Wednesday, October 7, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Great Oregon Shakeout: City of Sisters bulletin
Preparing for the ‘full rip’
By Cory Misley
City Manager
January 26,
1700, approxi-
mately 9 p.m. 4
the earth ruptures,
coming unzipped
along 600 miles
of coastline
from what is
now British
Columbia
into what is
now northern
California.
T h e
whole world
shakes, and
it seems
like it will
never end.
Massive
sections
of forested
coastline nearly instantly
drop three to six feet, leaving
giant trees embedded in salt
water to die and leave ghost
forests that will stand senti-
nel in the sand three centu-
ries later.
A tsunami will roll across
the ocean, taking nine hours
to reach Japan. Scribes will
leave record of this <orphan
tsunami= that arrived from
thousands of miles across
the ocean without anyone in
Japan feeling the quake that
heralded it.
The quake must have
been a magnitude 9 4 one of
the most powerful in history.
It will happen again. It
could happen at any time.
Scientists estimate that there
is a one-in-three chance of
a megaquake hitting in the
next 50 years.
The potentially cata-
strophic effects of a <full rip=
Cascadia Subduction Zone
earthquake are highlighted in
the Great Oregon Shakeout,
part of the International
ShakeOut Day (always the
third Thursday of October).
The effects, as can be
imagined, would be cata-
strophic on the coast, with
massive damage from the
shaking and from a likely
tsunami, which would proba-
bly inundate many low-lying
areas.
Effects would be felt
far inland, with significant
damage in the Willamette
Valley. Depending on the
time of year, a megaquake
could trigger multiple major
landslides that could cut off
highways through the Coast
Range and the Cascades.
And many of the state9s
highway bridges would
be rendered unusable 4
either heavily damaged or
collapsed.
For Central Oregon, it is
this disruption of transporta-
tion and the ripple effects of
damage elsewhere that will
be the most significant effect
of a full-scale Cascadia
Subduction Zone earthquake.
Direct damage from shak-
ing is likely to be minor. But
the people of Sisters Country
are not insulated from the
effects.
<All of the things we take
for granted will be impacted
for a significant period of
time,= said Jack McGowan,
a long-time preparedness
advocate who serves on the
Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire
District Board of Directors.
That includes groceries
and fuel supplies, and power
may be cut off.
If the quake happens in
the middle of winter, as the
1700 quake did, that could
leave many local residents
without their main source of
heat. And electrical power is
vital to keeping water sup-
plies flowing, too.
The Sisters-Camp
See SHAKEOUT on page 11
RESERVE A
DATE NOW!
The City of Sisters is
responsible for a variety of
infrastructure systems and
services that support our
community. To ensure we
reflect and align with who
we serve, boards and com-
mittees that provide a direct
link with community mem-
bers are critical to maintain-
ing dialogue. These groups
inform and advise the City
Council and City staff on
several topics.
Whether it is wastewa-
ter and water infrastruc-
ture, streets, parks, land
use and community devel-
opment, tourism and eco-
nomic development, or law
enforcement, we rely on
community input to shape
where we are going and
how we get there. Every
year, across all aspects of
the City, we are at some
phase in a cycle of analysis,
planning, project develop-
ment, and implementa-
tion. We rinse and repeat
this year after year to be
both proactive in address-
ing growth and reactive
to shifting community
needs.
Volunteers 4 who above
all else have the best inter-
est of the community 4 are
essential to informing and
guiding our year-after-year
journey together. The rela-
tionship between City staff
and those who serve on City
boards and committees is
crucial for seeing a positive,
productive cycle continue
its momentum. We are all
in public service together,
and it is very rewarding
work.
The City is accepting
applications for the follow-
ing openings:
" Planning Commission
(PC): Three openings,
all in-City positions, and
appointed to four-year
terms.
" Budget Committee:
Four openings, all in-City
positions, and appointed to
3-year terms.
" Housing Policy
Advisory Board (HPAB):
Two openings, both in-City
positions and appointed to
three-year terms.
" Urban Forestry Board
(UFB): One opening, in-
City position, and appointed
to a 3-year term.
" City Parks Advisory
Board (CPAB): Two open-
ings, both in-City positions,
one position is for a three-
year term, and one position
is for a one-year term.
" Public Works Advisory
Board (PWAB): This is a
new board with five posi-
tions. Three must be in-City,
and two may be outside the
City limits. Three positions
will be appointed to a three-
year term, and two positions
will be appointed to a two-
year term.
Generally, meetings
occur monthly (or at a mini-
mum quarterly) and last for
an hour or two. Since the
COVID-19 pandemic began
4 and for the foreseeable
future 4 these meetings
are occurring through vid-
eoconference. For the most
part, staff prepare agendas,
research, compile back-
ground materials to support
each agenda item, and pres-
ent on the topics to inform
the discussion by the board
members and staff.
The deadline to apply
for these open positions
is November 6 at 5 p.m.
Interviews for open posi-
tions will occur in late
November, and appoint-
ments will happen at the
first City Council meeting
in December. Each appoin-
tee9s new term will begin in
January of 2021.
P l e a s e v i s i t w w w.
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