To: wilco200; DCBryan1; rlmorel; MsLady
“..NOTE TO SELF: When you see the ocean pull back 300+ meters leaving the reef exposed, RUN LIKE HELL for high ground!”
Anyone ever read “Lucifer’s Hammer” by Jerry Pournelle? There’s a tidal wave description in that book that is hair raising. Caused by an asteroid strike out in the Pacific.
Fiction, yes, but terrifying nonetheless...
116 posted on
03/11/2011 8:59:42 AM PST by
NFHale
(The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
To: NFHale
‘... a highrise, looming like a giant flyswatter..’
117 posted on
03/11/2011 9:04:20 AM PST by
txhurl
To: NFHale
One of my favorite books.
121 posted on
03/11/2011 9:11:46 AM PST by
hattend
(Obama got his 3am call about Egypt. The call went right to the answering machine.- Sarah Palin)
To: NFHale
Anyone ever read “Lucifer’s Hammer” by Jerry Pournelle? yeah....the tidal wave was 50 feet above the city of Memphis as it passed up the Mississippi.
132 posted on
03/11/2011 9:49:23 AM PST by
DCBryan1
(FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists". (Die Ritter der Kokosnuss))
To: NFHale
145 posted on
03/11/2011 12:50:04 PM PST by
NonValueAdded
(Palin 2012: don't retreat, just restock [chg'd to comply w/ The Civility in Discourse Act of 2011])
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