Tsunami Alert Finds Areas That Need Improvement...
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Our Neighborhood Watch alerting system took a hit with the tsunami alert. The Parks'(Neighborhood Watch Co-ordinator) were not home to start the chain of phone calls to the block captians. Jim McCrea is their back-up but he and Marylin are in Alaska. Buzzy Byerrum started the ball rolling here by taking it on herself to notify the block captians. We all owe her a big warm fuzzy hug for this quick action... Thanks a lot Buzzy.
The city of Newport does not have an air raid siren that they could activate... On the other hand Ed Simon says they do but it doesn't work but there was a future plan to maybe get it to work... Jim Rose says the fire department said the salt air is corrosive to the sirens and that's why we don't have them. Depot bay seems to have no trouble maintaining theirs. It was working yesterday along with the one in Tillamok ( I would rebuild and help keep one up for free. I used to maintain fog horns and alarms on the oil platform).
People had nowhere to go for really accurate information. Jim Dodds called us with a link from his website that hooks upto the government's Tsunami Warning site and we put it on here long after the announcement. Thanks to him we will be putting the link on the left side of this page on the top in red. You can go there for the most accurate and uptodate information.
We were only able to get a local fm radio station reporting on the alert but they didn't have the complete information. So know that you can get this information here by clicking the new tsunami alert link. Neighbors that don't have a computer could be notified by those that do. If they don't have a computer maybe we should start giving away the 3 spares in the clubhouse. This is just another reason people need a computer.
Why? Last night Jacky called her Neighborhood watch list and others to warn them... One person... Ruthanne Carson, was going to go to Depoe Bay to watch the Sunset completely unaware of the Tsunami warning. Another person was going downtown to eat.
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Our Neighborhood Watch alerting system took a hit with the tsunami alert. The Parks'(Neighborhood Watch Co-ordinator) were not home to start the chain of phone calls to the block captians. Jim McCrea is their back-up but he and Marylin are in Alaska. Buzzy Byerrum started the ball rolling here by taking it on herself to notify the block captians. We all owe her a big warm fuzzy hug for this quick action... Thanks a lot Buzzy.
The city of Newport does not have an air raid siren that they could activate... On the other hand Ed Simon says they do but it doesn't work but there was a future plan to maybe get it to work... Jim Rose says the fire department said the salt air is corrosive to the sirens and that's why we don't have them. Depot bay seems to have no trouble maintaining theirs. It was working yesterday along with the one in Tillamok ( I would rebuild and help keep one up for free. I used to maintain fog horns and alarms on the oil platform).
People had nowhere to go for really accurate information. Jim Dodds called us with a link from his website that hooks upto the government's Tsunami Warning site and we put it on here long after the announcement. Thanks to him we will be putting the link on the left side of this page on the top in red. You can go there for the most accurate and uptodate information.
We were only able to get a local fm radio station reporting on the alert but they didn't have the complete information. So know that you can get this information here by clicking the new tsunami alert link. Neighbors that don't have a computer could be notified by those that do. If they don't have a computer maybe we should start giving away the 3 spares in the clubhouse. This is just another reason people need a computer.
Why? Last night Jacky called her Neighborhood watch list and others to warn them... One person... Ruthanne Carson, was going to go to Depoe Bay to watch the Sunset completely unaware of the Tsunami warning. Another person was going downtown to eat.
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