'There's Something Strange Happening With the Sea'(Michael Dobbs almost swept away in Tsunami)

Washington Post ^ | December 26, 2004 | Michael Dobbs

[Snapple]

The speed with which it all happened seemed like a scene from the Bible -- a natural phenomenon unlike anything I had experienced before.

As the waters rose at an incredible rate, I half expected to catch sight of Noah's Ark.

[Sola Veritas]

"I'm doubly glad to be safe and warm in my home in Kansas"

Well, there is always next tornado season Toto!

[PlayaDust]

"Within minutes, the beach and the area behind it had become an inland sea, rushing over the road and pouring into the flimsy houses on the other side." Nothing about the people living in these flimsy houses.

He mentions them later in the story.

[Snapple]

I think the impact where he was was not as bad, but I would have drowned in his situation. And his wife might have had she not grabbed a rope.

[Snapple]

HE is an honest reporter.

Here ia one of his stories about the Kinko's documents

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24635-2004Sep15.html

He really knows how to make a case. I learn a lot from reading him. He doesn't prejudge or editorialize. He lets the facts speak for themselves.

[Sola Veritas]

BTW - Many here, including myself, have been concerned about our military facility on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. I just read on Fox that the Pentagon is reporting no damage is being reported from there.

[TexasCowboy]

"He found his wife in a tree.............:o)"

Well, he's fixing to blow twenty bucks for a manicure!

[Ditter]

I was standing on the beach in Hawaii looking at a calm sea. All of a sudden the sea rose up in a wave that was 10 to 12 feet high. I turned and ran but I could not escape it. It caught me and the water rose almost to my waist. The tug of the water was unbelievable, I could feel the sand washing from under my feet, but I was able to continue up the beach and out of the water. It scared the you know what out of me. It was not a tsunami, just a real big wave. My story sounds like fiction too but its not.

[Squantos]

LMAO....depends....was she wearin shoes ?

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Luke 21 25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

[TASMANIANRED]

He found his wife in a tree.............:o) Reverse evolution.

[Moonman62]

BTW - Many here, including myself, have been concerned about our military facility on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. I just read on Fox that the Pentagon is reporting no damage is being reported from there.

I think you have to be a near a very large mass of land for a tsunami to have an effect. They say a person in a boat in the middle of the ocean wouldn't even notice it.

[Moonman62]

I was standing on the beach in Hawaii looking at a calm sea. All of a sudden the sea rose up in a wave that was 10 to 12 feet high. I turned and ran but I could not escape it. It caught me and the water rose almost to my waist. The tug of the water was unbelievable, I could feel the sand washing from under my feet, but I was able to continue up the beach and out of the water.

There are signs all over the coast of Oregon warning of "sneaker waves." I wonder if that's what it was.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Isaiah 24

20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

[jatfla]

I believe your story and I don't care about his politics. What a horrifying experience! And to know that 1000's of others weren't so fortunate over there. I'm still staggered by the number of deaths. My first reaction was it's God's population control. But that was so trite and awful. Such ugly thoughts. Terror, I'm sure, unlike any I've ever imagined. One minute things are sunny, perfect and beautiful...the next destruction, death and horror on every side. Dear God help them.

[reg45]

If they had no electricity, how did they get the story out?

[Godebert]

"My story sounds like fiction too but its not."

Sounds rather ordinary. I've seen plenty of tourists suprised by big waves in Hawaii. One time I saw about a half dozen haoles get rinsed off of a reef.

[Brian Allen]

<< "He found his wife in a tree.."

A lot of American husbands can probably say that. >>

Kerry and KKKling Tong and every other liberal surely can!

The ones, that is, whose "spouses" didn't slither from under rocks and slide from fever swamps.

[Normal4me]

I'd think someone in the middle of the ocean might notice a wave or series of waves traveling at up to 500 mph. Guess it all depends on the depth of the water though?

[Snapple]

They have the story on audio on the front of the post. Probably he called it on on his cell phone. People who travel have extra batteries for their computers and all sorts of fancy phones.

[GOP_Proud]

Cell phone?