Tsunami Causes Around $1 Million in Damage to Crescent City Harbor
A fishing vessel enters Crescent City Harbor Wednesday morning as seen on the Sunset Cam.
Crescent City Harbor took a hit from tsunami surge waves early Wednesday morning, July 31, following the 8.8-magnitude earthquake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
At approximately 2:40 a.m., a dock engineered as a “sacrificial dock” detached from its pilings, sank, and broke loose—exactly as designed to reduce broader harbor damage.
Harbormaster Mike Rademaker told SFGATE that initial estimates put the damage at $100,000. Now, Rademaker said, “It’s probably getting closer to $1 million.”
RHBB contributor Matt LaFever has the full story for SFGATE: Crescent City harbor quietly damaged by tsunami last week
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“$100,000… no, wait! $1 million dollars!”
Whatever you say, Dr. Dweebil.
Better start selling a lot of fish. Taxpayers aren’t gonna be on the hook for this bullshit anymore.
Fishermen are taxpayers, too (and contribute to the local economy as well as federal and state taxes). If they are based out of Crescent city, they pay moorage fees. Actually even visiting boats are charged a fee (can’t say for sure the CC port does this, but all others I am familiar with do) as well. Charter fishing and whale watching out of Crescent City brings in much needed income to the county/city in lodging, etc. The personal federal taxes port users pay (aside from the business’ taxes), which speaking from personal experience can be quite hefty, especially in a good year, are, you know, are part of that taxpayers on the hook.
Great! Charge the tourists! Sell more fish! See more whales! Boat owners can get together and build a new dock. $100K… no! Wait! 1 million dollars!!! Riiiiggghhttt…
I don’t think I should pay for any repairs on your road. Charge a toll, hold a bake sale…
And you clearly have no idea how little a million dollars go on marine structures. I’m impressed it’s that cheap.
One million???!!! If you believe that HORSESHIT, I have bridge to sell!
One Million might build a Tsunami ‘gate’ across the entry to the boat basin.
No wait… this is Californika.
$3 million for a study. (Might involve meetings in Cancun Mexico.)
$5 million for engineering.
$2 million for a quarter mile pathway leading around the boat basin.
$500K for new artwork.
$200 K for new benches.
$150 K for pathway drainage.
$100 K (yearly) donation to the Sand-Dab Benevolent Fund.
$1.5 Million to Crescent City for green paint and curb fart-lets.
$10 Million for construction.
$15 Million for the subsequent take-down lawsuits
$5 million to take it down.
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Go figure.
I figure I’d rather spend millions on a White House Ballroom for el Presidente’ than on a harbor for the common folks, since many voted against themselves and for a dictatorship anyway. I mean, a majority voted for Trump, now live with it. Not my will, but thine be done.
How about telling us where you got your numbers?
For some reason, this website has not been loading images for the past few days.
Dunno… it loaded several images that I posted today.
Photo is of a Tsunami Gate Barrier.
Far bigger than what the Crescent City harbor would need.
Could it be on your end? Everything appears fine when I check in incognito mode.
Images have to be less than 1 mb….
Well, 1 mb is the upper limit, I believe…
I think that’s what it ‘used to be’.
Most new web servers: When you submit an image, the image procedures are cropping them down to an er… ‘reasonable size’.
Same thing with most modern email programs. It crops the image down.
No more ‘image too big/rejected’ messages.
Still is. The error message “Maximum upload file size is 1mb 4MB” shows briefly after click/tap “Post Comment” if image filesize is too large (over 1MB).
In that case, I wonder if it’s a difference in the browser/operating system.
Auto-resizing helps with not having to make size-compliant photos on your end. Part of the issue from a web server end is for, one, people’s phone camera settings. They usually have them set at MAX by default, so what you get is an HD photo, which is well over 10Mb, if not 50Mb, and measures 24×36 inches. It’s movie poster size. You can’t directly upload that in many places unless it’s resized, cropped, or saved in a format that hugely reduces file size, such as with JPEG and PDF. And now you get uploads that take all day on reduced bandwidths, or not at all. These stored photos also take up a huge amount of memory on others’ servers or cloud services. That costs money. 1-4mb is all anybody needs for decent quality photos on some comment page. If that. For example, ones I post here are ~2-300kb
There are also online resizers such as https://imageresizer.com/ (I think Kym posted that link here someplace)
I’ve used them. They’re handy if you don’t own some image editor app or software, or don’t want to. Also, phones where you might not have a “lite” version of an editor app.
What is a “sacrificial dock”? And why would any engineer build one when they could build a dolo breakwater? Water too deep?
https://thisbugslife.com/2021/11/21/dolosse-a-south-african-invention-used-over-the-world/