Waitin'

They're going to start testing the tsunami siren every month out here at Elwha, beginning today at noon. The head of the Community Emergency Response Team says in an email, "The 'chimes' tone is to be activated for 10 seconds, followed by a verbal message for about 15 seconds. The chimes tone is probably the most pleasant of the sounds programed into the siren." Really curious to hear what a pleasant chime tone which warns you that the ocean is about to rise up and cover you might sound like...

Washington Department of Natural Resources offers us a Tsunami Inundation Map of the Port Angeles, Washington, Area. And NOAA offers us a not very pertinent but entrancing .mov file of the inundation of Ocean Shores, down the coast a ways...