Saturday market!

We went back into Florence on Saturday to see if the weekend market was going to be open -- it was an overcast day and rain was possible, but it was one of the better days since we've been here...

... sure enough, the vendors were set up!

It wasn't a farmers market though - jewelry and various handmade items.

Boats along the harborfront

Carl has been reading information indicating that this area is overdue for a huge Tsunami,so we checked out the evacuation map. This indicates that you need to be above 29', but what he has been reading indicates more than double that is possible... yikes!

We have our family radio service (FRS) walkie-talkie tuned in that has weather service alerts, and we have our phones set to give us weather alerts -- since tsunami come from earthquakes, possibly at a distance away, theoretically we could get notification and be able to head to higher ground. The brown areas indicate danger areas for a far earthquake, the additional yellow areas indicate danger areas for a "local" earthquake along the Oregon coast.

When we were looking at the sign there at the harborfront, a local artist came up and talked with us for a little bit - when I mentioned that Carl had read about the possibility of a large tsunami, she looked startled and said, "Oh, I hope that's many years away!"