Television and radio news has been spotty and not very thorough. What's the word on the cities by the bays? Any video? The litte footage of my favorite town (SC) and the Small Craft Harbor made me think of the "Earthquake". Any word?
Aloha Mc Ding, Today on the news they said there has been over 100 aftershocks that I belive were over 6.0 and then they showed the harbor or marina in SC as the wave was hitting there. Looked like it had some size to it and boats were going all over the place and it really did some damage. Aloha.Koua
Salmon and rockfish etc. have been crap for several years up there. No more sawmills. Gettin' as bad as Oregon. I think they were in the middle of Dungeness Crab. Some of the boats were Monterey Double-enders built in the sixties.
I’m worried about Crescent City. I’ve seen lots of SC footage but only some bad video from Del Norte county
Man! It's still happening!?!?! Was in the harbor yesterday helping a buddy straighten up and work some dings. We fininshed up for the day and were having a couple of brews (Sierra Nevada, Chico, Ca.) when it starts up again!! We notice the water line begin to drop slowly and subtilely and look at each other thinking STILL??? This was late afternoon and around the corner a dock and boat were swamped and the boat sunk still tied up. Water is the roughest wildest POWER on earth....can't stop it. UNBELIEVABLE!!!
I’d say we were pretty damn lucky on this side of the Pacific. Watching the large vessels get stuffed under the overpass is pretty much all the testimony you need to the power of the thing:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12725646
Hey M'Ding Howzit? Here in Ventura it was more of a tidal "bore" than a tidal "wave" situation. I watched over a period of 4 to 5 hrs. and saw the tide line draw out and come back in. Each cycle took about 1/2 an hour or more. I watched this happen at least four times. Low tide was at 8:13 am yesterday and that is about the time it started to show. With a mild spring tide the natural fill in was very gradual. About 9 am. I saw some offshore reefs start to shoal and then break, that's when I first noticed the tide receding about 4 feet. (Vertical). The "bore" would arrive about 15 to 20 minutes later. Mostly a mixing of some fairly strong currents. There was some small damage in the harbor to docked vessels banging against each other and the slips. Just before 7:30 am. there was a parade of the more expensive boats out of both Vta. and Channel Islands harbors. Hueneme stated they had no ships at berth at the time. Thank God for south facing beaches, north of Conception got more action but no trouble in Avila or Diablo Cyn (Gracias a Dios!).
Howzit McDing, I heard that a Marina in Cresent city got hit pretty bad and then went to work and that was the last thing I heard. Aloha Kokua
my friends...in sc...said a bunch boats got messed up in the harbor...
and surfed their brains out!
my wife's uncle in eva beach..said no big ting..
my big sister said second cousins in kumamoto(southern japan)
are okay
end-o-report...
it's 39 degrees in florida...dang
I surfed the east side Santa Cruz (da hook) on Saturday and it was pretty good. The harbor is on the west side and it’s a bit more exposed than the east side. I looked at the swell for this whole week and it looks like it’s going to get big on Friday and Saturday. Around 19’ they say, That’s 10’ Hawaii size. My friends are over in Humboldt County, about 2 hours south of Cresent City and I haven’t heard anything from them about it being bad. Humboldt Bay is pretty wide open to Tsunamis too.
Hope everyone’s safe.