Well, good that it got downgraded. Heh I dunno. They have the ocean on both sides. The top sign has it on the left and the bottom sign has it on the right.
About 10 years ago I had someone from Philadelphia visit me in Olympia. I took him to Mt Rainier one day and then the ocean the next. He noted that all the volcano evacuation zone signs by the mountain had people go toward Olympia, while all the tsunami evacuation zone signs at the coast had people go toward Olympia as well. I commented that the last time we had a "big one", what is now the downtown Olympia area sank something like 15 feet into Puget Sound. It seems like a great plot for a SyFy disaster movie.
It would be like one of those scenes from the original Star Trek series where the ship gets attacked and random crew members are running in opposite directions.
Which is why I’ve turned off all emergency alerts on my phone. Not a problem as long as I’m around other people who will keep me informed without the nerve-racking wail of a phone alert
Yeah, from the tsunami warnings and the cancellations I've had more phone calls today than all of November. Three calls in a day! Wow, crazy times.
Up in mid coast Oregon I got 3 calls and 3 messages, the last ones calling the “emergency off”. Just when we were packing all our belongings and pictures off the walls and the dog in the car. Nor really.
Well, at least I felt this one: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nn00888563/executive
Anyone here affected by the fire near Malibu? My wife’s aunt lives near downtown Santa Monica, (the one who worked for Raytheon lol) but she is alright.
My dad might be able to see the fire from his house, but that's from across the Santa Monica Bay. It's 20-30 miles as the airplane flies, and even farther as the car drives. I guess this doesn't help much.
I believe this new fire is burning more or less the same place that burned in the Corral Fire in 2007. I seem to recall being able to see the 2007 fire from Santa Monica.
Are you in SF? A friend of mine there posted about that warning. We didn’t get it where I live but it’s been a fierce storm.
I was looking for the infrastructure week thread but this will do. 1871360066848485691 is not a valid tweet id
This was a trip to see, been out there many times over the years. There were holes in that part of the wharf where you could look down and see sea lions lounging so it was kind of an attraction. I guess they'd already been having structural issues and working on it but Mama Nature beat them to the punch.
I found an article in SF Gate saying basically that the city knew they needed to fix it, but some community group was suing them to prevent any changes from being done to the pier. Which is kind of California infrastructure in a nutshell - NIMBYs suing to block things that need to get fixed. Article may be paywalled, but I don't subscribe and I was able to read it. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/santa-cruz-wharf-battles-19999847.php
BTW Colin Rugg is one of those 'indie journalists' who steals the work of actual journalists and others without credit. Block on sight! People should get paid for their work, and not have be ripped off by these influence grifters
The California economy, doomed by woke policies that drive all business out of the state, is set to overtake Germany as the 4th largest economy in the world.
As far as I know Germany is the third largest economy in the world before Japan and still quite a bit ahead of California, although I'm sure that will change in the next 10-15 years. California might have overtaken Japan's economy.
Is that an old chart? Because both Germany and California are over $4 trillion. California is about to overtake Japan. It's still a $few billion behind Germany according to the IMF.