tsunami – Lighthouse Memories

Mise Tales Thirty-Nine

April 9, 2014Boston Harbour, Enduring Lights, for sale, history, lighthouse, litehouse, SOLD, Split Rock, tsunami, USA, video, wave simulationAdvertisement, Art, Automation, Bed & Breakfast, Construction, Earthquake, History, Information, Lighthouses, News, Real Estate, Tsunami, USA, Videos, VideosretlkprLeave a Comment

For an update on what a Mise Tale is then please see Mise Tales One. As mentioned earlier on the front page of my website, any photos or cartoons, or short information will also be included again later in the next Misc Tales when it is removed from the front page. That way you can keep track of […]

Preparing for an Earthquake and/or a Tsunami

November 8, 2013earthquake, lighthouse, litehouse, preparation, tsunamiEarthquake, Environment, Equipment, Government, Information, LighthousesretlkprLeave a Comment

Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda in the Philippines) made morning landfall November 07, 2013 at Guiuan, a small city in Samar province in the eastern Philippines. The U.S. Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center said maximum sustained winds were 195 mph, with gusts to 235 mph. As many of you readers now know, I am living in […]

Reprint – The Great Pacific Garbage Reality

June 3, 2012beachcombing, debris, garbage, garbage patch, humans, Japanese, lighthouse, litehouse, tsunami, Usha Lee | McFarlingAsia, Beachcombing, Earthquake, Environment, First Nations, Fisheries and Oceans, Fishing, Foreign, Glass Balls, History, Incidents, Information, Japan, Lighthouses, News, On The Job, Recreation, Reprint, Shipwrecks, TsunamiretlkprLeave a Comment

May 27, 2012 – copied from the LA Times The great Pacific garbage reality. It’s not tsunami debris we should fear; it’s the trash clogging our oceans – Usha Lee McFarling I received permission today to reprint this article written by Usha Lee McFarling supporting the theory expressed in my story Japanese Debris On The BC Coast – […]

Life on Nootka Lighthouse c. 1950s

May 1, 20121950s, Juanita | DuLong, lighthouse, litehouse, Nootka, ships, supplies, tsunamiBritish Columbia, Canada, Childhood Memories, Coast Guard, Communication, Foghorns, Groceries & Mail, Incidents, Keepers, Lighthouses, Photos, Radio, School, Storms, Tsunami, WeatherretlkprLeave a Comment

Here is another story from Ms. Juanita (Swanson) DuLong. She was a young girl on most of these stations, but living there, and hearing stories from her parents, she has created lighthouse memories from the 1950s time. Her older stories are found here, here and here. One more to come she says. It is said that for […]

Life on Pine Island c. 1950s

April 4, 20121950s, Juanita | DuLong, lighthouse, litehouse, Pine Island, ships, supplies, tsunamiBritish Columbia, Canada, Childhood Memories, Coast Guard, Communication, Foghorns, Groceries & Mail, Incidents, Keepers, Lighthouses, Photos, Radio, School, Storms, Tsunami, WeatherretlkprLeave a Comment

Here is another story from Ms. Juanita (Swanson) DuLong. She was a young girl on most of these stations, but living there, and hearing stories from her parents, she has created lighthouse memories from the 1950s time. Her older stories are found here and here. Her husband Roy scanned some nice photos of Pine Island […]

Japanese Debris On The BC Coast – Is it from the Japanese Tsunami?

December 19, 2011beachcombing, currents, drift, earthquake, garbage, glass balls, gyre, Japan, lighthouse, litehouse, ocean, tsunamiBeachcombing, Communication, Earthquake, Foreign, Glass Balls, Lighthouses, Recreation, Ships & Shipping, Tsunamiretlkpr2 Comments

The next time you go to the beach and pick up a piece up something from the sand, think of the story of how it arrived there. Is it something lost from the local town, or something that has drifted for years to arrive here just for you? Early in the 1900’s – commercial […]

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC)

July 29, 2011BC, British Columbia, earthquake, lighthouse, litehouse, Pacific Rim, tsunamiEquipment, Government, Information, Lighthouses, On The Job, TsunamiretlkprLeave a Comment

On the Pacific Coast of British Columbia tsunami warnings are posted to all coastal communities and marine traffic by radio broadcasts. On the British Columbia lighthouses there is one monitoring station located at Langara Point lighthouse. In the event of a significant earthquake readings are taken from this site to observe forecasted tsunami waves. Up […]

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