Blah blah blah... We could get hit by a meteor too.
This is the classic "it's a slow news day so lets scare the sheep" story.
A system is alrady in place.
See above.
I also heard from another source that the big East Coast thingie would start at the New England coast and go down to Miami. But what was interesting was that they said it would flood 20 km inland...I'd be wiped out; I live 7 miles inland.
Its that...and more.
Its opportunistic scientists looking for Federal grant money. A frightened public will now ask their Congresscritters, "why aren't we looking into this???" Looking for votes, Congress will gladly give these scientists our money for more computer modelling, despite the fact that a safety system is already in place.
And traffic jams are a great place to drown....
It could cause a doozie of a tsunami if it fell into water...even the Great Lakes or the Gulf Of Mexico.
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."