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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2018
Clatsop County led northwest
Oregon in population growth
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Clatsop County was the
fastest growing northwest
Oregon county outside the
Portland metro area last year,
according to statistics from
Portland State University’s
Population Research Center.
The county added nearly
600 residents last year for a
1.5 percent growth rate, tied
for seven-highest in the state
with Multnomah, Marion and
Polk counties. Most of the
growth was in Warrenton and
Seaside, where more land is
available for development.
Most of the growth was
driven by migration. Clatsop
County had a net immigra-
tion between 2010 and 2016
of 978 people, compared to
a natural increase — local
births minus deaths — of 208,
according to the population
center. Oregon added 64,750
people between 2016 and last
year, also driven by migration
from other states.
The population center
queries cities and counties
on population and housing
changes each year. The sta-
tistics were recently used in
a report by the state Employ-
ment Department.
Regional economist Erik
Knoder, author of the report,
said Clatsop County’s higher
growth rate makes sense given
its proximity to the Portland
metro area, where economic
and population growth is usu-
ally the fastest.
“Often
employment
growth tends to increase just
slightly faster than popula-
tion,” Knoder said.
The 2017 population esti-
mate for Astoria was 9,735,
260 residents more than in
2010 but a slight decline from
2016, when Astoria reached
9,770.
“There were some declines
in a few retirement homes,”
Charles Rynerson, a research
associate at the population
center, said of the slight drop.
“That can fluctuate from year
to year.”
Warrenton had 5,285 resi-
dents in last year’s estimates,
up from 5,265 in 2016 and
5,000 in 2010. Seaside grew
from 6,460 in 2016 to 6,620
last year, Cannon Beach from
1,695 to 1,705 and Gearhart
from 1,465 to 1,480. Nearly
14,000 people, more than one-
third of Clatsop County’s pop-
ulation, were living in unin-
corporated areas outside cities
last year.
The Daily Astorian
Astoria’s growth rate was hampered by a lack of buildable
land, according to a recent state report.
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There’s little chance of false missile
alert in Oregon, state official says
PROFESSIONAL
Q: Should I use heat
or cold?
By CLAIRE
WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — An incident
such as Hawaii’s false missile
alert Saturday is unlikely to
happen in Oregon, according
to a state emergency commu-
nications official.
The Hawaii Emergency
Management Agency sent an
erroneous text message alert
through the cellphone net-
work on Saturday morning
stating that a ballistic missile
threat was inbound toward that
state. It took 38 minutes for the
agency to correct it.
Hawaii’s emergency man-
agement system allows a
choice of messages from a set
of prewritten templates. In Sat-
urday’s case, the employee
intended to send a “test” mes-
sage that contained differ-
ent language, but selected and
confirmed the wrong prewrit-
ten template.
That’s different from Ore-
gon, where statewide text alerts
are written anew and have to
get supervisor approval, said
Chris Murray, chair of the
State Emergency Communica-
tions Committee.
“It’s not a situation where
one person’s gonna push the
wrong button,” Murray said.
Emergency communica-
tions with the public exist at
the local, state and federal
level.
Hawaii also has a more
integrated system than Ore-
gon, and fewer checks and
balances. The island state was
criticized by the Federal Com-
munications Commission for
having insufficient safeguards
after Saturday’s incident.
Additionally, in Oregon,
most emergency responses are
handled at the local level, Mur-
ray said.
Even if the “Big One” —
an approximately 8.0 mag-
nitude Cascadia Subduction
Zone earthquake that could
strike western Washington,
Oregon and British Columbia
— hits, the environmental sit-
uation and information about
shelters and other resources in
the aftermath are likely to vary
across the state.
Cities and counties can
issue emergency alerts accord-
ing to emergency communica-
tion plans developed locally.
The National Weather Service
can send out statewide alerts.
Statewide emergency mes-
sages are created by the Ore-
gon Emergency Response
System, which is a 24-hour
dispatch center in Salem,
according to Oregon’s 2017
emergency communications
plan, which is maintained,
along with other state plans, by
the FCC.
Either the Oregon State
Police or the Oregon Office of
Emergency Management typi-
cally write statewide alerts.
For example, AMBER
Alerts, which are sent when a
child is suspected to have been
abducted, are written by state
police. Those alerts are distrib-
uted via text message, radio
and television.
If there’s a national emer-
gency, such as a nuclear attack,
the president or other fed-
eral authorities can use the
national Emergency Alert Sys-
tem to send out what’s called
you hurt,especially in
A: If a joint,
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Oregon emergency management officials say because of the way statewide alerts are
produced, it’s unlikely the agency could send out a false alert such as the erroneous
notification of a missile attack last weekend in Hawaii.
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Chris Murray
chair of the State Emergency Communications Committee
an Emergency Alert Notifica-
tion, which is authenticated by
the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency.
The notification means the
president could address the
American public over radio
and television airwaves within
10 minutes.
Recent statements from
President Donald Trump
regarding North Korea —
including a tweet that his
nuclear button was “much big-
ger and more powerful” than
that of North Korea leader
Kim Jong Un — have renewed
public concern about a possi-
ble nuclear threat to the United
States, decades after the end
of the Cold War, when fallout
shelters were commonplace.
Several buildings in Salem
still have the Fallout Shelter
designation on external walls,
including North Salem High
School.
Since 9/11, the Office of
Emergency Management has
prioritized readiness for an
act of terrorism over nuclear
events, said Paula Negele, a
spokeswoman for the agency.
That said, the agency rec-
ommends Oregonians plan
ahead for a wide range of
contingencies.
“Creating awareness about
the importance of having (an)
emergency kit and plan is an
important part of our mission,”
Negele wrote in an email Tues-
day. “We recommend being
ready for at least two weeks
rather than the traditional
72-hour model in case there
were even a major disaster like
Cascadia or a nuclear attack.”
The Oregon Health Author-
ity and the federal Department
of Homeland Security main-
tain information online about
what to do if there’s an act of
“radiological terrorism.” And
Oregonians can typically sign
up for mobile alerts through
the county emergency man-
agement office.
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