The Alberni Tsunami
Buildings, docks and other structures were damaged beyond repair in the 1964 Tsunami. Cars were scattered like toys.
Shortly after midnight, 17-year-old Linda King was getting ready for bed when she heard the sound of water outside her bedroom window at 189 River Road in Alberni, B.C. The Somass River had risen sharply and had seeped under the front door before retreating down its banks. Linda woke her mother, Ethel, and 14-year-old brother Colin, and while mopping up from four centimetres of water that had washed over the floor of their Vancouver Island home they heard o...