January 29 - The 1921 Great Olympic "Blowdown"

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!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices