Posted on 08/11/2004 5:57:52 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie
The question I have is what does this fellow expect us to do about it? I mean, installing sensors so we have two week notice is great, but then what?
Head for the hills, Wilmington is a good target.
A number of scientists have torn apart the various calculations, stating the projected wave height is far too high, etc., but of course, since that's not exciting and scary, it's never made the popular press.
I'm on the West Coast. I'll trade a tsunami for all of the illegal aliens in California. That is the bigger disaster.
Why, he's going to get all his Saudi friends out of the country before they can be questioned, right?
At least, that's what I heard.
I should add that he would wait idly by for seven minutes, first.
Renounce your citizenship, move to Mexico and then sneak back in across the border.
You will get free health care, your kids will go to school free and you can get a driver's license.
Goodby left coast when that happens.
Laws of nature, we can do a thing about it, why worry?
On the other hand, if my house is suddenly beachfront, I'm talking a million dollar property value increase! Sweet!
Hey boomop, long time no "see"! I cant head for Wilmington, I have my master plan to buy a crappy hell hole bar in Camden NJ and wait for Philly to be dumb enough to pass a "no smoking in bars" law...cha ching!
Yeah, it doesn't sound right. At 540mph a wave 150 meters high that "keeps coming" for 15 minutes would be 140 miles long (deep) have a mass far far far exceeding that of the fallen island.
Women and minorities hardest hit.
I was puzzled at first until I noticed a new one with Tsunami written on it.
I'll trade a tsunami for all of the illegal aliens in California.
Yeah! It'll wash off all the ... errr ... compost materials?
If it will not happen for decades or centuries, there is plenty of time to break the island up. There is also time to double check this guy's math.
Do what they do to prevent avalanches, blow up small sections at a time----but then I'm on some potential beach front property here in Kansas....
Drop explosives in water, detonate at the proper time, send the tidal wave back to EUrope.
This is "Pay Attention To Me NOW!" crap. See:
http://www.drgeorgepc.com/TsunamiMegaEvaluation.html
by a professor in Hawaii who took this scare story apart. He agreed with an estimate of a worst-case scenario of about a one-meter high wave at the U.S. & Brazilian coast.
"Full Navier-Stokes modeling brings the maximum expected tsunami wave amplitude off the U.S. east coast to about one meter. Even with shoaling effects, a tsunami from a La Palma slide would still be of concern but does not present an unmanageable threat or a significant far field hazard."
mostly a self-ping... I'm not at home, and will have to visit here when I am.
Heck, I've seen storm generated surf that dwarfs the recalc of a few meters. Even the worst case for the E.Coast at 20m is, as many surfers know, is not unheard of in a number of areas. Although it would cause plenty of damage in areas that do not routinely get big waves.
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