Tsunami Advisory

We spent the night at Patrick's Point State Park. The highway was opened back up to Northbound traffic after 6pm so we drove up to Stone Lagoon and were relieved to find the water never came up high enough to breach the sand bar between the lagoon and Pacific Ocean and all was fine with our camping spot. Yea! Unfortunately, Crescent City, CA and Brookings, OR harbors did not fair as well. It appears they were severly damaged and many boats were lost.  A sad blow to the depressed economy in these areas. This article says it all!

Tsunami Warning

Well, we woke up around 3 AM to a voice mail message from the ranger that there were Tsunami Warnings and we were required to evacuate by 7 AM. We are 1/4 mile from the beach across Stone Lagoon and our elevation is about 5 feet above sea level.  So, the good news is all of our possessions are movable. Laton hooked up the 5th wheel and we were settled in at Patrick's Point State Park 15 miles south and at 280 feet above sea level by 6 AM. It was a beautiful, sunny day and we spent the day watching the surges continue for most of the day from Patrick's Point (a nice high cliff). I checked in with my family in Crescent City and all were fine. My sister was at a conference in San Francisco, CA and she said she was fine. A couple of her sons and their families had to evacuate and are spending the day at her home. It has been a scary day. Here is a link to a map of the areas affected by the surges.  On the first map, we are located approximately by the fourth red bar from the top. Another map on the page shows Crescent City and we are about 50 miles south of there.