Hi
Just thought I would pass on warning of potential marine tsunmai threat for Aus swaylockians....news broadcasts in sydney are saying to expect strong currents and water movement around sunday 8:30 a.m. local sydney time. TV Broadcast is saying unlikely tidal land inunduntation just potentially difficult water conditions. Our thoughts go to those who live in Conception/Santiago Chile
CURRENT TSUNAMI WARNING - PACIFIC OCEAN
More Information about Tsunami warnings for Eastern Australia here -
http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/index.shtml
This warning is for the entire Pacific basin. A potentially serious situation.
sounds to me like more than “potentially” serious. One NOAA wave gauge already listed a wave almost 8 feet high, with an 88 minute period!
TALCAHUANO CL 36.7S 73.4W 0653Z 2.34M / 7.7FT 88MIN **Yet another statement from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii has been released saying, "Sea-level readings confirm that a tsunami has been generated which could cause widespread damage."**
Yeah, I inserted ''potentially'' as an afterthought, don't want to be accused of overstating the case. But that bouy data is frightening.
incoming tide today will be epic.
arrival on kauai is 11:30
we should hear tahiti and tuamotu and marquesas
earlier…easter island should already be inundated and subsided
anybody know where to get this information?
the TV has been going nonstop since 1:30 am
but nobody has said anyting about Rapa Nui… howzat?
…ambrose…
hard evidence is food
for rational thought to
formulate realistic expectations.
bbc report 5 minutes ago:
"People in the Galapagos and on Easter Island have already taken
refuge.
Large waves are already reported to have
struck Chile’s Juan Fernandez island group, reaching halfway into one
inhabited area. Three people there are missing, local media say. Two aid
ships are reported to be on their way…
It has been difficult to estimate the possible wave heights of any
tsunami - the waves may not arrive at all or could be as high as 10
metres above normal sea level."
Ambrose , You are welcome to come on up and sleep on my shop work bench if need be !!! Make sure to evacuate your pick of the litter SUP boards and surfboards. Warning sirens going continuesly now. We are ready ! Good luck! Hope for nothing ! Ready for anything!! Kokua don't forget clean underware !!! Ahue Hou - Wood_Ogre
Good luck to all you guys in the way of that Tsunami,hope it doesn't cause too much damage,thinking of you
We've been getting reports of small tidal surges around the NZ coastline, up to a metre. A couple of low lying areas have been evacuated, but nothing serious so far.
Howzit Wood_Ogre, I am up in Pville nd if it the tsunami hits my place then we are all in trouble. Luckally it was not that big and nobody got hurt, I'm sure us Islanders were all watching the news at the time it hit and seems like Kahalui harbor was the biggest spot. I won't be living in a beach front house til mid April. Aloha,Kokua
Howzit Kokua!
glad to here my beloved Kauai was spared the wrath of mother nature
You mentioned small surges,,,, I know Robin's place is at sea level in Honalei
Any problems there? and Ambrose is only about 150 yards from the east side
Everybody ok?
from what I hear Hawaii fared pretty well. Some people lost to waves in islands off the coast of Chile and damage in the marquesas and other places but this tsunami could have been LOTS worse… good news for the most part.
I went down to the ocean to watch. Police had closed the beach. I watched huge rip currents form and the swell kind of flatten out. I couldn’t say it was from the tsunami as we were also moving from over 6 foot high tide to a negative 0.9. Maybe a combination of both? Keith’s correct, could have been much worse. Mike
february 28 2010
tsunami paper
central information desk
tsumami intimidation
was how I answered the phone after the twentifip call
woke up at one thirty a.m.
to keahi tucker and the khnl news
and was glued to the info link.
fell asleep at about three under duress
Ist call was at 4 a.m. ben ferris concerned for my being informed.
talked for fourty minutes calming his concerns as we are out of the
running screaming for the hills zone .
The Tsunami danger lurks in the bays and
coves with great submarine canyons.
being in close proximity to the beach
does;nt guarantee a prize.
woke the house at close to five
as I left to buy my bi weekly tank o’gas
not quite full as themoney from
fin I sold the day before
had to last…
the gas station was social study
in order and duress got there before
the lines spilled onto the highway and
there was still 200 gallons of gas.
my experienc with Tsunami mania has
tempered my reaction . You can only
turn on adreanally when
the actual measurable event occurs.
getting ‘Jacked’ prematurely leaves you
exausted and less able
to do the real work of survival and of course
salvage and cleanup.
went to work opening the jalosie windos in my clear story
in the roof as I planned to watch the ocean
from thirtyfive feet above ground
answering calls from concerned
was consuming but easier because
my dear wife marta does good phone.
all the planers up off the ground
except the sixty pound on I left on the floor.
easter island ifigured was gonna be the first
to see measurable effect so i waited to hear
then I thought of Juan fenandez island
also made famous by ol’selkirk the robinson crusoe
and the repport , un substantiated ,of a 140 foot wave
was a concern until the report from rikitea of 50 to 80 centimeters
an hour later.after that it was a waiting exercise for the next hours.
the arrival was plotted for 10:30 a.m. at the big island.
the camera poised on the hill trained on hilo bay was a dream come true.
with th information gleaned from that view the subsequent rational decision would be
at hand.We ate exoguacamole and lettuce and chips while interpreting the view to
friends on the mountain tops .
AND so it was.
I dint walque down to the beach but once at seven thirty.
I got gas
I went to th crowded manic safe way and food land
got eggs and butter.The day was clear and sunny most of the day.
when the wold was evacuated my neighborhood was so quiet
you could hear my television news 200 feet away in my tool shed.
I even could hear my whistle echo off the foodland building’s empty…
Yes I thought of harry truman the guy that lived at mount st.Helens
whe she blew.but this tsunami warning full alert and evacuation
of 2010 was not my curtain call and nope the sand bars
havn’t been appraised yet but
it is my first order of business today.
after of course a moment of silence for the
people of chile and juan fernandaz
and all the unknown to me
suffering and past over.
it is not a leap year.
tomorrow is march
and a real tsunami
could be here tomorrow
and I had a great nap
yesterday afternoon.
by three o’clock
the ambient noise on kauai’s coastal plain was back.
…ambrose…
Disaster in Chile and the ensueing tsunami warning across the whole Pacific Ocean kept eyes out of a “classic” winter storm that hit France last night and left behind 45 people killed (by the latest estimates).
Looks like very high tides combined with gale force winds were responsible for sea-walls collapsing and therefore severe floodings in some places from Charente Maritime to Brittany.
Nothing bad on the Basque coast, the storm hit further north. Many powerless homes throughout the country and many trees fallen, once again.
Howzit Ken, No problems in Hanalei due to small tidal surges. Actually a friend was surfing Pine Trees all by him self through out the the episode and was riding the surges in and out, had the place all to his self. It's like the media said" Hawaii dodged a bullet ". Aloha,Kokua
Kokua, Your friend had pine trees all to himself !! Good for him, he got lucky ,hes still alive!!! He really must be stupid!! Some times stupid people stay alive just because of luck!! Some times stupid people die because they are stupid!!!