Tsunami Structure, May 13

An Emergency Management Agency on the Washington coast line predicts a new structure intended to protect elementary students from a tsunami will the first structure of its type in the country.  The Ocosta School District, located on Grays Harbor near Westport, WA, is designing a school that will be built with an upper-level space where children could flee in the event of a tsunami.  It will be the nation’s first vertical-evacuation structure.