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Chilling Photo of a Past Day: Alone -- Man Faces a Tsunami in Hilo, Hawaii on April 1946
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA), United States Government ^
Posted on 12/28/2004 5:47:24 AM PST by EnjoyingLife
April 1946: Tsunami inundating Hilo, Hawaii. Note the man on pier (lower left).
This disaster provided impetus for C&GS (Coast & Geodetic Survey) to establish the tsunami warning system.Source: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/c&gs/theb2705.htm
Big photo: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/c&gs/images/big/theb2705.jpg
Credit: NOAA Photo Library, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA), United States Government
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: 1946; asia; hawaii; noaa; ocean; pacific; tsunami; wallofwater
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To: nuffsenuff
"Dude! You never know. It could have been a woman."
It might have been a cow too. Or a robot. Or maybe a camera just got bumped.
I'll been money it was a guy.
To: nuffsenuff
Too bad that Barbra Streisand's Malibu home is high up on a bluff, and not beachfront.....I'd like for her to be feeling some angst.
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posted on
12/28/2004 6:23:34 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(ErnBatavia, Coulter, Malkin, Ingraham....the ultimate Menage a Quatro)
To: Mr. Mojo
Cowabungaaaaaaaaaa !
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posted on
12/28/2004 6:24:11 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(ErnBatavia, Coulter, Malkin, Ingraham....the ultimate Menage a Quatro)
To: EnjoyingLife
It says he's on a pier, but to me it looks like a surfboard.
Leave it to the Americans.
To: beyond the sea
Yeah. I saw the photo of the lighthouse.
Nuts.
To: EnjoyingLife
To: EnjoyingLife
They were warned 15 minutes after the quake....they did nothing.
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posted on
12/28/2004 6:29:41 AM PST
by
Route101
To: G.Mason
A click on the images blows it up for a good perspective. ---
Yes I enlarged it. And that lighthouse was 40 feet above the sea level befor the water arrived. Unbelievable!
Someone posted that on the morning after the earthquake.
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posted on
12/28/2004 6:30:22 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(A man who says he can see through women is missing a lot.)
To: ErnBatavia
Too bad that Barbra Streisand's Malibu home is high up on a bluff, and not beachfront.....I'd like for her to be feeling some angst.
After a few years of this it'll be beach front, and then in the sea.......
To: ErnBatavia
high up on a bluff, and not beachfront..LOL. See post # 13 and read about that.
Click on the 'after picture' to enlarge.
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posted on
12/28/2004 6:32:59 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(A man who says he can see through women is missing a lot.)
To: G.Mason
You know if they had built the lighthouse on the bluff overlooking the road instead of right next to the road they would have been ok. You can see the high water mark in the after photo.
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posted on
12/28/2004 6:43:42 AM PST
by
monday
To: EnjoyingLife
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posted on
12/28/2004 6:45:41 AM PST
by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
To: monday
"You know if they had built the lighthouse on the bluff overlooking the road instead of right next to the road they would have been ok. You can see the high water mark in the after photo."An excellent assessment.
That's part of that "woulda, coulda, shoulda", syndrome. ;)
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posted on
12/28/2004 6:51:18 AM PST
by
G.Mason
("It's easy to curb the freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own." – M. Forbes)
To: EnjoyingLife
Naw! No one would be "standing" nonchalant, arms crossed, not a hair out of place, the wind at God knows how many MPH.Look at his shirt....it's not even blowing one bit. Gimme a break. This photo is like the guy at the twin towers with the suicide plane behind him while he poses for a picture. In this photo weather like this would lift him up like a toothpick!
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posted on
12/28/2004 6:51:28 AM PST
by
shiva
To: shiva
The caption mentions a tsunami, with no mention of a typhoon. A tsunami may occur in a dead calm, and is neither created by nor influenced by weather.
To: monday; G.Mason
You know if they had built the lighthouse on the bluff overlooking the road instead of right next to the road they would have been ok.Too far to walk to work for the lighthouse keeper.
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posted on
12/28/2004 7:12:21 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(A man who says he can see through women is missing a lot.)
To: monday; G.Mason
You can see the high water mark in the after photo."Can you describe to me where you see the "high water mark" in the photo? I don't see it.
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posted on
12/28/2004 7:15:02 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(A man who says he can see through women is missing a lot.)
To: punchamullah; shiva
A tsunami may occur in a dead calm, and is neither created by nor influenced by weather. ---
Exactamundo! No wind necessary!
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posted on
12/28/2004 7:16:52 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(A man who says he can see through women is missing a lot.)
To: shiva
Naw! No one would be "standing" nonchalantHe was still fishing.
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posted on
12/28/2004 7:18:31 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(A man who says he can see through women is missing a lot.)
To: EnjoyingLife
40
posted on
12/28/2004 7:21:51 AM PST
by
shield
(The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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