Tsunami?

[Lil' Snowy Plover]

Everyone okay?

[the dude]

Bare beach is shown as the water recedes before a tsunami surge in Seaside, Ore., Friday, March, 11, 2011. The tsunami traveled across the Pacific Ocean after an 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck the east coast of Japan. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

[Tex]

Who saw the two people walking along the beach at Seaside around 7:30???? wow!

Back in 94 I was living in Manzanita and we had a tsunami warning. The sirens started going off. I remember this lady flying down the road with her kids in the car and she was in such a hurry she had left a backpack and shoes on top of the car.

My buddy decided to go for a surf out front...tide went SUPER LOW....never seen it that far out since. I headed up the mountain. Nothing happened that day either.

[the dude]

A whole lot of farmland destroyed. There was a lot to see in broadcast last night. People desperately attempting to put fires out, lines of cars fleeing from the surge a water, cars getting trapped in between water as the surge poured in and around buildings and roads, empty boats pouring inland, people just standing there watching in shock, thousands of floating cars, birds flying around like nothing happened... Didnt see or hear much about fatalities, though. Parts of this surprised me because the wall of water didnt appear to be very high, may be a few to several feet, but the color, the debris it was carrying and the power it continued to pour inland with was something else.

[Doc]

Many, many deaths...
Will continue to rise...
And likely many people...
Will never be found.

Doc

[Gazsurf]

Isn't this Erzats field of work? Looks brutal and cold, can't imagine 4,000,000 people w/o power in winter...... daaamn. Food is going to become an issue, at least the distribution of it.

[the dude]

i gotta point out the glimpses of rights and lefts being shown on CNN. Theres one video of a 30-40 trawler plowing bow ahead into a series of waves, the trawler takes quite a hit, but appears to make it just fine. But man what a right! Offshore too!

[Wilbur Kookmeyer]

Got this email earlier today....

According to emergency personnel and a couple of fishermen, Crescent City has 30+ boats sinking or upside down. The next surge is expected to reach into the City streets. Humboldt Bay is sucking out right now. Can’t get down there to see damages. 101 closed all over the place. Ocean has breached the highways. Most all of our fishing vessels got out of Crescent City and are sitting off shore but it sounds like there will be nothing to come back to.

Kind of a harrowing situation down that way.

I sure hope our people and friends make it through okay.

[Quad Head]

Mild compared to Japans situation.

Still looks like the fishermen are gettting worked in Crusty: http://www.kgw.com/video/featured-videos/Raw-video-Tsunami-destroys-Crescent-City-docks-117827264.html

Buddy in Santa Cruz said the same thing happened in the Harbor. But business as usual in the lineups despite the weird tidal fluctuations.

[the dude]

On the central coast in Santa Cruz, loose fishing boats crashed into one another and docks broke away from the shore. The water rushed out as quickly as it poured in, leaving the boats tipped over in mud.

Some surfers ignored evacuation warnings before they were lifted and took advantage of the waves ahead of the tsunami.

"The tides are right, the swell is good, the weather is good, the tsunami is there," said William Hill, an off-duty California trooper. "We're going out."

[erzats]

Who said there wasn't much impact here. Check out tippy's blog post:

http://karmicvoyager.blogspot.com/

Here's something I sent to a few people earlier:

Just for science-y fun I grabbed the tide gauge data from ~300 miles off of Astoria and filtered and plotted it. See attached.



The plot is feet of tide anomaly versus time (I filtered out the normal tide signal) and you can see that the biggest anomaly is around 9 this morning. But, as we surfers know, the long period waves have the most energy. In the case of this tsunami the period increased as time wore on. So, around when tippy was on the beach a couple of really long period pulses came through. The plot is open ocean height. These waves grow a lot when they near coastlines, so even though the open ocean wave height (crest to trough) was only about a foot, the actual height swing was closer to a full tide range when it hit shore in Newport and elsewhere as chief scientist tippy observed in Newport. Next time you are marveling at the power of 16 second period surf, think about how that compares to 1800 second period surf...

Glad everyone's alright in Oregon. Wish we could say the same for Japan.

[the dude]

1800 second period surf...

[Gazsurf]

1800 second period surf...

Math don't fail me now......... daaamn that be 30 minutes!!!!

[Tatonka]

Sad...

http://www.katu.com/news/local/117861649.html

[Spider]

my favorite place got hit pretty hard:
one house and a car swept into the bay, 6 or 7 others destroyed.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHeidimck ... HK4fK55SJM