By Walt Hickey Numlock recently started an Instagram, follow us there! Lest We Forget November 12, 1970 was Oregon’s finest hour. A 45-foot, 8-ton enormous sperm whale carcass had washed up on the beach near the coast by Florence, and engineers decided the best course of action was to blow it up with a half-ton of dynamite. This was a fiasco: fetid blubber rained from the skies, chunks that were hoped to be minuscule instead smashed cars, the smell was abhorrent, the
Loved that first story, but by the end of it, I wasn't feeling whale.
(Ducks and runs for the exit)