Saturday, May 20, 2006

Newport News-Times: Guide helps residents get ready for disasters:

By Barton Grover Howe Of the News-Times Fourteen/twelve days until T-Day.

Any day, an earthquake could shake Lincoln City right down to its foundations.
And then a tsunami could sweep half the debris - and citizens - out to sea.
And if that doesn't get you, a snowstorm could bury the county as it did in 1950. Or a windstorm could pummel the coast at it did in 1962. And 1981. And 1996.
And then of course there's the area's long-term history of forest fires ...

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