On the less serious side, a Nat Geog tsunami vid included an interview with a couple who, in the early 1960s, heard one of the very first tsunami warnings after the system got established, and drove down to a park on the ocean “to watch the tsunami come in”. The water crossed the beach, filled the parking lot, and they panicked and tried to drive off, but they were (and this is the fun part) were in a VW Beetle, so the wheels weren’t on the ground. The tsunami started to recede, the car bumped up against the fence, finally settled back onto its wheels, and they then, finally, got out of there. Hippies.
The water crossed the beach, filled the parking lot, and they panicked and tried to drive off, but they were (and this is the fun part) were in a VW Beetle, so the wheels weren’t on the ground. The tsunami started to recede, the car bumped up against the fence, finally settled back onto its wheels, and they then, finally, got out of there. Hippies.
“That was, like, far out man”!