The altitude of Portland civic center is 20 ft the Columbia River is about 15'. I wonder what the tidal bore on the Columbia River would look like with a 30' Tsunami?
Posted on 05/09/2011 7:29:27 PM PDT by decimon
My heart tells me that the Japanese will weather this latest calamity. They are a sturdy people, and are seldom overcome by Nature.
My prayers are all I can offer.
Yah... I was a Coastie stationed on a Cutter in Astoria. I’ve been up and down the river to portland a couple of times. Once I did it with the Columbia River Pilots, on a big car-carrier. That... was a gas...
The altitude of Portland civic center is 20 ft the Columbia River is about 15'. I wonder what the tidal bore on the Columbia River would look like with a 30' Tsunami?
When the great volcanos of 1902 hit St. Vincent and Martinique, coastal areas in St. Vincent varied by 15’ or more as a result of the eruptions.
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It is possible to have “splay” or “pop up” faulting along a subduction zone.
A 7.9? Really? Which part of the state was affected? (Not Anchorage, I’m assuming.)
Some of the Indians took it quite hard, freaked out; others in stride. Funny thing it's not the ones you think have it together that deal with adversity well, no joke. I hear it was the same with White People in 64 in Anch; not just a backward Indian thing.
Don't want to see no more either; that was the shaker to remember in my life. The roads are still all fouled up out that way from that earthquake too.
>>You mentioned the “why” the port moved inland but you didn’t mention “how”. Someone was wise enough to dig a 50 mile (aprox) long ship channel so Houston could become a port. <<
That is an excellent point. Back then, people had vision and the cajones to make the vision reality.
Nowadays, everything is incremental.
I lived in Yokohama in the 50s as an Army Brat and remember the big quakes. Sometimes the feeling was a gentle sway back and forth and once in a while a big up and down hammer would roll through.
One afternoon I’d gotten off the street car near our house when the ground rippled hard enough to bounce the street car off its tracks. About an hour later, a Izu wrecker truck appeared and the crew got the car back on tracks.
The Houston Ship channel was certainly visionary and no small challenge but the way Galveston pulled it’s self up by it’s bootstraps I find even more amazing. Do you know the history of Galveston after the 1900 storm?
>>Do you know the history of Galveston after the 1900 storm?<<
Not much — I have kinfolk in Houston so I only know their handed-down stories (the usual local COC stuff) and what I have been able to ascertain using my Google-fu.
From what I understand, Galveston is a close #2 to South Padre Island in sun-seeking tourism.
I took an LST up the Columbia for the Rose Festival in 1989. Good liberty but I wouldn’t want to do that sea detail on a regular basis.
Yah. It’s a mother of a special sea detail. Five, maybe six hours depending how fast you run it.
In fact... that’s why I bargained (read: begged) for a trip up the river with the Columbia River Pilots. I was a QM, and I wanted to see how they did it and get some pointers. And wow... I wasn’t disappointed. Those guys are shiphandling gods. I’m pretty sure the pilot could’ve had that car-carrier dancing to Swan Lake if he wanted.
Hey wait... 89? I think that was one of the years we went up to the Rose fest. I’ll bet we were both there. Small world.
My grandfather was a young carpenter who had just moved to Galveston from north Texas to work. He got work but not what he expected. He was one of the men who had to gather the dead bodies, between 6000 and 10,000 drowned and burn them on the beach.
After he was released from that he moved to Houston and built houses in Houstons newest subdivision, the Houston Heights. Look for a book called Issac's Storm, it was like hearing my grandfather tell his stories all over again. It was chilling.
>>He was one of the men who had to gather the dead bodies, between 6000 and 10,000 drowned and burn them on the beach.<<
YIKES!! That no doubt haunted him for the rest of his days.
>>Look for a book called Issac’s Storm, it was like hearing my grandfather tell his stories all over again. It was chilling.<<
I will — or should I? I suspect it is riveting but disturbing, based on your summary of your Grandfather’s account...
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