By Lars Larson
NW and national radio host,
The Northwest Nonsense:
Tuesday’s earthquake and the tsunami warnings that followed offer the Pacific Northwest a bit of a warning.
The temblor near Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula at 8.8 magnitude is about the size of the quake predicted to happen someday in the Cascadia subduction zone off Oregon’s coast.
We best be ready for it.
Geological experts say that the Cascadia quake, in a worst case, would generate a wave 100 feet high on the Oregon coast.
Sadly, for citizens, the folks in charge of planning for that disaster are the same people mismanaging just about every problem we see in the Northwest.
Imagine Governor Kotek, who on a daily basis demonstrates her incapacity to handle relatively tame problems like housing, wildfires or mental illness and addiction in her own home…would cope with a disaster on that scale.
My old hometown of Tillamook sits so close to sea level that annual flooding is written into “flood days”on school calendars.
Almost 200-thousand people live on the North Oregon coast.
How fast can they expect any help from Salem…when just a few thousand people burned out by the Santiam Canyon fires five years ago are still waiting.
That’s the Rose City Rap. Join me at noon on KXL for 4 hours of Honestly provocative talk. I’m Lars Larson
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