Sugarloaf, PA January 3, 2005

U.S. Officials Must Prepare for Imminent East Coast Tsunami

By Ned Dougherty, author Fast Lane to Heaven

In the September 11, 2004 edition of On Angels Wings, a
newsletter I publish periodically, I warned that a devastating and
deadly tsunami directed at the eastern seaboard of the United
States was a not if, but when scenario. I became so concerned
with the timing of this possible future event that I traveled to
the Canary Islands in November 2004 to investigate for myself
what has become known as the La Palma Threat. While I was
living on the island of La Palma, I researched the scientific
facts concerning the potential threat and hiked to the top of the
volcanic mountains to personally observe and experience for
myself what may become the next Ground Zero.

I determined that the threat was not only real but, perhaps,
imminent. Of course, my research trip took place just prior to
the devastating Asia Tsunami of December 26, 2004, the full
impact of which the scientists are still trying to comprehend.

The cause of the apocalyptic scenario in the Canary Islands is
the Cumbre Vieja ridge line of volcanoes on the western-most
island, La Palma. I reported in the September 11th newsletter
that Professor Bill McGuire, director of the Benfield Grieg
Research Centre at University College in London, England,
found that a diagonal fracture has already separated the western
slope of the ridge line and only friction keeps one third of the
island from falling into the ocean creating a rushing wall of
water with a clear run across the Atlantic to the U.S. eastern
seaboard. According to Professor McGuire, this scenario may
be triggered either by an earthquake or a volcanic eruption.
Finally through Professor McGuire and other scientists, I have
been given the scientific support for this future event scenario
that I have been publicly speaking and writing about since 1994.

Even in the absence of an earthquake or eruption, the La
Palma western slope is already slipping slowly but surely into
the ocean. I suggest that there is also a more ominous threat
possibility. A strategically placed high explosive or nuclear
device along the Cumbre Vieja ridge by terrorists could also
achieve similar results; a devastating tidal wave sweeping across
the Atlantic and spreading a wall of rushing water between 60
and 150 feet or higher when it hits the east coast of the United
States from Florida to Maine; the epicenter of which would be
aimed directly at Washington, DC.

Until the 2004 record-breaking hurricane season, which I
contend is only a precursor of climatic events to come, U.S.
east coast residents have lived somewhat comfortably assured
that they were not in the crosshairs of major geophysical events.
After all, east coast residents did not have to worry about, for
example, a San Andreas Fault scenario, which means not if but
when the fault slips drastically, the west coast of the U.S. will be
faced with massive destruction and potential tidal waves. East
coast residents typically believed that they had little to fear from
earthquake activity or tidal waves. That is until now.

My purpose in reporting the potential of the La Palma threat
in the September 11th newsletter was to send out a warning
signal to east coast residents that the threat of a tsunami was
very real, possibly imminent, and needed to be addressed.

U.S. government agencies, particularly the Federal Emergency
Management Agency FEMA have been well aware of the La
Palma threat and other scenarios that could result in an Atlantic
tsunami but appropriate warnings to the public were not made in
the past. In the last several days, the major media outlets have
finally been addressing this issue, but now only as a result of
the deadly Asia Tsunami, which would be dwarfed by a future
Atlantic tsunami.

Although the U.S. government is not in the business of
informing the public of apocalyptic-type worst-case scenarios,
several precautions have already been taken. Coastal Evacuation
Route signs have sprung up in recent years from Florida
to Maine, a coordinated effort overseen by several Federal
agencies, particularly FEMA in cooperation with state and
local officials. The appearance of these blue and white signs
on Eastern Long Island several years ago, literally overnight,
prompted at least one local newspaper to question from where
the signs came. And why all the secrecy?

Certainly, hurricanes and other storms make the coastal areas
vulnerable and, therefore, the sign program can be justified. But
the impetus for the coastal warnings programs from Florida
to Maine was fueled primarily by the potential threat from
tsunamis or tidal waves. Yet, the public had not been informed
of the potential threat until now.

Unfortunately, irregardless of the Coastal Evacuation Route
program, most east coast residents will not have sufficient
warning to evacuate to higher ground and out of reach of the
tsunami waves which may surge as much as twenty miles or
more inland according to several scientific projections.

Regarding a tsunami generated in the Canary Islands, east
coast residents would have approximately 8-9 hours notice
to evacuate inland and to higher ground. Florida residents
recently experienced the massive traffic gridlock that results
with a warning period of several days, not just a matter of
hours. Imagine the entire populace of the east coast from
Maine to Florida attempting to evacuate on short notice to the
Appalachian Mountains. The loss of life will be certain and
unimaginable.

Understandably, little attention in the past has been given to
the personal future visions that I have been publicly discussing
since 1994, because my future predictions originally emanated
not from a scientific discipline but from several near-death
experiences that I had in 1984. During the first experience on
Long Island, New York, I was clinically dead in an ambulance
when I had visions of global geopolitical and geophysical events
that I understood would occur in the future.

In March, 2001, my non-fiction book, Fast Lane to Heaven, was
published containing many of these future visions, including
that a major terrorist attack would befall New York City or
Washington, DC, severely impacting the way we lived in the
United States. Several pages of the Future Visions chapter
clearly describe the rise of terrorism in the world and current
global geopolitical events, particularly in the Middle East.

The book also contained predictions of future earthquakes,
volcanic eruptions, and tidal waves as a result of a shifting of the
Earth axis. In the last few days, scientists have been suggesting
that the recent 9.0 Asian earthquake may have caused the Earth
axis to shift. I suggest that the scientists consider that the
shifting of the Earth axis actually caused the earthquake and the
subsequent tsunami racing over 1,000 miles across the Indian
Ocean. I further suggest that a ripple effect is now spreading
throughout the core of the Earth and more earthquakes, volcanic
eruptions, and tsunamis can be expected.

In the book, I described the vision of a massive tsunami
descending on the U.S. eastern seaboard. I was specifically
shown this event taking place on Eastern Long Island, in New
York City, and Miami in order for me to comprehend the scope
and magnitude of this future event.

I contend that the potential threat from an Atlantic Tsunami is
imminent. Now that the public is aware of the possibility, the
U.S. government and state and local officials should waste
little time in informing and educating the public to the danger,
and officials should begin to implement a disaster plan in
preparation for an Atlantic Tsunami.

End of Press Release.

Ned Dougherty, the author of Fast Lane to Heaven, resides in
Sugarloaf, PA and Southampton, NY. The former nightclub
owner and real estate entrepreneur travels extensively for
speaking engagements and continues to write about his future
visions. He is also Executive Director of the Mission of Angels
Foundation, a non-profit organization he was inspired to create
following his near-death experiences.