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Topics => General Board => Topic started by: BigAlSouth on March 12, 2011, 08:35:43 AM
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First, Google Map (satellite) the Santa Cruz, California Harbor area to acquaint yourself with the land mass and shape of the shoreline. Then you will see what happens when a very narrow channel, in the middle of a huge crescent shaped beach, will do the a harbor. Look at the channel markers and the speed of the water rushing by.
Santa Cruz Harbor Tsunami 3/11/11 jeejuh.com beats for sale (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gowsVzdl0Ks#)
Check out 2:12 in the video. Like watching a train wreck.
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Unbelievably, a tsunami hit the same area about a year ago, February 27, 2010:
A tsunami visits Santa Cruz Harbor, 2/27/2010 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUyuXPVcw58#ws)
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Looks like that area of coastline is a bight, so it probably has a wide tidal range even on a normal day. The coast of Georgia is like that, on a bigger scale. If you look at the coast of FL to the south and NC/SC to the north, they funnel the tides towards GA. That place would be annihilated by an East Coast tsunami.
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Tsunami Slams West Coast 4500 Miles Away, Powerful Images 3/11/2011 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FizI7iv-pg#noexternalembed-ws)
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IIRC there was warning this tidal surge was coming. The video shows it to be well past daybreak; WTF didn't they go take their boats out of the channel? Did they stay home sipping a Latte saying, "it's insured"?
California, right?
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IIRC there was warning this tidal surge was coming. The video shows it to be well past daybreak; WTF didn't they go take their boats out of the channel? Did they stay home sipping a Latte saying, "it's insured"?
California, right?
That's a question I was wondering about myself. My boat isn't a fraction as expensive as some of those getting tossed about. It's just an old 20' fish-n-ski bass boat. But I would never leave it open to the elements if there was a credible damaging weather threat that my side-bumpers might not handle. If we're on vacation and I'm renting a slip or dock, I'm always checking the weather to make sure there's not going to be high winds moving in at night. If there are, then I trailer the boat, it's that simple. It's a hassle to land it when I otherwise wouldn't, but not THAT big of a hassle that I'd willingly sleep through it getting crashed against the dock all night.
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Exactly, most of them looked too big to trailer, all they had to do was take their boat out into the bay. As I understand it the 500mph is energy that is subsurface and the tidal surge comes from the increasing shallow water, coves and channels focusing/collecting the energy at one spot.
If one was a mile out he may not know the surge had passed under him.
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Exactly, most of them looked too big to trailer, all they had to do was take their boat out into the bay. As I understand it the 500mph is energy that is subsurface and the tidal surge comes from the increasing shallow water, coves and channels focusing/collecting the energy at one spot.
If one was a mile out he may not know the surge had passed under him.
That's my understanding too... although before I bet my life on it, I might check it out just to make sure!
::praying::
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IIRC there was warning this tidal surge was coming. The video shows it to be well past daybreak; WTF didn't they go take their boats out of the channel? Did they stay home sipping a Latte saying, "it's insured"?
California, right?
Hells Bells, they had one just last year. It is not like this was some huge surprise.