Well, of course this weeks news would have to be about the tsunami alert...
The chicken Little responses apply here, far too many times are we told to 'go ahead...schedule that family reunion picnic", the weather will be "great", or, "NO ! do not plan on painting the house this weekend... it is going to rain", Tornado alerts and not a drop of rain, plywooding up for the hurricane that turned to sunshine, the mirror flat ocean under a gale warning, the tsunami alert that never arrives...we become hardened to false alarms, even laugh at the incompetent "the sky is falling" experts.
(excerpted from a very large Substack article in progress)
As our technology has advanced, our monitoring, understanding and advanced warning for all those "disaster" things, has developed the alert system to make it nearly impossible for you "not" to know of the alert and its danger. Over at our place the TV, three computers, and two cell phones all alarming, were like walking into a clock shop at 12 noon.
Later, the non-stop firehall siren filled in audibly for anyone who has no cell phone, we watched the fire trucks and lots of heavy equipment move out of downtown to higher ground, and there was a noticeably "heavier" traffic flow through town, but, even though almost all of Port Orford is at only around 40-45 foot elevation, not much concern was seen.
Here at Dena Lane our driveway is 41 feet above sea level, but, we have a low lying pair of swales between us and Arizona or 101 (that will fill to impassable at around the 25 foot water mark, the flotsam debris washing through the trees from the root washed uprooted trees will be lethal, do the math, we usually have a 20-30 minute warning envelope for close-in local quakes before their tidal surge hit-time.
If you have not watched the aerial views of the molasses like 2011 Japanese tsunami as it came ashore and spread over Sendai, Japan the over-the-breakwater surge was 35-45 foot high, and extended inland 6 miles after 2 hours time, no way to explain the process... you have to watch it evolve 'live", as it consumes unsuspecting freeway traffic, joggers, buildings, and homes to "know" what Tsunami really is.
Here are two, but, they need to be monitor screen viewed (not 2" cell phone) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ThCibkHQw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qolId9Fy3WE
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WIFI ALERT ! Sorry for the inconvenience, but, on Monday December 16th, the WiFi will be down from 0900 to (hopefully) 5PM for maintenance, so please plan ahead. Which brings up another topic... communications, always trying to avoid verbal orders or comments... it would be adviseable for us all to have a contact method of email or text for the 12, consider it please.
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We are supposed to have a new arrival at space 9 today, you are encouraged to join the meet-greet, and lend assistance.
This blog is no longer email "alerted" as being updated, it posts every Monday, you have the link.
You can contact us by email at whazammo@gmail.com or text by 541-366-8001 (sorry, we are phone-averse).
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