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Op-Ed
As Rod Serling would say: “Imagine if you will…” A man arrives home in the evening exhausted from work one day. Driving up towards his garage he presses the garage door opener and the door opens and then closes again immediately before he gets a chance to drive in. The door opens and closes repeatedly in convulsive antics preventing him from parking in his garage.
SALEM — Oregon has a new playbook for preparing and responding to a major earthquake that dictates what should be tackled over time versus a list of tasks to get done.
The Northwest is already feeling the effects of climate change and the situation is only expected to get worse, especially the weather, according to a national climate assessment.
During disasters, they do whatever needed to ensure emergency messages get to where they need to go.
In the minutes after the false missile EAS alert was delivered in Hawaii, there was a great deal of general confusion — a lack of communication, general perplexity about the next steps, and phone call after phone call that didn’t get through to the right recipients.
The Daily Astorian -- Clatsop County isn’t as far along in prepping for a Cascadia earthquake and tsunami as Tiffany Brown, the county’s emergency manager, would prefer. But that’s nothing to be ashamed of, given that the region only realized the full magnitude of the threat within the last decade.
The Daily Astorian - On Tuesday, Columbia Memorial staff practiced setting up a field hospital in the outfield of Astoria Middle School, the agency’s designated evacuation spot for a Cascadia Subduction Zone rupture.
