9/30/2009

Wooooo! SURF’S UP!

COWABUNGA,

a tsunami is coming!

(The height of “killer” tsunami wave is estimated to be all of 50cm—The epicenter is far away in American Samoa.)

The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa

Actually, the warning is already downgraded to just an advisory here in Japan.

Deadly tsunami in Pacific islands
BBC News – ‎25 minutes ago‎
A tsunami triggered by a strong quake in the South Pacific has killed at least 28 people in Samoa…

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7 Responses to “Wooooo! SURF’S UP!”

Taro Says:
September 30th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Japan issues tsunami warning along coast
(AP) —Sept 30, 3009 9:20am
TOKYO — Japan’s Meteorological Agency has issued a tsunami warning all along its eastern coast after a strong earthquake hit Samoa in the Pacific Ocean.
The agency warned Wednesday morning of a possible tsunami up to about 1.6 feet (50 centimeters) tall.
The agency warned the tsunami could hit all along Japan’s eastern coast, on an area ranging from Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido to the southern tip of Kyushu island, with the Okinawa islands to the far south also included.
The warning came after a powerful earthquake caused large tsunamis in Samoa and American Samoa, flattening villages and killing at least 34 people.
Cbass Says:
September 30th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
There was a similar alarm here in my country…9 or 10 days ago…a *HUGE* wave (1 mt) would hit the shores…i was so curious about it and I went to see it from the top of a small hill…waited during 2 whole hours and guess what….nothing happened -.-
Taro Says:
September 30th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Cbass wrote
There was a similar alarm here…a *HUGE* wave (1 mt) would hit the shores..waited during 2 whole hours and guess what….nothing happened -.-

That’s what it was like here on the Tama River….I think I saw a 1 cm tall tsunami wave coming up the river on my webcam. My house is only 4-5 km up-river from the ocean.

HOWEVER, once when I working in my university’s radio station I received a flash flood warning for the afternoon that I announced on air at 12 o’clock news. As soon as I got off work at 3pm, I packed my kayaks, beer and buddies to go to a friend’s cabin (20 meters above the river) to watch the possible flash flood in the Big Thomson Canyon. Hell, we thought that maybe we would try to surf the leading edge of the flash flood, as we had done in the past.

BUT NOoooo….We ended up being as the only rescue team on the site of 143 deaths of the Big Thomson Canyon FLOOD! The sheriff and Feds ending up deputizing my buddies and I on the spot. Then we were forced to collect and identify bodies for the three months since we physical anthropology students (we were excused from all our regular university classes).
I AIN’T EVER WANNA SEE A FLOOD AGAIN.
Coligny Says:
September 30th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Taro your english is falling appart…

And never come to Toyohashi… flash flood are a tradition here… went to goodwill this morning to check them bitch… hard drive USB-sata bridges… raining a little… spend 10 minutes inside, went out… could not see 3 meters afar. Then it stopped… but both parking exit were going strait to a 10 cm deep river instead of a road…
Taro Says:
September 30th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Coligny wrote:
Taro your english is falling appart…

As I said before, “I AIN’T EVER WANNA SEE A FLOOD AGAIN“(sic).

Coligny also wrote:
And never come to Toyohashi… flash flood are a tradition here… but both parking exit were going strait to a 10 cm deep river instead of a road…

Maybe you need an Amphicar.
Coligny Says:
October 1st, 2009 at 10:20 am
Dude… dat’ flood happened when I wuz 8 month…

And I prefer me a amphibious kubbelwagen
Taro Says:
October 1st, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Coligny wrote:
Dude… dat’ flood happened when I wuz 8 months…

Sempai desu.

And I prefer me an amphibious kubelwagen

I drive a Mexican-manufactured “VW Thing” (aka kubbelwagen) on my father’s ranch in Monterrey Mexico—It’s indestructible even after 35 years of service.