UPDATE: The House Appropriations Committee has rejected a proposal by President Donald Trump to gut the nation’s tsunami warning system, a move one local official says could leave the West Coast vulnerable to destructives waves generated by quakes from thousands of miles away. According to the committee’s report, the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies […]
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Two Days That Shook Humboldt
Twenty-five years have passed since that warm spring morning on April 25, 1992, when the Cascadia subduction zone delivered a far-reaching message — a magnitude-7.2 earthquake that shook the ground with a force never before recorded in California. At 11:06 a.m. the streets appeared to pitch and roll as windows shattered, houses were knocked off […]
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Transformers
It seems like Humboldt County might be running out of golden watches, like one can’t turn a corner without bumping into another official who’s on the way out. After all, a pair of sheriff’s office stalwarts — lieutenants Steve Knight and Dave Morey — recently rode off into the sunset, and County Counsel Wendy Chaitin […]
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Long-Time Weather Boss Retires
After 36 years with the National Weather Service — 20 of those as the meteorologist in charge at the Eureka Weather Forecast Office on Woodley Island — Nancy Dean has retired. Her last day was today. “She’s been a great boss,” said Troy Nicolini on the phone this afternoon. “I feel really thankful. … I’ve […]
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A Goosenecking Sight at Clam Beach
I suspect I’m not the only Humboldt-er who finds myself meandering down the beach keeping a gentle eye out for seafaring debris from Japan’s 2011 tsunami – you know, a skiff, a soccer ball, perhaps a motorcycle? It’s fascinating to think these wayward objects, gone astray in the midst of one of this century’s worst […]
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The Last Man Out
Fishing Vessel Amanda B gleamed, white and pretty, amid the sunshine and wind-whipped rain enveloping the dock at Woodley Island last Thursday. Aboard the 45-foot fiberglass commercial fishing boat, crab fisherman Alan Mello kicked back in his pilot seat and laughed with his old childhood buddy Ted Scott, sitting at the bolted-down table, who’d come […]