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.: Corvallis Gazette-Times: Archives: "To find out how this storm compared with other (non-freaky) October storms, I consulted Wolf Read. Wolf is an OSU grad who moved away for a while but is back in town temporarily. He is helping me write a paper on a history of big Northwest wind storms (he will be lead author). Wolf loves studying wind storms. He also loves studying trees. And he has combined these passions into a true expertise in “wind throw” events — wind storms that are so strong that they knock down trees. Wolf knows more about wind throw than anyone I know. So when I asked him to compare the recent wind storm with other October blows, it didn’t take him long to come up with an answer: it was the biggest October wind storm in 25 years!"