Taking advantage of his day off on Tuesday, Brian Gray muted his social media and walked for hours along the trail above Tonquin Beach in Tofino, B.C. By the time he got home, it was 9 p.m., and he'd completely missed any news about the tsunami advisory hours earlier.

He returned to work for his opening shift at Rhino Coffee House on Campbell Street find a noticeable split in the way customers and colleagues were debriefing: nonchalant locals talking about the tsunami news "like it was the hockey game last night," while deeply concerned visitors looked for reassurance the risk was truly gone.

Gray, 31, says he reassured a colleague from Denmark who was in tears.

"There's definitely a divide and reaction between people who aren't from Tofino and people who are out of town," said Gray, wh

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