You can’t make this up.
“National Weather Service quells concerns of tsunami in, erm, North Dakota”
Joe Nelson, Bring Me The News (July 30, 2025)“After the 8.8 megathrust earthquake struck near Russia Tuesday night, tsunami warnings, watches and advisories were issued for coastlines on the Pacific Ocean. Meanwhile, there was at least one person concerned that the tsunami threat could impact Fargo, North Dakota.
“‘There is no threat for tsunami impacts in North Dakota,’ said the Grand Forks office of the National Weather Service. The agency was responding to a user on X who pointed out that people had been searching Google for tsunami concerns in North Dakota….”
What the Grand Forks National Weather Service office said was accurate, in the context of that day’s tsunami concerns on Pacific shores. North Dakota is as far inland as you can get on the North American continent.
But, as the article pointed out, North Dakota does have lakes, and lakes can have ‘lake tsunamis’ — but, seriously, in North Dakota Lakes: that’s not much of a problem.
I’m a little curious about why someone Googled tsunamis and North Dakota.
I might have, just to see what Google came up with. But not many folks have a brain that’s wired like mine: for which we should all thank a merciful God.
Someone Googling North Dakota tsunamis out of fear that an aquatic avalanche of apocalyptic proportions might surge over the Rocky Mountains? That raises more issues than I’m going to think about this week. Or want to think about, for that matter.
Oh, boy. My eyes are still feeling smoky — I talked about that yesterday — and I’m still looking forward to waking up this week.
Sharing this weird — and, I hope, entertaining — bit of news seemed like a good idea. I hope you enjoyed it.
