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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
My mother lived in the area of the 1947 tsunami as a teenager and later when we were children we were told by her to be careful of the signs (we lived on the banks of an exposed river estuary facing out to the East). As mentioned before we now have a cellular based alert system, some places have sirens and some blue lines painted across roads at the estimated maximum wave run-up heights so people know to evacuate inland from those; all just in the last couple of years.
Back when I was at school we were told what to do in an earthquake, nothing at all about what to do if there was a tsunami even though I was schooled in a seaside town.
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It's interesting how different geographical areas prepare for different types of natural disasters. I did not know that they painted lines on the roads for tsunami evacuations. I remember traveling to Savannah, Georgia for the first time and seeing "barrier arms" (like train-track crossings) at ramps on and off highways so that they could evacuate the area safely having cars go in the wrong direction during a hurricane. I grew up in an area where we had drills for earthquakes and tornados and of course sirens for tornados. Where I live now it's extreme heat and monsoons (dust storms) that are the big weather problem.