Hurricane Ivan, Largest Wave Ever Measured

Science News Magazine ^ | 6-11-2005 | Sid Perkins

[ncpatriot]

No wonder we flooded. Locals say it was a 500 yr flood.

[Normal4me]

Alright now....how yr's in a meter?

[Normal4me]

Dangit, throw a many in there. I need a beer...

[steve86]

I have two meters on the back of my house, one electric and one gas.

I have a multimeter but there is no metric conversion on it.

[blam]

"No wonder we flooded. Locals say it was a 500 yr flood."

We attained a '500-year-flood' status here during Hurricane Danny.

[AnAmericanMother]

Either ya gotta lotta numbers on that speedometer, or a REALLY slow car. Kinda like my old British Letdown - we didn't use a stopwatch to measure 0-60, we used a calendar . . .

My horse is so slow, we say she couldn't catch cold if you spotted her five furlongs.

[TXnMA]

27.7 meters = 19.7 Arshins

[nwctwx]

thanks for the ping Howlin, interesting read.

[yarddog]

That can't be right. An Arshin is less than a meter. Maybe you multiplied where you should have divided. I have an old Russian rifle on which the sight is marked in Arshins.

[SamAdams76]

Why do these other countries insist on using these obscure units of measurement? Meters, litres, grams, etc. Are they just trying to confuse the heck out of the rest of us?

[Graybeard58]

I tried to learn metric for a lustrum and gave it up.

That's enough time trying to learn one subject.

[ncpatriot]

I never heard of a 500 yr flood til I moved to the mtns. I just read your About Page and see you're from Alabama. You really got hit by Ivan acc to article: It happened on September 16 last year when Hurricane Ivan stormed across the Gulf of Mexico and tore into the coast of Alabama, accompanied by 130mph winds and storm surges 8ft high.

God bless you!

[TXnMA]

Oooops! You are correct.

an Arshin is 0.7112 meters

so...

27.9 meters = 38.95 Arshins

Sorry 'bout that... '-)

[TXnMA]

As another FReeeper noted, FR can really be an educational place!

I just learned about Arshins (and I bet you just learned about Varas)

One Vara = 33.33 inches AKA a "Spanish Yard". Texas land surveys that date back to Mexican (or even Rebublic of Texas) times are in Varas.

FWIW, I'm an engineer, too... ;-}

[TheForceOfOne]

I work for a company that has supplied pipeline equipment to an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico for BP America. I believe it was a 36" or 42" pipeline. The units used micron size particle filters to obtain relatively clean water from the Gulf. The water is then processed for use on the platform.

[TheForceOfOne]

We have also dealt with Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc. (Halliburton) which puts me on the sh&%t list with the liberal left! LOL

[EnquiringMind]

Wow. In 1986 we boarded the QEII in NYC for an 8-day Caribbean cruise. The ship had just returned from a rough transatlantic crossing...the evening before our trip, on the 5:00 news, there was the QEII, pulling into the harbor, ambulances waiting at the pier to greet injured passengers. Apparently, people were so tossed around that many broke arms and legs. We sailed on schedule, but huge dining room windows were boarded up with plywood.

[sine_nomine]

If that happened to me, I would not dispute a few feet here or there!

[DouglasKC]

I wish they'd use real numbers when reporting this stuff.

My very first thought also...

[sine_nomine]

I need it in parasangs. I have been reading Xenophon again.