NEAH BAY — Melissa Peterson was rattled. She had just sat in a meeting and listened to experts paint a dire picture.
A wall of water will one day hit Neah Bay, wiping out Peterson’s home and hundreds of others that lay in its path. There will be scant minutes to escape to higher ground.
A tsunami-producing megaquake has hit the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Northwest coast before — last submerging Neah Bay and turning Cape Flattery into an island in 1700, researchers have said — and it’s only