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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS June 27, 2016 | 75¢
Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
The long stretch to Ketchikan CHARLIE BERMANT/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
The Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management held a postmortem about the recent Cascadia Rising disaster preparation exercise, with attendees breaking into small groups to attack specific problems. One such group included, from left, neighborhood coordinator Martha Trolin, Jefferson County Administrator Philip Morley, Emergency Management director Bob Hamlin and volunteer Larry Berg.
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Competitors, including a stand-up paddleboarder, Karl Kruger from Orcas Island, paddle and row their way through the Inner Harbour of Victoria on Sunday to start the second leg of the Race to Alaska. Below, the Empress Hotel provides the backdrop as racers make their way toward the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The Race to Alaska starts main event
Exercise allowed tests in ‘accelerated format’
Competitors are heading north from Victoria
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VICTORIA, B.C. –– The second leg of a grueling water race to Ketchikan, Alaska, is now underway. The 38 teams still competing in the second-annual Race to Alaska started the race Le-Mans style at noon in Victoria, B.C., on Sunday, with racers having to run down the dock to their boats before leaving the harbor. “The start of the race was awesome,” said Jared Scott, communications manager for Northwest
Lessons of Cascadia drill forming
Maritime Center in Port Townsend, which organized the event. This is the second year of the race, which was open to nonmo-
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PORT TOWNSEND — The Cascadia Rising disaster preparation exercise allowed participants to test their response systems while operating in an unrealistic context, said the director of Jefferson County Emergency Management. “We did this in an accelerated format. This was not reality,” Bob Hamlin told 45 people at a debriefing session Friday. “On the third day of the exercise, we weren’t doing what we would be doing the third day of the disaster.” The session included representatives of police, fire, emergency, public health, and city and county agencies, as well as members of neighborhood groups. Hamlin said there was a lot of
“management by walking around” and that much of the activity involved “fairy dust and making things up.” But there were several lessons learned, including the need to use face-to-face contact to disseminate needed information. The regional exercise, held from June 7-10 throughout Washington state, Oregon and British Columbia, postulated a 9.0-magnitude earthquake from the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Pacific coast, with a resultant tsunami and the effect of both on local infrastructure. The 800-mile fault, which stretches from southern British Columbia to Northern California, spawns massive earthquakes an average of once every 200 to 500 years, with the last in about 1700. TURN
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New boat ramp yields smooth operations Access is eased at PT Boat Haven in or out of the water,” he said. The ramp has been doubled in width, from an 18-foot single lane PORT TOWNSEND — After to a double lane separated by a about a month of operation, an divider to allow simultaneous use expanded ramp in the Port by two boats. Townsend Boat Haven has led to smoother operations and faster Demand grew access times, a port official said. Toews said the demand for the “You can look out this window and see the difference,” said Eric ramp increased significantly as Toews, Port of Port Townsend boaters gravitated toward using planner, as he pointed toward a trailer boats rather than renting a moorage spot. crowded parking lot. “Whenever you can expand an “One lane access was inadequate in meeting the demand, existing facility rather than buildand on some days it was highly ing a new one it’s a good thing.” The $454,000 project was subcongested and took an hour to get
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sidized by a $329,000 grant from the state Recreation and Conservation Office, with the remaining $122,000 originating from the port’s general fund. Basic construction was complete by Feb. 15 to accommodate a state-imposed “fish window.” It has been in operation since May. A finishing touch done this month roughed up the ramp to prevent slips and increase safety. Access is $10 a day and $70 for a yearly pass. The ramp is unsupervised on evenings and weekends. Payment is on the honor system using an CHARLIE BERMANT/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS on-site drop box which Toews Justin Dakota, a member of the Port Gamble S’Klallam characterizes as “an iron ranger.”
tribe, carries crab pots up the expanded Port Townsend
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RAMP/A6 Boat Haven boat ramp after a crab harvest Friday.
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