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Be scared, be VERY scared….so saith the media. Always something to keep the Low Infos scared and ignorant.
I would never trust some Kathryn Schulz that writes for the New Yorker……I don’t even care if she said water is wet
A broken clock tells true a couple of times a day. (Unless you get a digital display.) I tell some friends who fled the prairie winter for Vancouver Island that if an earthquake/tidal wave gets them I win, but if the Yellowstone supervolcano gets me it’s a draw because they won’t survive that either.
Both occurrences are imminent in geological time, but we’ll probably be dead already.
When the Lord finally hears the prayers you make through the intercession of St. Andrew,Kate, no, He won’t send just an earthquake. It’s the tidal wave that will scour coastal California clean of human detritus once and for all, allowing the people who once made California great to come back and rebuild.
Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans, succeeded in doing what generations of city politicians refused to do—destroying the Big Easy’s slums and forcing the riffraff to move on. City crime rates never again approached pre-Katrina levels.
The crime rates did skyrocket in Houston and many other towns where those riff raff ended up.
Everyone should look at the big picture, when the big one hits, most of these people will self evacuate, or die in place. In the mean time, before the tsunami hits, most, if not all will peacefully die of old age.
Squamish oil terminal. Sounds good to me.
And when it happens, you can bet your retirement savings that government-types will see it as caused by climate change and require you to pay them money to ‘fix’ it.
Civilization will end in twelve years so this law is totally irrelevant. 🙁
Well … the tsunami zone surely coincides with the global warming sea level rise zone. So is this more of an acknowledgement that global warming sea level rise is complete bullshit?
funny thing about sea level rise in Oregon…
Starting at the most northern tide gauge…the trend is about 9 inches a century
…but as you move south…each tide gauge shows a lower trend
until you get down to Crescent City….where sea levels goes the other way… and is falling
9 niches ? Sounds boastful …
Misleading picture. Spent an afternoon there and those homes are well above the beach and even if a tsunami sweeps them all inland, well so what. The areas that were destroyed in Japan have been rebuilt and this area would be rebuilt as well unless the green fascists completely take over and prevent it.
The New Yorker ‘cares’ about Cannon Beach?!
I’ve been to Cannon Beach but I never found the cannons!
The greater proximate danger is the sea lions taking a bite out of your gluteous maximus whilst swimming.
So now all the real estate contracts have clauses in them that state your home is in a plate tectonic subduction zone?
Catch the wave dudes…surfs UP…. WAY, WAY UP!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
People on Vancouver Island in the tourist industry never talk about the Oregon coast. It makes the island look like a dump. Seriously driving the 101 along the coast of Oregon is super awesome. Cold as heck at the peak of summer do be warned. Visit now before blumpf caused climate change destroys everything and everyone dies.
“Seriously driving the 101 along the coast of Oregon is super awesome.”
I would concur, especially on a motorbike when you can really lean into the corners, overlooking the MASSIVE WAVE coming in from the ocean! 🙂
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
“…the Oregon coast. It makes the island look like a dump. …”
I disagree. I believe the people on the island make it look like that.
Well, I think she might have a valid point. What would’ve been interesting to read on the other hand would’ve been the article she’d have written had the change been brought in by a Republican legislature and a Republican governor. Then it would’ve included allegations of, at least, planned ethnic cleansing…
Darwin.
Are we seriously supposed to avoid building anywhere a tsunami might hit? How absurd.
If you want to make your home in such a place I will no more try to stop you than to stop Kathryn Schultz warning you against it.
So where’s a town like Coos Bay supposed to put its fire hall? Way inland so it takes them 45 min to respond to a fire? How about the police station? Shall they have to bus their kids for an hour each way to school each day?
This was a dumb law and it needed to be overturned.
Oregon has been on a bit of a tear. They banned single-family zoning a few days ago.
The USG should end subsidized flood insurance. Then the cost of disaster will be born by those who risk it. Rational decisions can then take place.
in Or-Egone they have to worry about a sea rise from the melting Greenland ice cap. And that will be so fast, it will only take about 45 hundred years, that no one will be able to escape it!!!!!
Not that anyone asked, but here’s a 2015 article by the same author on what will happen when a major earthquake hits the Pacific Northwest.
Short version:
Major earthquakes occur in the Pacific Northwest every few hundred years, the last apparently in AD 1700.
Because most of the people who live there are white, few buildings there were built to survive the earthquake and the tsunami that will follow.
The earthquake will come without warning, because with such high demand for government cheese nobody ever seemed to find the money for an early warning system.
After the shaking stops, men in the inundation zone who value their lives will have ten minutes to run or drive at top speed to higher ground. Their wives will refuse to leave behind their mothers, their toy dogs, and the kids they know damn well aren’t their husbands’. The experts’ advice: leave them to their fate, boys. Better them than you.
And it will render the states of Washington and Oregon west of Interstate 5 uninhabitable for months, if not longer.
The love of the Lord endures forever. His patience, not so much.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
When teaching my kids defensive driving I tell them to imagine the other drivers, cyclists and pedestrians making the stupidest decisions possible and then prepare for that? It’s a joke but…
If you start from the position that humans often make irrational decisions then not much suprises you.
It should be made clear that taxpayers will not pick up the tab for personal property built in the inundation zone or subsidize insurance coverage. Build at your own risk. This also goes for flood plains and often hit hurricane zones.
What about Texas, Oklahoma, and the Tornado Alley that is the entire Midwest? Are they also “Build at Your Own Risk?”
What should happen when entire towns are wiped out?
Tornados are quite random and unpredictable. The risk of one hitting a particular spot vs. the total rangle of tornados (the majority of the landmass in north america) is quite low. The same community is rarely hit repeatedly. It is more like getting hit by lightning.
Building in repeatedly hit hurricane zones, flood plains, near an active volcano and tsunami inundation zones, the risk and the costs are much higher. It’s not if it will happen, it’s when will it happen. Geological evidence makes this clear.
Forest fire zones are somewhere in between, maybe.
I am suggesting that we immediately introduce an earthquake and tsunami tax. That should solve the problem and put everyone’s mind at rest.
The perfect liberal solution. Kind of like a carbon tax .
I realize I am late to the comments, but the flood of 2013 was another reason to leave Calgary. I did NOT build on the flood plain, my basement was NOT flooded, I had never claimed on insurance for the past 30 years but my insurance was going up by a terrific amount because of all the flood claims by the rich idiots who had built on the flood plain.