The Beautiful Oregon Coast

In my past 12 years living on the Oregon coast there have been 2 tsunami warnings, but fortunately no tsunami’s materialized. The city of Coos Bay has added a number of warning sirens to help residents should a tsunami be poised to hit the coast. However, the sirens are far too few and not nearly loud enough to hear by most residents. We have one siren which is no more than a quarter of a mile from my house which is tested each Wednesday at noon. Even if I am outside I can barely hear the siren and the same is true for most residents. The city needs to amp up there efforts to provide louder and more sirens to protect the residents of Coos Bay, North Bend, Empire and Charleston Oregon. I have a page about Tsunamis which can be reached from my homepage which explains how tsunamis are formed and why the Oregon coast is a potential danger zone for an actual Tsunami. The page can also be reached by following this link about potential Tsunamis.

I am looking for new articles about Coos Bay events. To encourage you to write I am offering you a picture of your choice from my vast archive of Oregon pictures. Please send me your ideas for articles, or the actual article via my email page.

I just posted the tides for the next few days and there are some very good days for clamming. The low tides late in the afternoon are at -1FT or more. Should you have questions or just need some general help please contact me.

http://soldiersangels.org/

I was given the above website address from one of my newsletter subscribers. It is an “adopt” a soldier site. All it will cost you is $1.00 to verify you are who you are and commit to write one letter a week and send one care package a month. Postage for letters and packages are the same as if they were domestic. I suggest that you use a priority flat rate box because you can load it up to 50 lbs all for one price regardless where it goes. Please help support our troops.

The commercial dungeness crabbing fleet is having a better that expected year. Last year was miserable for the fishermen, but as of last week the amount of crabs brought into the processors has well exceeded 100 million pounds. Recreational crabbing is also quite good, but as the rains continue and the freshwater pours into the bay the crabs will begin to move further out to sea. A rule of thumb is: the more rain = poor recreational crabbing and better commercial crabbing. The dungeness crabs have a low tolerance for freshwater. Prices in the stores are running about $4 per pound – down almost a dollar over the past couple of years.