Posted on 12/30/2004 7:06:00 AM PST by dead
Those that play in the ocean should be familiar with their surroundings and understand the ocean. When the entire coast line is breaking all at once far out it is time to get the hell off the beach. I started surfing at age 30 and found out the hard way how to judge the surf and waves until I learned from experienced locals. It was clear from these photos that at least some people knew what was coming and others did not. At sea level the waves are breaking near @20 feet or higher with a 10ft. plus or higher tide behind it pushing in and breaking along the entire beach as the tide first was low and way out before the waves began to break hard with the rushing tide. From the distance the wave moved as the woman ran it was moving very fast @75mph or better.
According to the paper she survived along with her family. The waves broke enough that the tide must have been low enough for them to manage escaping to higher ground.
Are you home yet??????/
nah I am in Qatar right now....
waiting on my flight home at the moment....
thank you...
He has seen me (and my wife) through the hardest parts....
Your welcome and thank you for your civi service. It takes great courage to do what you did.
Tsunamis are not normal, steep fronted waves. They are more like a tidal bore. Except instead of the foam line being a couple feet tall, it is, typically, 6 - 150 feet tall. This tsunami was actually much smaller than what was experienced in the North Pacific in '64. One place in Alaska it was *200 feet* tall. Hitting Crescent City, CA, it was still at 20 feet.
Actually, it was devestated. Most of the development on that island is on a low sandspit between two highlands. It was nearly picked clean.
at that location......much higher in other places.
LVM
The wave height was different at various locations.
Places were just wiped clean - photo's from sat - just incredible.
IMHO, most of the video / pics you see on the web do not do justice to what actually happened - they look lame. But that is only one location.
I actually screwed that post up and put feet instead of what I intended, which was meters....
Hey, no problem. There was an earlier post - with sat pics of the northern end of Aceh, I think, - before and after. wiped clean - except for the masque.
Just seems to me that a lot of folks are looking for the pic / video of the "huge wave" - like on the recent movies - coming in.
I'm thinking that the places that saw the big one - did not have the tourists on the beach with the video camera - but are now gone. AKA - the sat pictures. Just heart wrenching.
LVM
I hope that good news will bring a big relief to all the good people who cared all along this thread.
Paris, Wed 12 Jan 2005 14:49:20 +0100
Other news in Google "Karin Svaerd", Swedish family survives wall of water (photo with names), photo of the reunited family.
Paris, Wed 12 Jan 2005 15:37:20 +0100
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