Tsunami warning still in effect for northern and central California (and Oregon, and parts of Alaska) due to the 8.9 magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Japanese island of Honshu.
So far there's no mandatory evacuation for my area. Highway 17 in the South Bay is clogged, though, as people evacuate low-lying areas of Santa Cruz; Highway 92 out of Half Moon Bay is jammed for the same reason. Ocean Beach, China Beach and the Great Highway in San Francisco are closed. Were the Cliff House open, it would be a spectacular place from which to watch whatever happens. (It's closed because it's too early, not because it has been evacuated: the building is on a cliff fifty feet or more off the beach.)
This isn't directly related, but I can't resist a bemused comment about President Obama's official statement of condolence to Japan on the horrific earthquake that spawned the tsunami. Obama called the ties between the U.S. and Japan "unshakeable." Uh, Mr. President, don't you have advisors who vet your official statements? Didn't anyone in the White House recognize how unfortunate it was to use that word in connection with an earthquoke? You don't get points for wordplay in a statement of condolence.
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