As someone who has a house on the coast... this is an interesting topic for me. Oregon coast isn't very well prepared. There are a few signs and all... but the north south traffic pattern and already overcrowded roads will make some places death traps. Where we stay is just out of the Tsnunami zone... but it is a little too close for comfort. Do we stay or try to head through more dangerous area for higher ground? That is of course if we even had the time... which is a big if.
The Long beach Penninsula is a coffin for a tidal wave. No escape routes. It'll just be swallowed up and everyone along with it.
Records show that 20 earthquake-generated tsunamis have struck the Northwest in the last 10,000 years — an average of one tsunami every 500 years. The last one happened nearly 310 years ago, on January 26, 1700. Fear causes irrational behavior. Millions of dollars for buildings that may or may not withstand a tsunami that may or may not happen once sometime in the next few hundred years and may or may not give enough advance warning for anyone to get to the buildings anyway. I'd like someone other than Yumei Wang, of the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries in Portland, to be deciding the direction of my tax dollars please. In fact, I could post non-stop better and more useful ways to spend tax dollars for weeks if I was so inclined. I question her ability to think contructively and creatively. I'm certain there are more qualified people to do her job. What's next? Volcano-proof buildings all around the base communities of each and every Cascade Mt? Bee-proof buildings everywhere? People are dying every second from every cause imaginable and she thinks we should waste money on the least likely scenario which probably won't even happen in our lifetimes? Nut job.
And yet you're willing to put your life in the hands of a select group of bureaucrats who will tell you what health care you can and cannot receive.
