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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

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To: nuffsenuff
nuffsenuff wrote: Damn. I was telling my wife last night, tidal waves are one of my worst nightmares. I've had many dreams where I saw this 100 foot wave coming in and couldn't run fast enough to get away.... (shivers)

I think it's a safe to say that most of, if not all, the entire world wishes the Great Earthquake and Great Tsunami of 2004 is an unusual collective nightmare that at sunrise, at any moment now, we will awake from.

The harsh reality is that was a nightmare, a living nightmare occurring while we were fully awake.

61 posted on 12/29/2004 11:36:40 AM PST by EnjoyingLife
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To: malia

Ping! Hope you and your family had a good Christmas!


62 posted on 12/29/2004 12:20:32 PM PST by Springman
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To: Springman

Well, thank you and Happy New Year to you and your family!!!


63 posted on 12/29/2004 12:46:04 PM PST by malia (a cherished constitutional right -- the right to vote!)
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To: EnjoyingLife

Yes, I would be interested in more information about this event.

Anyone have a news link??

Grant
http://www.rtgconsultants.com/


64 posted on 12/30/2004 5:27:16 AM PST by GShells
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To: GShells

Welcome to FR.


65 posted on 12/30/2004 5:28:24 AM PST by RandallFlagg (FReepers, Do NOT let the voter fraud stories die!!!! (Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name))
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To: EnjoyingLife

To be all that frank I'm not sure I'd recongize the difference between an unusually tall wave and a tsunami either...


66 posted on 12/30/2004 5:29:41 AM PST by Nataku X (There are no converts in Islam... only hostages.)
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To: neuron2

Seriesly?


67 posted on 12/30/2004 5:31:05 AM PST by Nataku X (There are no converts in Islam... only hostages.)
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To: EnjoyingLife
Waves of destruction wash away belief in God's benevolence
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Opinion/Waves-of-destruction-wash-away-belief-in-Gods-benevolence/2004/12/29/1103996611542.html?oneclick=true

How can religious people explain something like this?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1380094,00.html

We're all struggling with this calamity-catastrophe.

68 posted on 12/30/2004 9:04:16 AM PST by EnjoyingLife
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To: Brilliant

It's probably what is left of the pier.


69 posted on 12/30/2004 9:17:30 AM PST by cubreporter
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70 posted on 12/30/2004 9:21:25 AM PST by New Perspective (Proud father of an 13 month old son with Down Syndrome)
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To: HMFIC; Alissa
You're right, the man didn't survive. And there's more.

From http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2004/s2200.htm:

"The photo was taken from the Brigham Victory, which was in the harbor at the time of the event. The ship was caught by the waves and tossed about but was able to use its own power to avoid the reefs and get past the breakwater to the open sea."

The article doesn't say why the man was out there, but what a terrible way to die.

The above quote and link was copied straight from the http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20050103.htm ("The Great Earthquake and Catastrophic Tsunami of 2004") where it's the -- get this -- 12th tsunami-related photo. The other 11 pics are definitely worth viewing too.

71 posted on 01/03/2005 5:06:45 AM PST by EnjoyingLife
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