Almost killed in an ice storm out there in 2002 or was it 2003? Had to deliver a plane to Astoria along the coast. I got so iced up in the mountains I had to land at cruise speed to keep control from all the ice. The weather is as wildly extreme as the people.
Why do you think I love it? It used to be a mixture 'mind your own bidness Libertarians', good old boys, Grange farmer types, a bunch of Trotsky type commies and a few inbreds for local color.
Sadly, it's becoming a cookie cutter, politically correct, goose stepping copy of California :^(