It sounded like something that would happen during the Mission 66 years as Public Relations.
Right. Barbara, what do you remember in the way of significant events?
Barbara: The storm.
Oh! The Columbus Day storm! (12)
Barbara: Right! That was exciting! When we lived in the duplex (13), we had a swing-set in the circle in the front. There weren’t any houses there, and there were swings for the kids and so on, and the storm got worse and worse and worse and we wanted to look out but Bruce made us pull the drapes and stay back away from the windows in case a window went. And one of the trees came down right across and swing set, and you could just kind of a “boom”, you know, as trees went down all around, a lot of them went down. And some of them went down on the corner of a house in Sleepy Hollow and hit the water tank and water was spouting. That was the worst it did.
There were two houses in Sleep Hollow that were damaged, but they weren’t demolished. Of course, everybody all over Oregon who was around then remember that storm. The roads in the mountains and elsewhere too were closed by trees being down, that was quite a big mess. That was a hurricane strength storm.
Barbara: The next morning people that were coming, some of the kids in the park went to school in Chiloquin, and people in Fort Klamath who worked in the Park, and they drove up and met the trees and changed cars and went the other way!
Another significant event was in 1959 that the Coast and Geodetic Survey did their mapping of the bottom of Crater Lake. That was sonar sounding, I guess it was.
