Posted on 03/10/2011 10:13:38 PM PST by Ronin
Live interview at Tsunami Warning Center.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/category.asp?C=176904&nav=menu55_1_1
Anything from Guam yet?
Oh no.. I just realized that I have an American friend (not a freeper, but a very conservative person) in Aomori.. can’t get any phone connection to check on him and his family.... you know of any way to check up on them?
Quote:
http://www.facebook.com/COMNAVFORJAPAN/posts/10150100777407124
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Commander, Naval Forces Japan
From Commander Naval Forces Japan: All US Navy personnel, civilian employees, contractors and Japanese workers are requested to contact their respective commands and inform them of their personal status and whereabouts. If phone lines are busy please continue to find any means available to make your status known however your own safety is the first priority.
3 minutes ago
You are 500' about sea level. If it's THAT bad, do you want to be awake?
I’m thinking you are ok in Petaluma. Just be ready to head inland if needed.
Gas up the car, pull out some cash, lock-n-load, etc.
OMG .. it’s been surreal to watch. Just breathtaking
devastation .. it could’ve been a horror movie .. but
it wasn’t. You’ll see the videos replayed over and
over and your jaw will drop.
All over the world, the incidents of earthquakes, tornadoes, natural disasters .. like the earth is in shuddering, angry spasms. God protect us all.
Interesting...
I was in the parking lot behind Exit-In, talking on a cell phone looking North at the low-level fast-moving clouds. Told the lady on the phone that it looked like a tornado was coming. She said - “funny you should mention that as they just announced a tornado warning for Davidson County on the radio”. This was pre-sirens in Nashville.
I looked to my left and what did I see? A giant, 1/2 mile wide, rotating, rain-filled monster. And it was coming through Centennial Park (for those who don’t know, it was less than 1/2 mile from me and closing quickly). Looked around for a place to go, then a lady opened the back door of her business, said “get in here”, and I ran for that door.
By the time I made it there, the storm was on me, the wind was very strong, and debris was hitting the side of the building all around me. Once we were inside, the front plate glass window imploded and debris swirled inside.
In just seconds it was over and I was able to go out the front of that building and watch the storm travel down Church Street until hitting the city directly.
I’d say the bulk of the storm was less than 10 seconds behind me as the plate glass blew out just as soon as we got the door closed and moved into the inner part of the building.
Was a fascinating experience, one I have retold many times ;)
Where were you?
It is an oil refinery in Chiba Prefecture..
Early reports where that the fire trucks could not get there, not sure about now.. too many reports going on at once to know what is reliable info..
Brilliant!
I don’t know if this has been posted or not, but Al Jazeera has live news via YouTube. They are talking about a tsunami that is going to hit Indonesia within an hour to an hour and a half.
http://www.youtube.com/aljazeeraenglish?feature=ticker
I just called a friend who lives in Seal Beach. They were still up working, but had not watched the news. Had no idea there were warnings out or that anything unusual was even going on.
It doesn’t sound good when the say the city was “destroyed”. I hope they just mean damagaged. The Japanese are WAY more advanced than most countries when it comes to building stuff for EQ. But a tsunami is more difficult to build for.
The Pacific coastal areas are MUCH better prepared for the tsunami warnings than the Indonesian/Thailand/India region - so hopefully deaths around the ocean will be few. The tsunami is what killed so many in the Sumatra quake. BUT, I imagine that there are many small villages on small islands that will have no warning.
Sad to think that here we can sit at our PC and monitor tidal gauges and ocean bouys to track the tsunami (if we wanted to), or at least monitor the news, while many of those that will be affected have no clue what is about to hit them. Prayers for everyone.
God Bless you.
Anything from Guam yet?
I haven’t heard. Wake island wave arrival is estimated at 55 minutes. No word on Guam.
All of their nuclear plants are shut down, basic power and other supplies to a city of 4 million is going to be a big project, with another month or more of aftershocks ahead
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