(Hopefully NorCal Dan will report in that they are fine since their workcamping gig is right on the Pacific Ocean.)
Last night our weather radio went off to tell us about the earthquake in Japan and to warn us about tsunamis coming into Santa Barbara, CA area, which is where we are. Luckily we are inland in Santa Maria at over 200' elevation so we are safe and did not do anything. But we have stayed in places that would not be safe, like the Elks lodge in Oceano, CA about 20 miles from here, and other campgrounds in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. If we were in one of those locations last night we would have evacuated, just like the news says they evacuated the Pismo Beach RV Park.
I remember that for years people would steal the tsunami route signs along the Oregon and Washington coasts as souveniers, but once the big Indonesia quake hit the signs only needed replacement when they wore out.
NorCal Dan said
02:36 PM Mar 11, 2011
We're ok. I notified all our campers around 0100 hours and then watched the news all night. We made preparations to evacuate but they never upgraded Washington above advisory level, and the Hawaii video didn't look bad so we decided to stay put...a couple of our hosts went to Raymond for the night but returned early this morning. A rather interesting night/morning...
(Hopefully NorCal Dan will report in that they are fine since their workcamping gig is right on the Pacific Ocean.)
Last night our weather radio went off to tell us about the earthquake in Japan and to warn us about tsunamis coming into Santa Barbara, CA area, which is where we are. Luckily we are inland in Santa Maria at over 200' elevation so we are safe and did not do anything. But we have stayed in places that would not be safe, like the Elks lodge in Oceano, CA about 20 miles from here, and other campgrounds in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. If we were in one of those locations last night we would have evacuated, just like the news says they evacuated the Pismo Beach RV Park.
I remember that for years people would steal the tsunami route signs along the Oregon and Washington coasts as souveniers, but once the big Indonesia quake hit the signs only needed replacement when they wore out.