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Posted on 03/29/2014 5:56:55 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Can you imagine the devastation that would be caused if a massive wall of water several hundred feet high slammed into Florida at more than 100 miles an hour? To many people such a scenario is impossible, but that is what people living along the Indian Ocean thought before the 2004 tsunami and that is what people living in Japan thought before the 2011 tsunami. Throughout history, giant tsunamis have been relatively rare events, but they do happen. Scientists tell us that a mega-tsunami can race across the open ocean at up to 500 miles an hour, and when they reach shore they can produce waves that are hundreds of feet high. And even though authorities claim that the threat to Florida is “remote”, it might surprise you to learn that there are “Tsunami Hazard Zone” signs on Florida beaches. If a highly unusual event (such as a giant meteor hitting the Atlantic Ocean) caused a giant tsunami that hit Florida, the devastation would be absolutely unimaginable.
Most people don’t realize this, but almost the entire bottom half of Florida is just barely above sea level. If a giant tsunami did hit Florida, there would be nothing to stop it from sweeping across the entire state…
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomoutpost.com ...
Women and minorities would be hardest hit.
I have friends down south who had looters during the 2004 storms. The looters were there before the wind even died down. One group went out into the middle of a muddy field to steal a damaged john boat that had been blown 1/3 mile by the wind.
Some disasters are beyond prepping. Ya just have to pray they never come your way.
Well, we wouldn’t need to clean up Florida anyhow. The wave would do that. These articles are fun like ghost stories. Scare the folks without any consequences. Yellowstone could blow and kill most of us. A big landslide into the ocean could wipe out the east coast. A monster 9.1 earthquake could wipe out the Oregon, Washington, California, Hawaii, Alaska and BC coastal areas abd cities. A new Chicxulub asteroid could wipe out 90% of life on earth. A Siberian Trapps style volcano could fry us all after it freezes us all (is that possible?).
All those things are likely to happen in the next several million years, some sooner than others. Perfect security isn’t in the cards IMHO.
South Florida is protected from such scenario by the Bahamas and Cuba.
See my post 56.
Looking on the bright side, a lot of valuable Florida beachfront real estate will be cleared and available for purchase and redevelopment.
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Only thing worse;
SharkNami
I’ve no background in this sort of thing but don’t you need a certain time of topography for the water to encounter as it reaches the shore? It has to draw water from the land and build itself on top of the water that is drawn out? Also, I think, it’s impossible for water to climb that high. It just doesn’t seem possible to have a wall of water that high in the middle of the ocean.
Yes. The famous Maverick's surf spot off of Half Moon Bay, Ca gets its enormous waves from a deep offshore trench. When the waves make landfall, all that big water has to go somewhere -- and that somewhere is UP.
Well, there was a rogue wave Thursday in Panama City Beach, FL. It crossed the wide beaches and water went inside some hotels/businesses along the Gulf of Mexico.
I had a video of it but deleted it....sorry...
You mean like Howey-In-The-Hills, in Lake County?
Guess that would change Florida’s electoral votes.
How many drunk Spring breakers did it get?
several hundred feet tall? where did that hit recently?
as for what would happen... about as much of a problem as if it washdc or nyc
Google La Palma Canary Islands....
“Height of tsunami” information is very misleading.
The height reached is largely a consequence of conformation of the land off and onshore at a specific point where it comes ashore.
132.5 feet is the very highest point reached by it at the point where the land’s shape was most conducive. Nothing at all to do with the average or general height.
That would be Space Mountain at Disney World.
There is a difference in the height of the water as it comes ashore versus the runup height - the height the water reaches as more and more gets piled up on shore and fights for a place to go. That article you linked to says the Indonesia tsunami “reached a height of 108 feet” - but there wasn’t a 108 foot tall wall of water coming ashore.
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