I guess we can make a thread about it in case something else bad happens in Hawaii or CA.
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:39 am
by TPRJones
I just spoke to a friend from Tokyo, and she has been able to talk to her family. Of course the tsunami wasn't a problem for Tokyo, but the earthquake sure was. All public transportation is shut down. Communications are almost completely shut down. There's structural damage all over the place; she was able to reach her mother and she is fine, but she can't get out of her house because all the door frames were warped and she can't get the doors open.
Heard from a family on a visit in California and the boats to Alcatraz and the island were closed all day.
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:35 pm
by WSGrundy
It seems like there is an increase in tsunami or maybe just the coverage but until the big one several years ago while I had heard of the term I never remember any stories of them happening. Now there seems to be damage from them all the time.
Perhaps the southeast asia one was so damaging that it has everyone on edge but I just don't remember ever hearing about them.
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 5:14 pm
by TPRJones
They happen all the time. So much so that there's all these early warning systems that have been put in place all around the Pacific. Japanese kids grow up learning about them like kids in Kansas learn about tornadoes. Although this was a pretty big one, as was the one in 2004. But the main difference is the world has gotten a WHOLE lot smaller in the last 15 years.
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 5:50 pm
by thibodeaux
WSGrundy wrote:It seems like there is an increase in tsunami or maybe just the coverage but until the big one several years ago while I had heard of the term I never remember any stories of them happening. Now there seems to be damage from them all the time.
Perhaps the southeast asia one was so damaging that it has everyone on edge but I just don't remember ever hearing about them.
I'm half expecting Godzilla to show up and start tearing ass.
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:53 pm
by GORDON
Malcolm wrote:I'm half expecting Godzilla to show up and start tearing ass.
I was having Godzilla thoughts this morning when watching that tsunami live.
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:55 pm
by GORDON
thibodeaux wrote:
WSGrundy wrote:It seems like there is an increase in tsunami or maybe just the coverage but until the big one several years ago while I had heard of the term I never remember any stories of them happening. Now there seems to be damage from them all the time.
Perhaps the southeast asia one was so damaging that it has everyone on edge but I just don't remember ever hearing about them.
I was showing my 5-year-old video footage of the earthquake/tsunami tonight, explaining to him what happened. He was asking about the "slow" surge of water across the landscape, full of cars and houses, and I explained it was a tsunami and it was because the earthquake happened out at sea, etc.
He said, "Oh, you mean a tidal wave?"
No joke. No idea where he learned that.
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:03 am
by Leisher
I was having Godzilla thoughts this morning when watching that tsunami live.
While watching coverage I was thinking both about Godzilla and "how will they blame this on Bush or global warming?"
I predict somebody is already working on a conspiracy theory website showing Godzilla as the real culprit. It'll be a parody of the 9/11 conspiracy sites.