Posted on 03/18/2005 4:20:55 AM PST by nuke rocketeer
This method of extorting research funds from the government is really getting old!
They pray on the stupid. We've been here for more than 600 years, and no record of a tsunami on the Gulf Coast.
Man's Time Scale - Three Score and Ten
Earth's Time Scale - 10 Million Years
Just because we have not had an earthquake along a particular fault in recent memory does not mean one is happening today. In geologic terms, Columbus' landing was an eye-blink ago.
What the doomsayers do is use the grain of truth and play it is an impending and immediate disaster. In reality there is a risk of tsunami anywhere there is a shoreline including large lakes (though highly unlikely). That doesn't mean the risk is greater than it has been.
We are already witnessing a Tsunami along the Gulf Coast which streches as far west as the Pacific ocean. It's a Tsunami of illegals.
Yet, when it finally does happen, the press will be writing, "Why did this happen? Why isn't there an adequate warning system in place? They knew this would happen but how come they didn't warn us?, what did Bush know and when did he know it?!
well silly, it becuase of all the oil wells we're drilling in the Gulf..we're annoying Mother Earth..so
We're pumping so much oil out of the earth that it is shriveling up like a raisin, and that's why there are earthquakes. So, it really IS Bush's fault.
The place was nice and it was fun walking among the sand dunes etc. I was shocked at the water tho. Fortunately since it was winter, we couldn't swim, but the water was brown. I would never swim in such water.
I later took her and our rug rat to Grayton Beach in Florida, near my home. She then knew what I was talking about. Our toddler kept saying snow over and over. The water was clear as crystal.
The difference is that we have early warning systems. We aren't some backwoods third world Asian country.
According to an old friend of mine, the water off Padre Island has always been that color. His grandfather told him that.
The water is brown b/c of the silt content of the rivers exiting to the Gulf of Mexico. There are however, stretches along South Texas that dont' experience that river dumping effect and are quite beautiful.
On the other hand, their beaches really are poor. I guess there are some which are OK, but having also visited those around Freeport and Galveston, I know some are just plain awful.
Not during those 600 years perhaps, but you are forgeting Chicxulub. Actually some of the first indications of where the meteor hit that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was evidence of a massive tsunami along the Texas coast, perhaps some 50 to 100 meters high. See: Chicxulub.
Another meteor is due any day now. Spring breakers better go home and leave the beach to us native Texans!
We've got plenty of bad beaches in FL too, people just don't visit them, or even know about them. It all depends on, like you said, silt, vegetation, currents, and depth.
Sometimes you get bad beaches, like Shell & Alligator Point in the panhandle, and then a few miles down the road on St. George Island, a really nice beach. Also, folks who haven't been there, think the Keys are loaded with great beaches, when actually there are only a few that have large expanses of nice sand. The beaches of Sanibel Island have been my favorite since the late 1970s, but even there only one side of the Island has nice beaches, the other side has mangroves right up to the shoreline.
Since I live at 7500' in the high desert, I have a better chance of drowning in a bucket.
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Try 4.6 billion years.
Hey, a million years here, and a million years there, and pretty soon you're talking about real time (c8
I understand that Texas A&M has a study on how to change the currents in the Gulf of Mexico so that Mississippi River mud lands in Florida, not along the Texas coast. Their conclusion so far is that something in Florida must be repelling the mud, and the best candidate for that is all the plastic flamingo lawn ornaments in Florida.
Consequently, our Governor Rick Perry has decided his next project after the Trans Texas Corridor toll road is to buy 10 million flamingo lawn ornaments for Texas homes.
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