Gale Sayers. Knee injuries cut short the brilliant football career of running back Gale Sayers, but not before the Kansas Comet was recognized by the National Football League (NFL) as the greatest running back in the first 50 years of the league's history.
Ocean Shores, Washington, gets 78 inches of rain per year. The US average is 39. Snowfall is 2 inches. The average US city gets 26 inches of snow per year. The number of days with any measurable precipitation is 119.
The Biggest Ocean Wave Ever Recorded Measured 1,740 feet! September 28, 2012 â The Biggest Wave Ever Recorded Measured 1,740 feet: That monster wave was in Lituya Bay on the southern coast of Alaska in 1958. An earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale hit the area and shook loose an estimated 40 million cubic yards of dirt and glacier from a mountainside at the head of the bay.