I might if it were really good.
Here is the current species, the lettered olive. They get up to 3'' long and are native to our southeast beaches.
Posted on 08/17/2005 10:12:07 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Bush's Fault!
I might if it were really good.
Here is the current species, the lettered olive. They get up to 3'' long and are native to our southeast beaches.
The Tsunami was for real and is well documented in the Bahamas
There is a program on Discovery Channel describing wave action created by land slides. There was a mountainslide on one of the Canary islands that produced the wave that made great landscape changes on tese islands just off the Florida coast. It is reasonable that some indication also exists in Florida. My recall says the Bahama event wwas not as old as that described in this thread.
The ominous thing is that the volcano producing the slide will slide again. The volcqanologist in UK and the wave scientests in Switzerland predict large damage and huge loss of life in the Bahamas and Florida.
I've worked as a soil scientist on the Coastal Plain now for 17 years, and I have seen abundant evidence in Cretacious-age sediments of at least one, and perhaps several, very large tsunamis hitting the area that is now South Carolina. (In those days North America was in an equatorial latitude). I've also seen some indirect evidence which leads me to suspect a few of them happened at intervals in the late Tertiary/early Quaternary periods. I think catastrophic Tsunamis happen more often than we realize (although still infrequently enough that it's unlikely that we will witness one.)
New Warning: U.S. Gulf Coast Faces High Tsunami Risk.
Also this LINK within the article.
Fishkill isn't really upstate NY (not that there's anything wrong with upstate).
Yes, that's kind of weird.
Actually, it's not surprizing. Almost everyone in the country seems to think everything north of Westchester is upstate; those of us in the disputed region tend to think differently.
Note: this topic was posted 8/17/2005.
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I’ve read somewhere that the greatest risk for a Tsunami for the NC/VA coasts would be if the edge of the very steep underwater ‘shelf’ off the coast collapses out in the ocean. It would create a massive killer wave, and there would be almost no warning at all. I suppose the movement of land would be detected by seismic equipment, but by the time word got out, the beaches would already be receding.
Would be interesting if the water went into the Chesapeake just right, and did a ‘funnel-shot’ right up the Potomac. I’d imagine that cities constructed on top of low lying swamps along the river would be in grave danger. ;^) Not that I’d ever wish for such a thing.... (cough....cough)
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