Valley; the Althouse and Sucker Creek
bridges at Bridgeview furnished the only
way out for folks south and east of those
two streams, the Sucker Creek bridge
almost compelled to give up, its injured
back bowed, but heroically withstanding
the flood’s ravages to fulfill its community
obligations – blessings on its stout
concrete heart.
My own few inconveniences due
to the disastrous storm are minuscule
compared with what many others in the
Valley suffered – water lines destroyed,
foot-bridge across Packer’s Creek washed
away, private road blocked by fallen
trees – piddling annoyances, really,
merely adding to an already cluttered-up
consciousness.
But it is exasperating at times,
like when I come in with dirty hands,
unthinkingly flip open the faucet and no
rushing stream splashes into the sink.
And when I find myself planning a trip
out, then suddenly realize that my road
is utterly impassable, and likely to be for
some time. I’m sometimes reminded of
the true situation by strange little noises
coming from the garage – my wee jeep,
Little Toot, pawing and snorting with
impatience to be hitting the trail.
Now the weather has turned colder,
the river is falling fast. The storm isn’t
over but it has suddenly assumed an
altogether different aspect – the downpour
of rain has changed to a heavy, quiet
snowfall. The ground outside is a solid
white, and the evergreen boughs all around
my cabin are sagging under the weight of
the new snow.
I was just struck with the thought
that I won’t have to trade off my new skis
for water skis after all, a procedure I was
beginning to consider a necessity. It looks
now like I’ll get to try them out after all.
The big storm and devastating
flood have brought considerable loss
and hardship to the Valley. The digging
out from under is in full swing, busy
crews scuttling back and forth making
the necessary repairs to our washed-out,
storm-battered community, a stupendous
job that will require a long time to
complete.
It has been a blow – in more senses
than one. But, as a wise old philosopher
was once heard to remark, in the face of
distressing adversity: This, too, will pass.
P.S. Another morning – with twenty-
one inches of snow all around my
cabin. Like the happy songster, I’ll be
“Walking in the Winter Wonderland” – on
snowshoes.
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Lawsuit (Cheryl Keil, Tony Smith) Public Hearing -Ordinance 540
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