| Title | High wind, big waves hit coast: Bay Ocean area cut off; beach homes battered |
| Publication Type | Newspaper Article |
| Year of Publication | 1948 |
| Authors | Anonymous |
| Secondary Title | Oregonian |
| Pagination | p.1 |
| Date Published | 4 Nov 1948 |
| City | Portland, Or. |
| Call Number | OSU Libraries: Valley Microfilm AN .U5 O66, Electronic Subscription |
| Keywords | Bay Ocean, Cannon Beach (Or.), climate, coastal hazards, Delake (Or.), Depoe Bay (Or.), Necanicum River estuary, Nelscott (Or.), Rockaway (Or.), Seaside (Or.), Siletz Bay, Taft (Or.), tidal data, Tillamook Bay, Tillamook Spit, wave height, weather |
| Notes | This article describes the marooning of the Bay Ocean community as the Tillamook Spit was severed. Other coastal damage is enumerated. “Gigantic combers off shore pushed water into the estuaries of coast mountain streams, increasing the size of the bay at the mouth of the Siletz river to six times its normal extent. Waves 10 to 12 feet high swept into the bay at Taft and up the river. A high tide of 9.1 feet was augmented by onshore winds… At Nelscott, considerable damage was reported from logs thrown into yards of beach front houses, while windows were smashed by flying debris … At Delake the waves pounded away a section of the seawall and threw gigantic logs into bay front buildings… A dock at Depoe Bay was torn out…” |