Hilo, Hawaii. Tsunami 1946
Posted on 12/28/2004 5:47:24 AM PST by EnjoyingLife
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/041213/ids_photos_en/r2082916008.jpg
I saw this photo in the Hilo Tsunami Museum. It is NO JOKE! They have tsunami sirens all over the island and test them REGULARLY.
Even yesterday, an Australian on Fox said that he saw the waters receding in Thailand, out 100 yards but thought it was a low tide! That people actually went OUT further.
One of the first things I learned on Okinawa was, if the waters sudenly recede, RUN LIKE THE WIND FOR HIGH GROUND!
Yes, as I heard it explained on FoxNews about 20 minutes ago (they even had simulated visual aids), the shelves deep below the ocean shift, vast volumes of water rush down into the gap created, and the water that rushes forward to take the displaced water's place continues on to the various shores and beaches, and as the depth of the seas decrease as the "wave" comes closer to the beaches, the water rises causing this horrible damage!
It is truly amazing.
Look at the top of the high ground in the photo of the destroyed lighthouse. Bring you eye down untill you see where the grass [?] is gone and there is fresh, black (looking) soil.
I'm going out in the yard and rake some snow.
With the tidal wave caused by a tsunami there is no particular associated wind. There would be only the prevailing wind at the time but no wind caused by the tsunami.
If he did live he moved to China and took on the tank in the square some decades later.
Women weren't allowed to use cameras in public back then.
You're joking right?
Hilo, Hawaii. Tsunami 1946
For a better look? Why? Why?
Do you remember where you read up on this photo? Internet, magazine or newspaper article, book?
Seriously, do we yet have a full appreciation of nature's overt and covert powers?
telegraph.co.uk: A terrible reminder that nature is dangerous http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1309008/posts
very astounding..... nature's power.
Change the date to Sunday, December 26, 2004, the location to Asia, the faces to citizens of ten different countries and tourists of several countries, and you have the same photo. Terrifying.
See that surfboard next to him?
If he is Hawaiian, he would have hopped on that plank and surfed to shore!
NOAA -- World-Wide Tsunamis 2000 B.C. - 1996 http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/tsuintro.shtml
NOAA's NWS Pacific Tsunami Warning Center -- About Tsunamis http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/abouttsunamis.htm
Thats the photo!
The man in the photo was me. I'm doing just fine.
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