.... because .... here on the West Coast - it did happen !


Quote Originally Posted by Brooker
Trouble is, here in Seattle and other areas on the West Coast that get infrequent but very powerful earthquakes, that it's not taken seriously and prepared for enough because we don't get frequent reminders that we should be doing something about it. We're slated for a monster earthquake and I think it'll be bad news when it happens - much worse than in Japan because we're less prepared for it. Gotta live for the moment, I guess.
Well - following a Richter 7.0 'quake offshore .... tsunami warnings were posted from Mexico to Alaska.

The Californians responded, it seems ...

In Oregon they responded ... it seems ...

In Washington they responded ...

.... in British Columbia ..... we .... we ... we fell on our asses!

Even the chief media sources weren't informed ...!

A couple or three smaller towns on the West Coast of Vancouver Island were "in on it" - thanks to the Fire Department going door to door (!) ... but ...

... I work in an office on an Island in the middle of the Fraser river... in the delta ... I didn't even know about it until I saw the evening news - long after the alert was lifted !

I'm pretty mad about our Canadian version of "a sense of emergency"!

Views from any other Vancouverites ?

Perturbed ... but still dry and alive ....

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