Keeping Terrible Tilly lit was hard, scary, expensive

Tillamook Rock gets the worst weather in the state — weather that drives waves that sometimes break over the top of the lighthouse. When they do, they sometimes carry with them boulders torn off the basalt bluff below. (Tillamook Rock, Tillamook County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1511b.storms-on-tillamook-rock-364.html)