Tonight's Tsunami in California

[fingpilot]

All of California's wacko population is headed to the beaches, bays and harbors of California for the arrival, at 9:25-ish tonight, of a Tsunami from Samoa.

With any luck, assembly district political gerrymandering will be required by the Democrats by noon or so tomorrow to restore the majority lost due to most of the wacko population no longer within swimming reach of a polling station.

BTW, the cast and crew of the presently-filming series 'Survivor' are unaffected by the passing wave.



P.S. I sure do hope that this does not end up in PARF.

[Jim Bremner]

[Hugh R]

Seriously, I've taught film crews going to south seas locations that you need to check for tsunami warnings and when the water goes out of the bay real quick, it's time to head inland FAST

[slodave]

Surf's up dude!

[cl8ton]

Brah totally had that drop, but he took a nose-dive on his bottom turn and got crushed.

[Schumi]

Just saw the NOAA or whatever web page with the 'forecast'...

the swell was going to be between 15 and 30 cm. wooooo.

How could you even tell the difference between that and regular waves.

Idiots are everywhere, including CA. It's not just WV anymore.

[Bill Douglas]

We in New Zealand are a lot closer to you and it was only about 400mm, in non-metric that's about knee high.

Samoa got a trashing with about 45 people dead.

[dd74]

Tsunamis can't occur off the Cali coast. The incline to shore is too shallow, FWIH.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by dd74

Tsunamis can't occur off the Cali coast. The incline to shore is too shallow, FWIH.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news; but yes it can. A tsunami is different to a ground swell which peters out with a shallow shore. A tsunami is something like a metre high but is followed by a wall of water that is also a metre high. This water may be for the next 60 miles behind the wave and it's going fast. So the huge amount of water bowls things flat and keeps going way inland (maybe a mile in a flat ground location).

The 400mm we got ways almost tipping large yaughts over at their moorings.

[slodave]

I'm not worried. The Santa Monica's will stop a big wave.

[Jim Bremner]

there's a STEEP drop of just of the Los angeles coast. If there's a big underwater slide there it won't be a nice day in the LA bay area.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

We in New Zealand are a lot closer to you and it was only about 400mm, in non-metric that's about knee high.

Samoa got a trashing with about 45 people dead.

I was wondering about NZ being so close - did you guys feel the quake at all?

[Laneco]

Crescent City, Californi has had 17 Tsunami's since 1943 (per wiki...). The most notable one was in 1964 triggered by the Alaska earthquake. Killed about a dozen people if memory serves. Most aren't big enough to do damage though.

angela

[creaturecat]

They swim, while you troll?

[nostatic]

My work is in a "Tsunami Evacuation Zone". I wonder if this means I should take the day off just to be safe.

[pete3799]

Originally Posted by nostatic

My work is in a "Tsunami Evacuation Zone". I wonder if this means I should take the day off just to be safe.

Just roll up your pantlegs

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

I was wondering about NZ being so close - did you guys feel the quake at all?

No I didn't notice anything. It has to be local and a big quake before I notice it.

One thing was interesting. In this country a lot of goverment people are paid a lot of money to have systems in place to warn people in low lying coastal areas of tsunami risks. They were 100% useless and the only information was from a TV chanel phoning around, including phoning an earthquake place in California, and a kiwi website called stuff.co.nz who did their own research.

I just put a handfull of belongings in the car and got the dog and cat ready to flee, then watched the TV for the latest.

The wave was so big in Samoa that debris was found on the top of lamposts and power poles.