Tsunami warning issued for Southeast (AK) after 7.7 quake in British Columbia

Anchorage Daily News ^ | 10/27/12 | Unknown

[21twelve]

http://www.haig-brown.com/hottips/hotip138.htm

Well - this new one carries 22 vehicles. Doesn’t look suitable for stormy weather if you ask me!

[GrandmaPatriot]

Hawaii is going to get hit. They’re saying 4 to 6 foot. Most of the damage will be in the north facing or north east facing harbors where the water is like in a washing machine. Supposed to hit in about an hour.

[JRandomFreeper]

Major suckage. Prayers up for Hawaii.

/johnny

[GrandmaPatriot]

That and the fact that the state is totally dem corrupt are the horrible things we have to put up with living in paradise.

They are predicting up to 7 ft. in Hilo. That's huge.

[JRandomFreeper]

Not exactly a bridge to nowhere - it’s the only main airport for xxx miles around. And the ferry is more like a glorified barge IIRC.

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt for buying the beer sampler at the restaurant at the south end of Ketchikan.

They do make some good local beers up there.

I'm of 2 minds on the bridge. It isn't any worse than the trams at DFW or the corridors from hell at LAX. It's short, it's sweet, the people are nice, and I got loaned 2 pair of socks when my bags went and I didn't, and had to cross back to Ketchikan for an unauthorized night over. Socks are gold. I also scored a night in a local residence, no charge to transportation and finance. (No joy, I was then, as now, a celibate.)

Personally? I think a bridge is un-needed.

Right up until it is. And it's deep there.

Don't start me on how I stomped the floor on approach to that nasty gravel runway. They don't put rudder pedals on passenger seats.

johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Easier in Alaska, you guys in Hawaii have flat land to cross before you hit a hill. In the part of Alaska I was in, everything.... was uphill or sea level. I could be 100m ASL in a few minutes.

At least the air is thick down there. I got hurt at 7000ft ASL, and they don't make enough air up there.

2 meters isn't so bad in the big scope. Prayers up for you guys, as well.

/johnny

[hosepipe]

7.7 quake.. wonder if its preliminary to the expected big one off the Oregon coast.... with a +hundred foot Tsunami...

[Cvengr]

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=51407&type=2&seriestime=20121028032430

Above link to the NOAA Hawaiian buoy which triggered the alarm. 60+m differentials in water column height.

[Cvengr]

They're still there....

[GrandmaPatriot]

Thanks for the link. We finally went to bed about 11 pm HST and it was downgraded to an advisory at 1 am HST and finally cancelled at 4 am HST. Wave heights were between 1.2' and 2.6'.

I would certainly rather be warned an have it turn out to be much less than expected instead of the other way around.

[steve86]

So that’s where the “Bridge to Nowhere” was supposed to be. I can see both sides of the issue although development in many of these Alaska coastal communities comes pretty slowly bridge or no bridge. But it would certainly open up the land. Still hoping to make it to SE Alaska — probably on the ferry from Bellingham. I have been to Anchorage and environs a couple of times.

[Aurorales]

I lived there for two years. I was stationed in the Coast Guard at the base in Ketchikan. I lived out in town with the locals on Creek Street. Best place I have ever lived.

In my opinion, that so- called bridge to nowhere is needed. I hated that darn ferry.
I have seen structures built all over this country that made not one lick of sense. But can’t for the life of me understand why everyone is so upset over a needed bridge.

Oh and I do remember two tsunami warnings when I lived there. That town is ribboned right on the edge of the island. The rest of the land is a mountain. Everyone moves up to higher ground and waits it out. If a major tsunami hits Ketch, it would wipe out everything.