Crescent City , California

We are now just south of Crescent City, California at Klamath River RV Resort in the giant Redwood National Forest park. Some of these trees are so large you could build a whole house out of the lumber harvested from just one tree.



This was also the home to the legendary Paul Bunyon and his blue ox Babe. You have to look hard but you can just see Granddad standing between the legs of Paul and Babe

Crescent City , California




Tsunamis

Crescent City is susceptible to tsunamis. According to Humboldt State University, the city experienced tsunami conditions 17 times between the years 1943 and 1994. Although most of these effects were barely perceptible, one tsunami in particular extensively damaged the city in 1964.

On March 27, 1964, the Good Friday Earthquake off Anchorage, Alaska, set in motion local landslide tsunamis, as well as a trans-Pacific one that sped in three hours down the U.S. West Coast to the state of Washington. Destroying docks, boats, cars, coastal dwellings and surging up rivers with the same result, the tsunami continued down the coast.

Within another 1/1-2 hours four waves struck over a two-hour period at Crescent City. Afterwards, 289 buildings and businesses had been destroyed; 1000 cars and 25 large fishing vessels crushed; 12 people were confirmed dead, over 100 were injured, and numbers were missing; 60 blocks had been inundated with 30 city blocks destroyed in total. Although most of the missing were later accounted for, not all were tracked down. Insurance adjusters estimated that the city received more damage from the tsunami on a block-by-block basis than did Anchorage, Alaska, from the initial earthquake.