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Posted on 10/24/2011 12:59:09 PM PDT by LucyT
Some 5 to 20 million tons of debris--furniture, fishing boats, refrigerators--sucked into the Pacific Ocean in the wake of Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami are moving rapidly across the Pacific.
Researchers from the University of Hawaii tracking the wreckage estimate it could approach the U.S. West Coast in the next three years, the UK Daily Mail reports.
"We have a rough estimate of 5 to 20 million tons of debris coming from Japan,"
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Well, I guess that depends on what your definition of "rapidly" is:
it could approach the U.S. West Coast in the next three years
I think I could WALK that far in 3 years.
Somebody should drop a line to the producers of “American Pickers.”
I wouldn't want to open any of those refrigerators that have been floating for years.
Since it wasn't mentioned, it's probably highly radioactive; otherwise they would be telling everyone not to worry.
Travis Magee, you out there? Fire up the boat. I’ll bet there’s a load of dolphin under all that debris!
Uhhh, cars and heavy sinking objects will scrape along the pacific floor and wash up in California...doesn’t seem real to me, perhaps sticks etc..small stuff I could see..may be wrong...
Looks to me like it won’t hit Hawaii , just pass by to the north en route to the US West Coast .
No gross! But those boat hulls and the fishing equipment and floats etc, many would be salvageable and sellable. Maybe even a lot of the timbers and large wood pieces. My understand is Japan imports the most expensive wood as it is highly valued in Japan.
Apparently you missed the miniscule mainland coverage of the tsunami damage in Hawaii. There were pics of a house in Kealakakua bay that was floating away. Water surges in, drains back, pulling house off the foundation.
Maybe we send out to sea those two guys on Cable TV who rummage through peoples’ junk, “Pickers” , I think they call themselves. You know, those guys from Iowa who get all hopped up when they spot rusted out bicycle frames sticking out of the ground.
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> Ping
. . . . Update:
Early computer models predicted that the debris would not hit the United States for two to three years. But a Russian training ship, the STS Pallada, following a map of the computer models, hit an extended field of debris in mid-Pacific, close to Midway Island, a U.S. territory about 1,700 miles from Hawaii.
The ship’s encounter with the 1,000-mile-long mass of tsunami debris came in September — 300 miles ahead of schedule, and nearly 2,000 miles from the site of the tsunami in Japan.
The ship’s crew found a battered, 20-foot fishing boat marked “Fukushima,” the same spot in Japan that was ground zero for the tsunami.
The Pallada’s crew sailed through the debris, surrounded by everything from appliances and televisions to furniture, all of it now headed straight for Hawaii.
The first of it is expected to hit Midway Atoll this winter, then Hawaii in early 2013, and the U.S. West Coast — mainly Washington and Oregon — in early 2014.
Experts now estimate that lighter objects will wash ashore Midway’s beaches this winter.
ABC News Radio contributed to this report.
http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=2318920&spid=
Sounds like they are dumping the trash and blaming the tidal wave, floating appliances?
If it is, it is..
Still sounds like timber left over from the SF OWS burning of the buds..
I am sorry, please excuse my verbage...sticks left over from their cleaned pot buds..
Maybe its a shipment of Hope to the occupy wall street crowd..
LOL!!! Part the seas and collapse them on himself....
Cars, whole houses and even severed feet in shoes: The vast field of debris from Japan earthquake and tsunami that's floating towards U.S. West Coast
Wow what do you know, I am thinking..looks bad..we’ll see..
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