Surfers

On the radio this morning, I caught a snippet of "Science Friday" by Ira Flatow, on NPR. He was talking with an earthquake expert, who relayed a story by a friend of his about the recent cautionary tsunami alert that accompanied the large earthquake off the northern California coast, near Eureka. Apparently, at Newport Beach, Oregon, when people heard about the tsunami alert, they gathered at the beach to watch for it.

This is what you might call a failure in public safety education!