Posted on 02/27/2010 6:51:26 AM PST by JoeProBono
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California warned its coastal cities to prepare for possible tsunami waves following a deadly magnitude-8.8 earthquake off the coast of Chile.
A tsunami advisory was issued for the coast of California and an Alaskan coastal area from Kodiak to Attu islands....
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Surfs Up
That Graphics does not jib with the story
Yeah...I was in Pismo Beach one year when it had a tsunami warning. Everyone went to the beach to watch it. The area where you drive out to the dunes is all flat...no hill to scramble up if it had come in. Had an RV a few hundred yards from the beach and thought, oh well...it will take too long to hook up and pull it out anyways. Shortly after that a train with propane on it derailed 100 feet from the line of RVs and almost took us out.
From the LA Times:
A MINOR TSUNAMI MAY BE RECORDED IN SOME AREAS OF THE COAST WHICH COULD PRODUCE DANGEROUS CURRENTS AND SURGES IN HARBORS AND BAYS.
PEOPLE ARE ADVISED TO STAY AWAY FROM THE BEACHES AND MARINAS. WAVE HEIGHTS AND CURRENTS ARE AMPLIFIED BY IRREGULAR SHORELINES AND ARE DIFFICULT TO PREDICT.
MINOR WAVE FLUCTUATIONS TWO FEET OR LESS ARE EXPECTED TO BEGIN WITHIN 30 MINUTES OF THE ESTIMATED ARRIVAL TIMES LISTED BELOW: PORT SAN LUIS HARBOR...AT 1235 PM PST. SANTA BARBARA HARBOR...AT 1231 PM PST. SANTA MONICA HARBOR....AT 1225 PM PST. SAN PEDRO HARBOR.......AT 1215 PM PST.
THESE MINOR WAVE FLUCTUATIONS COULD CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL HOURS. THE INITIAL WAVE MAY NOT BE THE LARGEST. MARINERS IN WATER DEEPER THAN 600 FEET SHOULD NOT BE AFFECTED BY THE TSUNAMI.
It’s gettin ridiculous. As a precaution, the Tsunami for Hawaii and California was released, and ‘not expecting’ much of anything out of it, to watch out it’s coming !(in a few hours)
But makes ‘news’ by jizzing it up....
Bad map - shows the tsunami originating off the Autralian coast
It’s just a file photo showing travel times- should have indicated that. Mybad.
LOL!
Reminds me of this:
I had a wonderful employee once, of whom I was very fond--a wonderful lady, who kept track the birthdays of all her fellow employees--almost a hundred of them-- On each person's birthday, she brought a birthday cake to work.
That's right. You guessed it.
When her birthday came around, nobody remembered it. Nobody even thought to say Happy Birthday to her. Including me.
Of course, when I realized what had happened, I fell all over myself apologizing and trying to make it up to her. Everybody did. We all felt like a bunch of slobs. For good reason. That's what we were.
You remember the old adage: Don't expect anything from other people. That way you won't be disappointed.
Surfers maybe. There are always folks surfing. I'd bet that further up the Coast there are guys right now, planning on getting into position at Mavericks, just in case they can catch something semi-epic. It breaks there best in a Southerly.
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