Alaskas Tsunami Warning Fizzled, and So Do the

Alaska’s a great place to reside. On sunny mornings like this, when I’m embroiled in reporting on all the unpleasantness in the world, it is great to go outdoors, look up at my beloved Alaska sky, and take a few deep breaths of the clean Susitna Valley air, pure as wine. Do that, and you possibly can really feel the stress just melting away.

Of course, like every different place on the planet, Alaska has its points, too, and I’m not just speaking about the winters, which aren’t to be taken calmly. Alaska also sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” and like every different place on that ring, we’ve got volcanoes and earthquakes. On Wednesday, a 7.3-magnitude quake hit off of southwest Alaska’s Sand Point, triggering tsunami warnings.

The earthquake, which struck at 12:37 pm about 54 miles south of Sand Point, prompted a tsunami warning stretching from Kennedy Entrance to Unimak Pass, including Sand Point, Cold Bay, Kodiak, and the Homer Spit. By 1:50 pm, the National Tsunami Warning Center had downgraded the warning to an advisory after detecting small tsunami waves, none of which had been anticipated to trigger vital flooding.

Although no critical harm was reported and the scenario shortly stabilized, the alert lit up social media in a completely different manner.

Alaska’s leftists – yes, we’ve got them – refused to let a good disaster go to waste. Of course, as crises go, this one ended up being not a catastrophe but a fizzle; the tsunami waves had been scarcely detectable, even in locations like the Homer Spit, a lot of which is only a few toes above the high tide line. Even so, this began the hue and cry about how NPR was needed to help Alaskans study of such issues.

The drawback is, most of the Alaskans in Homer discovered of the warning through their mobile telephones.

Volunteer KMXT Kodiak radio host Mike Sirofchuck was among those who seized the second, posting on Facebook during the warning:

“Right now is an excellent time to call Dan Sullivan and reminde [sic] him why public radio is an essential service in our community,” he wrote. “7.3 earthquake in Sand Point; Tsunami Warning issued. KMxT broadcasting up to the date essential information.”

Sirofchuck, who is commonly seen trolling Republican lawmakers, included the Capitol switchboard quantity and urged followers to contact Alaska’s Sen. Dan Sullivan to assist continued federal funding for public broadcasting. The rescissions vote-a-rama was already underway in the Capitol at the time of the tsunami.

Yet, the irony was laborious to miss: Most Alaskans discovered of the tsunami alert not through the radio waves, but through computerized alerts despatched instantly to their cellphones. Emergency textual content messages, half of the wi-fi emergency alert system, reached residents in affected areas within minutes of the earthquake.

Or, they may have listened to AM radio. But the left would not contemplate actuality when it is their ox being gored. 

My colleagues Nick Arama and Bonchie have, in current days, executed great work in documenting how Congressional Dems as nicely as NPR’s senior management view small-town and rural Americans as a bunch of incompetent hicks who cannot work out the wonders of trendy mobile telephones – or AM radio.

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As of this writing, the recission invoice is back in the House of Representatives’ court. If I had to guess, I’d guess it would move, and NPR/PBS can have to step up their annoying beg-a-thons. That’s wonderful. If they cannot survive without taxpayer subsidies, they should not be in operation. 

As for that tsunami, it ended up being one thing of a tsunamnot. But had it been critical, the people in Homer and elsewhere in the affected space (lots of of miles from us) would have discovered in time, with or without NPR. Welcome to the vast, vast world of 2025, NPR, where even rural hicks and small-town rubes have doped out the wonders of trendy mobile applied sciences.

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie.

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