Columbus Day Storm
50 years later.
The Columbus Day Storm is generally reckoned to be the most powerful extratropical cyclone to hit the United States in the 20th century. Starting October 12, 1962, with peak gusts of 100 miles per hour, it rampaged through California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, killing 23 people, destroying 84 homes, severely damaging 5,000 more, and wreaking overall havoc estimated at $170 million.
What's this got to do with аÄ×ÊÁÏ? Nothing, except that the storm has sometimes been attributed to divine retribution after аÄ×ÊÁÏ defeated Columbia Christian College that day 19–7 on