GREAT COASTAL GALE OF 2007
ChinookObserver.com
December 2017 // Page 9
EYES OF THE STORM // PHOTOS FROM AROUND THE REGION
STORM FACTS:
The Willapa Hills
— Washington’s
portion of the
Coast Range —
drowned in 14 to
18 inches of rain
DAMIAN MULINIX
Dan Felt makes his way across a number of downed trees at a work party on the
property of Eric Callahan in Sunset Sands. Felt, whose brother Brian was the branch
president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Long Beach, came
down from Redmond to help clean up yards around the area.
DAMIAN MULINIX
AIR FORCE
Items like bread were in short supply but high demand for shoppers at Sid’s market
in Seaview, which was able to open by generator power. The shelves were picked
over for essentials like water, batteries, ice and bread.
The rural city of Vernonia was inundated by flooding Dec. 2 and 3, 2007. Then-Or-
egon Gov. Ted Kulongoski reviewed the damage from an Oregon Army National
Guard UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter.
DAMIAN MULINIX
This trailer, located on Birch Road off Cranberry, was
smashed like a tin can by a toppled tree.
ALEX PAJUNAS
ALEX PAJUNAS
A lamp provided some illumination in Courtroom 200
for Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis.
Allen Sutfin, of Westport, watches Adam Carmack of Kynsi Construction build up a rock wall to divert water from a
raging West Creek from flowing into his yard.
ALEX PAJUNAS
A few walls remained standing at the Svensen Co-Op,
but powerful winds leveled much of the building.
DAMIAN MULINIX
ALEX PAJUNAS
Heavy winds drive surf over the jetty and into the Port
of Ilwaco boat basin.
A road sign along the Warrenton-Astoria Highway near
Clatsop Airport Road lays flat on the ground.
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