Ah, I remember it well. It was a Tuesday, it was raining and I was waiting for a stop light to change.....
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I remember it too, it washed away my second home at the beach. Then the insurance company wouldnt pay up, and we had to bull doze the dunes back in place.
All those buses parked side by side.
"Ah, I remember it well. It was a Tuesday, it was raining and I was waiting for a stop light to change....."
No, no - that was days later. Really -
It was a dark and stormy (Saturday) night when a blast of hot wind from hell hit me square in the face. I knew then that something hugh and series was up. Little did I know what the world was soon about to find out - that Mohammed farted his first Koranic verse. I braced myself for the coming tsunami, for I knew that out of the destruction and rubble would be born the First Crusade.
;^D
“Ah, I remember it well. It was a Tuesday...”
The last huge earthquake in the Pacific Northwest caused a huge tsunami. Geologists figured it out in the 1980’s or so. Some pretty interesting sleuthing went into it. Then they figured out that the dead forests along the coast of Washington State had died when the ground suddenly lowered into the salt water.
So they dated the tree rings to the year 1700/1701 or so. The natives had stories of the earthquake and tsunami in their lore - but of course no white guys around here at that time.
Then a few more years or whatever of searching - or perhaps it was just by chance - but they came across some records in Japan. They kept detailed records of all of their earthquakes and tsunami. In their records they have a very large tsunami hitting Japan - but no record of any quakes.
So - based on the size of the wave and the timing of it’s arrival - they have dated that earthquake off the coast of Washington state to a specific hour! It was either Christmas or New Year’s day in 1700.
(Sorry for such a long story after your funny post.)