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Seaside prepares for ‘white-knuckle’ weather
Marine Board reminds
boaters to renew registration
The Astorian
‘THE BOB’
DARREN GOOCH
The Oregon State
Marine Board reminds
boat owners to renew their
boat registrations that
expire on Dec. 31.
There is no transaction
fee when using a credit or
debit card online at boat-
oregon.com/store.
Boat
owners are encouraged
to renew their boat reg-
istration online and will
receive their registration
decals through the mail
faster.
M
y wife and I opted to spend a
quiet Thanksgiving holiday
together this year.
We rented a nice little Airbnb in
Central Oregon and looked forward
to exploring the area, maybe going on
a couple of hikes and so forth. I have
spent a great deal of time over there and
I never get tired of the juniper and sage
smell in the air. Unfortunately, Mother
Nature had different plans this year.
“#Bombogensis” is what the folks
from the National Weather Service
were calling the storm building over the
Pacifi c, just off the coast of northern
California and southern Oregon in the
days before Thanksgiving.
It refers to the development of
a “bomb cyclone,” a weather pat-
tern that occurs when the air pressure
drops 24 millibars or more in a 24-hour
period, and this one dropped almost 40
millibars.
I kept tabs on the weather daily as
we planned to leave that Tuesday morn-
ing and I was getting a little worried
about our drive over the Santiam pass.
As it turned out, I did white-knuckle
it for 35 miles, the fresh powder snow
driven by high winds in the higher alti-
tudes created frequent whiteouts and I
struggled to see the road in front of me.
Thanks to a new set of snow tires on
the all-wheel drive Volvo, we arrived
safe at our destination and spent sev-
eral snow-fi lled days just east of the
Cascades.
While watching the news later that
Tom Horning
Billboard down in south Seaside after the storm of 2007.
week and the intense winds that came
along with the storm, I couldn’t help
but remember the storm of 2007 that
knocked out power and blew down
trees around our area.
It was 12 years ago this month that
we opened up the Bob Chisholm Com-
munity Center to the public, thanks to a
generator loaned to us by the National
Guard out of Camp Rilea.
We cooked well over 6,000 meals
that week with food donated by local
restaurants to help feed Seaside resi-
dents who were without power. Our
park district staff manned the kitchen
for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The
local Red Cross handed out blankets
and other supplies as well. It was a true
community effort to make sure our res-
idents were warm, safe, and didn’t go
hungry.
Our local ham radio operators made
sure we could maintain communi-
cations with the governor’s offi ce in
Salem and if you were lucky, there was
a spot out near the Cove where you
could get one bar of cell service and
contact family outside the area to let
them know you were safe. It was an
experience I will not soon forget and I
am glad that our community center was
able to serve Seaside residents in the
capacity it did.
I certainly hope that we don’t ever
have to deal with another bomb cycline
and the devastation it brings with it,
but if it does happen, I am thankful for
such a great community, one that pulls
together to care for its residents the way
Seaside does!
Every month, The BOB will bring
you information on current events and
items of interest here at the center. See
you next month!
Another option is to mail
the payment and coupon to
the marine board. Regis-
tration decals are mailed
within 7-10 business days
from the date of receipt, but
may take an additional two
to four weeks to arrive by
U.S. mail.
Any watercraft with
a motor or sailboats 12
feet or longer is required
to title and register with
the marine board. Reg-
istration fees vary based
on boat length. The fee
table can be found at bit.
ly/336ex1N.
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we think of when we think “dog.”
Imagine all those befuddled creatures
surrounded by crates and gates and
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I’m not suggesting that we fl ing
open our doors and wave goodbye to
the tail end of our best friends until
they decided that we meet again. In
a society such as ours, this would be
very dangerous for them. Neverthe-
less, it’s enlightening to consider the
differences and potential ramifi cations.
While this isn’t true for everyone,
generally speaking, our relative free-
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dogs in any manner that we please.
The 80% do not and would not toler-
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They don’t have to. They can liter-
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The employees at Wyndham in downtown
Seaside embraced the holiday spirit this year by
raising $2,000 to help feed the hungry over the
holidays. The company stepped in and matched
the money they raised with an additional $2,000.
The Wyndham staff took the combined $4,000
and went shopping at Costco for items that the
South County Community Food Bank could
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