My grandparents had a house at Neotsu they bought in the '40's and retired to in the early '60's. I too spent a great deal of time down there as a kid and boy did you nail it Jonny. My cousins and I learned to stick together when wandering the town. I had cousins who grew up there and I didn't particularly envy them. And yes, God bless resident beach girls. Kick ass fun but you don't want to bring them home to meet mom.......Lincoln City is a bizarre town. It needed a bypass in the old "Twenty Miracle (or miserable) Miles" days and it needs one now more than ever. Getting from one end of LC to another is soul crushing......
Rented a summer home in Depoe Bay. A nice small town between Lincoln city and Newport. Kept my fishing boat there, good times. Loved running the boat out of the hole in the wall. But... I learned fast to go to Newport. The only time we would go to Lincoln city was to shop at Bi-mart.
Don't know if it's "most" parts. South Beach and across the bridge is completely hosed, but most of Newport is above the tsunami line. https://pubs.oregon.gov/dogami/tsubrochures/NewportNorth-EvacBrochure_onscreen.pdf
I could just think about that possibility a lot, but being around the aquarium made me pretty nervous last week. Just the layout of the city, lots of the touristy stuff is pretty level with the beach. That's one reason I like LC. You usually have to go down a steep hill or steps to get to the beach.
I’m more scared about the big one when I’m sitting in traffic on the Marquam or Fremont bridges daily and can feel it moving around.
There are some spots in LC that have steep banks but Hwy 101 at the D River would get wiped out as well as part of Taft near the Siletz Bay at the South end of town. Oh - and Salishan would be no more!
Yep - They've had logs go through ground floor windows during big storms - imagine what a tsunami would do.
Always a great place to while away a lazy afternoon. An endless supply of genuinely interesting people......
Back in the 70's we'd often go to Depot Bay where many of the locals would hang out at the bar - Gracie was usually there.
20 minutes from blue ocean yet 2000’ feet elevation. I’m good. When the big one hits, I’ll re-buy on the Oregon coast.
