' responding from dead sleep'

'Tsunami warning centers in Pacific to go on 24/7 staffing'
'When news of a big earthquake hits in the middle of the night, it takes
geophysicist Bruce Turner five minutes to fumble for his beeper, throw on a
coat, scrape ice off his car windshield, drive a mile to work and transmit a
tsunami alert from the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center.

These few minutes, essential to communities in a tsunami's path, will no
longer be wasted on commuting when the center goes to round-the-clock
staffing in April.'

Article in Anchorage DailyNews

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7377587p-7289752c.html

It seems like a small step in protecting the low-lying communities, where

minutes count, in Hawaii, tsunami warnings are frequent and practiced
regularly, they have sirens along the coast and emergency personal
evacuating people immediatlely . British Columbia has nothing, forgetting
about 1964 in Port Alberni, these couple of minutes could save lives.


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