![]() ![]() “The way to look at Walla Walla is that it is the out-of-impact area hub for the general aviation response,” said Terry, who formerly served as a communications operator in the U.S. The aerial relief drill, dubbed Thunder Run, will begin with private pilots launching from Walla Walla, Washington, and Langley, British Columbia, where boxes of food are being stockpiled for distribution into Western Washington and Oregon. That puts the present-day well within the return window. Cascadia megaquakes typically happen every 250 to 800 years. The offshore fault last ruptured in January 1700, spawning a tsunami that reached all the way across the Pacific to Japan. Terry said private pilots are prepared to go into the breach, presumably alongside the National Guard when the Big One happens for real. All you've got is air to supply everything and keep it going." "The other analogy would be the China-Burma hop in World War II," Terry said in an interview. Terry likened his organization’s one-day exercise on June 18 to a “Berlin Airlift effort.” In this worst-case scenario, help will come from above said aptly named Sky Terry, the Northwest regional director of the Emergency Volunteer Air Corps. Private pilots and cyclists will separately take to the air and the streets this month to practice delivering relief supplies after a catastrophic earthquake.Ĭlallam County DART, 2019 (left) / Sara Harrington, Disaster Relief Trials 2016 (right) The highways to the east, north and south are severed. The drill scenarios entail a magnitude 9.0 full rip of the offshore Cascadia earthquake fault from Vancouver Island to northern California – aka “The Big One.” That brings widespread devastation west of the Cascade Range in Oregon and Washington state. The following weekend, June 18, more than 100 private pilots from Oregon, Washington and British Columbia will take to the skies to shuttle food from airfield to airfield in another mock quake relief effort. This Saturday, June 11, around 40 to 50 cargo bike riders will compete in a disaster relief drill in Portland. ![]()
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