Changelog

A colored-pencil drawing of the hillside houses above the river, the old canneries on their pilings, and the long Astoria-Megler Bridge crossing to the far shore.

On this coast a Cascadia earthquake is its own warning — the first waves can arrive before any alert could. A new tool lets you type an address and see whether Oregon's worst-case model floods that spot, how deep, and roughly how many minutes it gives, using the state's official DOGAMI inundation maps. It never says an address is 'safe' and never saves what you type: the standing advice is to walk to high ground the moment a quake is long or strong, wherever you are. It sits alongside the existing 'Tsunami: What to Do' guide.

Astoria now has a plain guide to what to do in a tsunami. On this coast a strong or long earthquake is itself the warning — the first wave can be only minutes behind it — so the page explains how to recognise the natural signs, what to do during and after the shaking, and to walk inland and uphill out of the low ground by the river without waiting for a siren or an alert. It points to the official DOGAMI "Beat the Wave" evacuation map and to Clatsop County's alerts and the national tsunami warning service. It is a safety reference to read now, not a live alert.

FisherPoets, the Crab & Wine Festival, Goonies Day, Scandinavian Midsummer, the Buoy 10 opener, the Regatta and the Great Columbia Crossing — in the order they come around, each computed forward so the next one is always right. Buoy 10 and the Regatta are what's next this summer.

Columbia bar tides from NOAA, a "how busy is downtown today?" cruise-ship calendar, a community-resources directory, and local picks.