Posted on 02/27/2010 4:37:11 AM PST by kristinn
Lots of cameras all pointed toward the shore...FOX has been showing several webcams ...waiting.
From Twitter:
Forecasters predict arrival of tsunami waves on California coast about 1:30 p.m. local time (4:30 p.m. ET)
am i reading that right and La Jolla is coming up on a “scheduled” very low tide? That’s best-case timing if accurate.
KGMB:
Police and Rescue will move inland at the 11AM Siren. And sadly, a whole bunch of morons will stay.
Thanks, I’m watching it, just blew my html to share the link.
Time for a new doc.
(((((HUGS))))
Naw... I just need a spill cker
“We are counting on the public to follow all the instructions of our emergency personnel,” said Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle. “Anyone who is ordering you to evacuate you need to take it seriously. We need you to evacuate in an orderly fashion.
Lingle expressed confidence in the state’s preparations, adding that early indications are that Maui might be hit harder than Honolulu.
“Every county is very prepared, whether it’s issues of the homeless or the visitors, the airports. I think everyone is playing the role that they are assigned in this knid of emergency,” she said.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had been briefed and was monitoring developments from Vancouver, where she is leading a U.S. delegation for the Olympics.
Four Hawaii-based U.S. Coast Guard cutters prepared to get underway to ride out the tsunami at sea, and the service planned to reposition aircraft at low-lying Air Station Barbers Point near Honolulu to be able to respond if big waves hit, officials said.
Lingle declared a state of emergency, a step aimed at making needed resources available, including the National Guard, which was on standby, Ichishita said. Several water pumping stations that are in low-lying areas are also being shut down to prevent equipment from being damaged by flooding, she said.
OMG, FOX just showed a clip of the rotating warning siren and a whole bunch of birds were flying and dropping out!
:-) Hmmm, strawberry and chili???? Whatever floats your boat (no pun intended) Well, better hurry-——it’s after noon now.
Now compare Lingle and the 2 Mayors with Blanco and Nagin.
Good grief. Night and Day.
Guidelines for creating a disaster preparation kit, streamed video reports via UStream and a live Twitter feed are at http://hitsunami.info/.
“Safeway is beginning to run out of bottled water. LINES all the way through the store to check out. GAS LINE AT 7-11 blocks n blocks long,” Twitter user Kelly Mitchell in Honolulu, Hawaii, reported at 5 a.m. (10 a.m. ET).
An hour earlier, she posted: “We will head to higher ground. We live on the ocean so we aren’t safe at home.”
The city and county of Honolulu has links to evacuation maps for the island of Oahu. Links to maps for all the islands are at http://hitsunami.info/.
PER TWITTER:
Tsunami underway in Gisborne, New Zealand, water receding
Gisborne harbour
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