I’ve always said “you pick your home, you pick your natural disaster”.

The last Big One was in January 1700. On average, they happen every 240 years. We are wa-a-a-ay overdue.

https://www.politico.com/news/...ard-tsunami-00058594

Well written, and interesting news to me.

Thanks.

I left an earthquake zone in Missouri to live below an earthen dam. damn

I used to work in a building that was in a river valley. The river was long gone when they lowered the lake it fed by about 11 feet.

about 40 miles upstream, another river in that system was dammed (earthen dam) in the early 1960s. About 15 years ago, someone noticed a trickle of water where a trickle shouldn't be. Everyone freaked out and figured the dam was going to give way and flood the entire valley to a depth of six to ten feet. Every major business built a wall of sandbags around it, including our building (mostly because we had the flight simulators in our building). We waited. We all got new laptops so we'd be able to work from home if the building shut down for weeks. We waited. Nothing happened. We waited a couple of years.

Finally, after much inspection and investigation, the news leaked out...

When they were building they dam, first they dug a culvert to divert the river. Apparently when the dam was finished, instead of removing the culvert, they just put a couple sheets of plywood over the end. After 45 years, the plywood rotted and started to fall apart. That was the source of the trickle.


For a few months after that, you could get all the sandbags and sand you wanted for real cheap.

The article said that Oregon was better prepared than Washington. That's a scary thought. As far as I can tell, Oregon's preparedness consists of sounding an alarm with (hopefully) enough time to give the low-lying coastal residents time to run to higher ground. And I use the term "run" advisedly, because there are only a few roads that lead up in elevation at the coast. The main drags just hug the coastline. On the other hand, a lot of the coast is fairly narrow, as in a small area of beach then a high series of cliffs/mountains/hills. I hope to never have to test the adequacy of the preparations.