Posted on 01/03/2005 12:34:11 PM PST by Pyro7480
Maybe this would be a good thing. San Francisco, Oakland, and LA all need a good enema anyways.
Since I live inland about 30 miles from the coast, maybe the after effect is I would have Ocean Front property!.
"Much of the California coast is bordered by seacliffs - which minimize the tsunami risk."
And excessively secured celebrity mansions with barriers as high as the Great Wall.
That's why I asked the question in #12 in the first place.
"Question for you. Does CA have clearly marked "Tsunami Evacuation Route" signs along the coast roads?"
I thought it was a Federal regulation that made them appear suddenly a few years ago, didn't pay them much more than a passing thought, as in, Duh! Big water coming leave now!, but as I was breaking for lunch this thread started, so I kinda went with it.
The lack or seeming lack of Tsunami Evacuation signs in CA kinda piqued my curiosity.
It may be sick humor, but I think I'll take along one of the evacuation signs and post it at LoLo pass next trip to Sturgis....that ought to be high enough.
I've got bad news for you. The shape of the harbors will intensify the wave.
Did you know that tsunami is Japanese for "harbor wave"?
It could cause a doozie of a tsunami if it fell into water...even the Great Lakes or the Gulf Of Mexico.
Yep.
Key word is "if."
Evidence Of Tunguska-Type Impacts Over The Pacific Basin In 1178AD
"A number of observations suggest that catastrophic cometary or meteoritic impacts around the same time also affected the Pacific basin: Maori legends of great fires destroying forests and the moa bird, to be associated to the recently found Tapanui craters; dynastic changes and migrations throughout Polynesia; very intense El Niño activity with flooding of the coastal Peruvian regions; demise of the local Moche civilizations, and the birth of the Incas civilization higher in the Andes; the emigration of the Aztecs from the Pacific coast to the interior in the most well protected area from tsunamis; unusually intense typhoon activity in the Chinese-Japanese see; unusually strong floods in Northern China with diversion of the course of the Huang Ho; unusually cold wheather in the Mongolian plateau, probably a main reason for the Mongolians invading nearby areas; a great sign in the sky seen by the boy Gengis Khan forecasting his future of world master; the number of comets seen in the sky as recorded by Chinese astronomers was unusually higher."
LOL! Wouldn't a helicopter work better? ;-)
Of course, the celebrity mansions on top of the sea cliffs occasionally tumble down the side when it rains hard! ;^)
and it could not!
however, when the big one hits LA.....expect 100s of thousands dead and injured and burning of bodies...it is in the disaster plan.
I'm originally from Marin County (San Rafael) and I lived in Danville for a while in the early 90's (I now live in Reno, NV). It's funny because when I lived in the Bay Area, the Raiders were in l.a. and my uncle had season tickets when the Silver and Black played there so that's when it kind of all began for me.
Not to worry - the UN and the World will help US generously...
Completely true. I don't argue that at all -- it is, in fact, part of my point.
It's more a matter of mindset: how many folks would try to escape in their cars? Probably a lot of them -- for some reason, "getting away" seems to have evolved in many to a mindset of hopping in the car and driving to safety.
I'm guessing that IF a tsunami ever chose to hit; and IF people had some kind of warning, that the majority of fatalities would be people stuck in their cars. JMO....
Note: this topic is from 01/03/2005. Thanks Pyro7480.
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Note: this topic is from 01/03/2005. Thanks Pyro7480.
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