Talk:Crescent City, California

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no one talks about how the mississippi river curves around that one state which makes it called the crescent city.

It's worth noting that I haven't seen record of another tsunami since the one indicated in the article. Certainly nothing that caused any noteworthy damage. Calling the city 'prone to tsunamis' is a stretch at best.

It's not a stretch. It has been documented by Humboldt State University that Crescent City has been particularly vulnerable to tsunamis for centuries; the most major one occuring in 1700 with a runup for more than a mile. However, a manmade breaker installed after the 1964 disaster may have alleviated the problem in recent years.-- ZincOrbie 21:11, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2005 evacuation

As a resident who lives about 100 feet above the tsunami flood zone at a major intersection in Crescent City, I find the report of a 20-minute evacuation of the city quite dubious. There was near gridlock at my intersection (within city limits) for at least one hour. I videotaped the confusion and curb-jumping, as cars sat idle for long periods of time in street lanes.

If the "official" report is a successful 20-minute evacuation, I will not dispute it. But it is not what I witnessed.

[edit] Pictures?

I'll be heading out this week to take some pictures that I think will be representative of my hometown of Crescent City. I'd like to invite others to do this too. Our town deserves a better Wikipedia page! Rembrandt 07:33, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1-2006 cleanup

I removed the general description paragraph that originally followed the tsunami history. It read like a sales brochure, and the section was mostly redundant when compared with the "History" and "Geography" sections. The non-redundant areas were incorporated into those sections. I also added some more tsunami statistics and attribution.-- ZincOrbie 16:18, 27 February 2006 (UTC)