A few years back, following a devestating Japanese earthquake, the entire California coast was under Tsunami warning. My family and I just looked at each other unaware of what to do. Were we supposed to all drive to Alpine or something? How far inland should you be concerned? We stayed intently glued to the television news for instructions, but the news never mentioned it again except sporadically during regularly scheduled weather reports. The turned to the weather channel and were horrified as they reported; "74 degrees and sunny in San Diego, should be a beautiful day. I am being advised that the county of San Diego is under a Tsunami watch, so if they are still around tomorrow it will be a beautiful 74 degree day."
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San Diego Students Get A Lesson On Tsunami Preparedness
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A few years back, following a devestating Japanese earthquake, the entire California coast was under Tsunami warning. My family and I just looked at each other unaware of what to do. Were we supposed to all drive to Alpine or something? How far inland should you be concerned?
We stayed intently glued to the television news for instructions, but the news never mentioned it again except sporadically during regularly scheduled weather reports.
The turned to the weather channel and were horrified as they reported; "74 degrees and sunny in San Diego, should be a beautiful day. I am being advised that the county of San Diego is under a Tsunami watch, so if they are still around tomorrow it will be a beautiful 74 degree day."
March 28, 2012 at 8:51 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )