I heard something on TV about 8 ft. waves. Big deal. Everyone's in a panic about Hawaii also.

Crescent City Oregon is at high risk because of the shape of its shoreline. It will tend to focus the wave energy into a concentrated area. They are calling for a 3 foot wall of water to hit the west coast soon. I'm sure live cams will show all as it happens. However significant or insignificant.

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Originally posted by Seanny I heard something on TV about 8 ft. waves. Big deal. Everyone's in a panic about Hawaii also.

I think an 8' tsunami is much different than an 8' wave. instead of breaker, think sea level suddenly rising by 8'

That's a very good way to look at it. It's more of a wall than a wave. I can see how that would cause a good bit of damage, especially depending on the geography of the affected areas... Still doubtful about the scale of the evacuation, though.

Tide elevated maybe 6-10 inches here in Newport. Still no "All Clear". Probably won't hear that till closer to 11:00 am PST. The Coastal Towns here on the Oregon coast take this thing rather serious. Fire Depts were out in areas with no Tsunami sirens waking people up at 4am this morning alerting them. I would rather have people overly prepared then not at all.

Was still kind of fun watching the lines at the gas stations this morning, and watching the Wal-mart parking lot turn in to a RV park. 100's of motor homes!

Kami, again glad to hear you and yours are ok.

Vacationing in Seaside. First day off and still got woken up at 0400. I am with CSA on this though. Better to be woken up by an alarm than a wall of water busting through the glass. Turned out to be a non-event here in Seaside. The tsunami almost made it to the high tide line from last night. Would have made a good boogie boarding wave. It was weird to watch the ocean go out waiting for a big one to come in. One guy was just standing there for a while. Once the water went out so far he got the idea and left the beach lately. Weird feeling to be standing at the top of a resort waiting for the big wave/surge to come in like the news has shown in the past. I am happy to report that everything looks good in Seaside. Now to do some buggying!!

Santa Cruz Harbor took a bit of a beating because of the shape of the harbor inlet. Several boats broke free. Nothing I'd consider *major* damage. I think I've seen worse damage from a thunderstorm. Crescent City took a hard set. Their harbor lost a wood on most docks. Again, nothing major. Still no all clear.

The Nuclear reactor in Japan has issued an emergency over the core overheating and the cooling rod system failed to deploy. That could get real interesting.

Thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Japan.

Hoping for continued "OK" ness after that last massive aftershock.

Best hopes for the entire country.

Albatross Mark, how are things Hawaii side??

So, to report back about Santa Cruz

The surges got much worse after I reported earlier. The damage grew to about 40 boats, mostly small craft destroyed or sunk.

One complete doc pretty much imploded under the pressure from the water entering the harbor. Santa Cruz harbor usually has very calm water. Sometimes it's hard to detect movement in the water. At the height of some of the surges, it would go from 'high tide' to the lowest of low tides the locals had ever seen, in a span of 10 minutes.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef014e86a...

http://cbssanfran.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/tsunami-damage...

http://www.mysanantonio.com/mediaManager/?controllerName=ima...

Pretty impressive.

Again - this is all just a minor scrape compared to the devastation in Japan.

Good to hear your alright Kami....hope they can get power back to the reactors soon, so they don't go three mile island on everybody

Thanks all!

Don't think of a tsunami as a wave, the peak of which passes and is gone, but think of it as a fricken' freight train ploughing head-first into the beach and it just doesn't stop, all that mass behind the engine just keeps driving it forwards.

The chaos is very localized here, that one spot in Sendai is messed up ...

I think Mark is on holiday in the US - he asked me to send the Syn19 to Fort Bragg ...

There is unspeakable devastation in Japan. My dad's company's main fabricator is in the heart of Sendai, and he's good friends with many of the people who work there. My heart goes out to them. The footage is incredible... Obama made a pretty lame speech about all of this, but I sincerely hope the government of the United States uses any resources available to aid the people of Japan. This isn't Pakistan, it's our closest ally. From what I can see, it looks like the Navy is doing a great job of providing relief there. Keep it up!

Very glad to hear your OK Kami :singing: now just don't start glowing.

I owe a big thank you to this forum. We ended up getting evacuated at 3:30 this morning but because I checked PKF we were ready to go. Turned what could have been a panicked rush into "Ok the cops are outside, lets go." We stayed in the Bi-mart parking lot (one of the assembly areas) BSing on the CB radio until we finely got the all-clear to return to our house at about 11:00.

On a side note Florence also only has one 24HR gas station, the vampires decided to raise gas to $5 a gallon until the next station opened up at 7:00. Needless to say I'm going to remember that next time they are 2 cents cheaper.

Willard, turn them in to the Oregon AG. Price gouging during an Emergency is ILLEGAL! in Oregon. They will get nailed with criminal charges, and possibly with civil suits. If you know of anyone who bought gas there and paid with a debit/credit card there's your proof!

Yeah, the nuclear genie is making my sphincter twitch but we should be good - offshore breezes predicted for a while yet ... oh watch out Seattle :o

And now for the lolz ... Auntie Janet who I haven't seen or heard from in like 25 years - I don't even know her last name - got a reporter to track me down on Facebook

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Originally posted by Kamikuza I think Mark is on holiday in the US - he asked me to send the Syn19 to Fort Bragg ...

Funny, I don't there are any holidays at Fort Bragg. I hope he isn't going to try to use it to jump out of a plane.

Glad you are ok over there!

Glad you are OK Kami. Hope those power plant reactors cool down and there are no radiation leaks.

Mark does as Mark pleases

If seanny really wanted to know the power of a 'wave.... look at crystal beach during hurricane Ike. It was not the wind that cleared the land on the Texas coast... but the waves.

... not that a hundred mile s inland a hurricand affected me any.... You do not have to be at ground zero to have your world turned upside down.. but if you do, it sucks.

I'm beginning to think that the old name of 'tidal wave' that fell out of disuse when I was a kid is more appropriate than tsunami - strong wave ... say the tsunami is 1m tall - that's not a wave of 1m tall that passes like on the beach but it's more like the tide rising by 1m ...
The 'wave' that hit Sendai coast up there was 10m ... so a 10m rise in tide and the weight of the ocean behind it, pushing it over the land. Fcuk me.

Exactly!

Hurricanes, earthquakes or tsunamis suck when they affect you personally. I say this from personal experience on at least one of the three.

Seanny, look what a couple meter wave did to the town of Crystal Beach , Tx. It was not he hurricane force winds.. but the water that did the bulk of the damage. Water is like a bulldozer...... there is no stopping it.

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Originally posted by Kamikuza Seems the tsunami was real localized - everywhere else seems to have gotten off with nothing but a mountain of hyperbole and paranoia from CNN ... seriously, WTF is with blowing it all out of proportion?

I wonder why they do it. News... media... I guess there is a reason for it...

Hurricame Rita caused huge unwarranted grid lock to Houston...yet to the residents of Holly Beach Luoiisanna.... Devastation is sure to occur. If you get advanced notice, count yourself lucky.... even if it is off by a few hundred miles. natural disaststers suck... but if your in a area and get a notice... it's better to to take notice than get slammed. i live a hundred miles inland and had my house cut in pieces by a huricane. A tsunami would do even more damage. I feel for these people. Natural disasters suck.

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Originally posted by solaris Quote: Originally posted by Kamikuza Seems the tsunami was real localized - everywhere else seems to have gotten off with nothing but a mountain of hyperbole and paranoia from CNN ... seriously, WTF is with blowing it all out of proportion? I wonder why they do it. News... media... I guess there is a reason for it...

Money - people will tune in if they're scared.

Fear runs our news companies and our government. We are afraid of anything they tell us to be afraid of. Oil shortages, Earthquakes, floods, other countries, We are all created equal unless you look or sound differant than us. It's all Bull #@%$#!. Lend a hand, be a friend, overcome fear. It's our world to barrow. Lets do it right.