re: #40 Gus 802

If there was over reaction it was mostly the media. Just as the scientists have to predict within probabilities, so do the authorities. They’re right if they mobilized within the realm of probabilities.

Katrina probably still stings, as it should.

Hawaii went through an overmobilization with the Japan tsunami, and there were whiners that said ‘but there was no tsunami.’ Actually there was, it was just very small in many cases with a few areas that got walloped pretty good (homes were destroyed, some a few minutes from my house). The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center was on top of the event immediately and constantly revising information: they were correct, Hawaii had a tsunami. Nobody died, there was some damage.

I get emails from the PTSW within minutes of any earthquake in the Pacific region. Isn’t that freakin cool?

Tax dollars doing real good. NOAA scientists are rock stars in my book and I think their funding is a pittance, well worth it. Keep refining their models, maybe the predictions will get even tighter.