It’s Only a Matter of Time Before a Tsunami Hits the Northwest. Why Is It Missing from FEMA’s Risk Analysis?

It’s Only a Matter of Time Before a Tsunami Hits the Northwest. Why Is It Missing from FEMA’s Risk Analysis?

Scattered like driftwood along the coast of Washington state is a string of Native reservations, tourist havens and faded timber towns whose names bespeak their geography: Long Beach, Westport, Ocean Shores, the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe. Some lie on nearly naked sandspits with a single point of connection to the mainland. Together with their coastal counterparts in Oregon and Northern California, they may be the most endangered communities in…