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Surfsand ‘hammered’ by wave
No one hurt as
boomer hits
ground floor
By R.J. Marx
Cannon Beach Gazette
GEORGE VETTER/FOR EO MEDIA GROUP
Seaside High School senior Silvia Avila plays a victim
during a countywide training exercise for the Commu-
nity Emergency Response team program.
Seaside students set sights
on establishing CERT club
By Katherine Lacaze
EO Media Group
Seniors Caitlynn Howe
and Silvia Avila are spear-
heading an effort to es-
tablish a teen Communi-
ty Emergency Response
Team club at Seaside High
School and make the out-
reach program more prev-
alent in the Seaside com-
munity.
With the help of Bijan
Fayyaz, Clatsop County’s
emergency services coor-
dinator, Howe and Avila
believe a CERT club could
help incorporate more au-
thentic training into tsuna-
mi drills, equip the school
with the adequate quality
and quantity of emergency
equipment and work with
other teen CERT groups in
the area.
“We feel that making a
club would create a foot-
print to make CERT a per-
manent part of the school
and eventually have it be-
come as big of an extracur-
ricular as any other club,”
Fayyaz said.
He is working with
school administrators —
at Seaside High School, as
well as Astoria and War-
renton high schools — to
figure out how to make
emergency preparedness
more present on each cam-
pus. He envisions each
school will have their own
club or team, and they all
will function collabora-
tively under a countywide
teen CERT umbrella. Since
starting discussions, Howe
and Avila have shown en-
thusiasm and the desire to
help make that happen.
A string of heavy storms
and winds pounded the
North Coast this week,
leading to high waves
in Cannon Beach. One
of those breached a con-
crete barrier and slammed
through the ground floor
of the Surfsand Resort Fri-
day, Dec. 11, at about 12:30
p.m., Ryan Snyder, Presi-
dent of Martin Hospitality,
said Sunday. Eleven rooms
were impacted. No one was
hurt.
The wave was the “per-
fect culmination” of ele-
ments, Snyder said, with
high tide, still wind and
dunes outside the Surfsand
at 148 W. Gower.
“It’s happened before in
the past,” he said. “We’ve
had water hit the sea wall.
There was no wind at the
time of the breach, and so
there was no wave being
knocked down by wind.
It was the perfect culmi-
nation. We just got ham-
mered.”
Guests and staff were
never in danger, Snyder said.
Staff was able to reas-
sign guests to other accom-
R.J. MARX/CANNON BEACH GAZETTE
Damage from water and debris at a beachfront room at the Surfsand in Cannon Beach.
modations. “They were
very understanding,” Sny-
der said.
“We pulled everything
out of the room, we’re
drying it out and assessing
what the damage is,” he
said. “We’re still evaluat-
ing whether any personal
belongings were destroyed.
Water main break interrupts service
Dan Grassick said the break
occurred at 5:30 a.m. and
“was on a large diameter
transmission main just across
the bridge on the north side of
town.”
“Staff were notified via
alarms at a pump station and
the reservoir level sensor,”
he added. “Didn’t take long
to find it given the volume of
water.”
Public Work crews had
the break isolated in about 20
minutes and completed re-
pairs around noon, restoring
By Dani Palmer
Cannon Beach Gazette
A water main break on the
north side of Cannon Beach
knocked out water service to
about 80 residents early Dec.
7.
Resident Bob Lundy said
he woke up sometime before
6 a.m. and tried running the
water. Realizing nothing was
coming out of the facet, he
notified police due to the early
hour.
Public Works Director
water service.
The old mainline was built
prior to the construction of
Breaker’s Point “and is known
to be extremely brittle materi-
al (PVC),” Grassick said.
“It has had several spon-
taneous breaks of no known
origin during its operational
history,” he added, “and this
event was similar to previous
breaks.”
He noted that a cracked
segment about 10 feet long
was replaced with higher
quality PVC pipe.
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have systems that are in
place to help remediate this
when it happens, but obvi-
ously we need to re-eval-
uate all of those, so that’s
kind of what we’re doing.
We’re getting those rooms
cleaned out right now and
trying to assess what we’re
going to do going forward.”
We’re not sure if they were
damaged or not.”
Throughout the week-
end, trucks worked to pump
debris from the first floor,
working through scattered
downpours Saturday and
Sunday.
“It’s nature taking its
course,” Snyder said. “We
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