Levees to lahar, disaster preparation

Two local governments are planning to make their communities safer in case of disaster. King County Executive Ron Sims is right to ask the County Council to adopted a countywide flood-control district.

And in the small Pierce County town of Orting, money is being secured for a bridge that can be used to get to high ground in case of a lahar — a catastrophic slide of debris produced by an eruption of Mount Rainier.

from the Seattle Times