“Way back about 1982 was the last time we had a residual hurricane “eye” pass through the neighborhood.”
If it only passed through your neigborhood then how “epic” could it have been?
Now that I’ve been able to comprehend the scale and scope of what tsunamis can and have done, I think I have a better understanding of what epic proportions really are. If the eye of a hurrican passed through MY neighborhood, I might feel different but the aftermath of this storm or natural disaster they call “Sandy” will pale in comparison to the 2004 and 2011 tsunamis.
Same with solitons, or standing wave forms, particularly the big ones. Yesterday they had 25 foot waves in Lake Michigan. That means there was probably one or more solitons several times that height. Depending on time and opportunity that could have sunk all the big boats on the lake, or crashed into Chicago's Loop and destroyed downtown.
Later on they reported 22 foot waves on Lake Erie. Similar problems could ensue.
It's pretty obvious to geologists who study such matters that the shorelines of all the Great Lakes have been raked by great masses of water.
So, what is it you want? Perhaps you'd like hundreds of thousands of bodies ~ we could have had that ~ simply direct all the folks who live on the shore to just stay there and pretend nothing is happening.
The fact is a modern society knows what to do in the face of certain disaster and does it. The dead bodies disappear. The epic nature abates.