As the weather calms down, ships wait

Today’s ship schedule, with most ship traffic in flux because of the weather, offers an interesting look at how vessels are affected upriver, in anchorages and offshore when weather prohibits ready transit across the Columbia River Bar.

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As the weather calms down, ships wait

Oct 26, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts

Today’s ship schedule, with most ship traffic in flux because of the weather, offers an interesting look at how vessels are affected upriver, in anchorages and offshore when weather prohibits ready transit across the Columbia River Bar.

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Weird words for a weird storm: what’s a bomb cyclone?

A look at the unusual weather terminology that we have heard the past few days, as meterologists described an unprecedented mega storm hitting the Pacific Northwest.

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Weird words for a weird storm: what’s a bomb cyclone?

Oct 25, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts

A look at the unusual weather terminology that we have heard the past few days, as meterologists described an unprecedented mega storm hitting the Pacific Northwest.

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The Columbus Day Storm of 1962, remembered

It was one of those “storm of the century” events in the Pacific Northwest – a huge storm that caused incredible wreckage over a huge swath of the region. Storms since have not equalled its intensity and level of damage. Today we look back on the Columbus Day Storm that hit this area in October  of 1962.

Special thanks to local historian Frank Lehn, and the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco, Washington, for the information used in this podcast.

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The Columbus Day Storm of 1962, remembered

Oct 22, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts

It was one of those “storm of the century” events in the Pacific Northwest – a huge storm that caused incredible wreckage over a huge swath of the region. Storms since have not equalled its intensity and level of damage. Today we look back on the Columbus Day Storm that hit this area in October  of 1962.

Special thanks to local historian Frank Lehn, and the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco, Washington, for the information used in this podcast.

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The Great Shakeout, the Big One, and what you can do

Today is the annual Great Shakeout event, where we take a look at earthquake preparedness here on the coast, a place where we have the double whammy of earthquake damage and tsunami flooding. We’ll take a look at an article by infamous New Yorker magazine writer Kathryn Schulz (she wrote the scary and spot on article in 2015 about the Big One that shook us up big time). We’ll look at another more positive piece she also wrote, about simple things you can do to keep your home and yourself resilient in the event of a disaster like the Big One. And, what to do once you’ve done all that.

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The Great Shakeout, the Big One, and what you can do

Oct 21, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts

Today is the annual Great Shakeout event, where we take a look at earthquake preparedness here on the coast, a place where we have the double whammy of earthquake damage and tsunami flooding. We’ll take a look at an article by infamous New Yorker magazine writer Kathryn Schulz (she wrote the scary and spot on article in 2015 about the Big One that shook us up big time). We’ll look at another more positive piece she also wrote, about simple things you can do to keep your home and yourself resilient in the event of a disaster like the Big One. And, what to do once you’ve done all that.

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A look at the deep blue sea and the Mariana Trench

Most of us land dwellers think of the ocean in terms of the shore, which is the interface between land and sea. But there is so much more to it than that – a vastness that we can hardly wrap our heads around, and which is still largely unexplored. Today we take a look at the ocean abyss and the Mariana Trench, the deepest spot in the oceans of the world. Seven miles deep…

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A look at the deep blue sea and the Mariana Trench

Oct 20, 2021 | Home Slider, Ship Report Podcasts

Most of us land dwellers think of the ocean in terms of the shore, which is the interface between land and sea. But there is so much more to it than that – a vastness that we can hardly wrap our heads around, and which is still largely unexplored. Today we take a look at the ocean abyss and the Mariana Trench, the deepest spot in the oceans of the world. Seven miles deep…

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