Tsunami Watch Southern California: Would you evacuate?

Black Swan

I'm at this moment sitting in Newport Beach Harbour at sea level on a boat on the Southern California coast. We've been asked to evacuate to higher ground by the Coast Guard, but a few of us have refused. If there is a freak wave, it is estimated to arrive at 8:45 AM PST, which is less than a half hour away.

We've battened down our hatches, slackened our lines, have tested the pumps, and will have the auxiliary diesel running at the appointed hour.

Blast, we forgot the rum! "Why is there never any rum?"

Would you evacuate to higher ground if you were us, or stay onboard for the after wave party?

Glassheart

Newport Beach is nice and all but i'd get the **** out of there...

Mister men

Nice knowing ya

bullpost

That's a lot of trouble to go to for a memorable 10,000th post?

Mint Sauce

I would probably head to higher ground, however the BBC have just reported it passing through Hawawi with waves only as high as 1.5 metres. Reakon alot of the Tsunami has lost its power.

podgemonster

Sure its only the Coast Guard, what do they know? Rushing around warning people and saving lives :rolleyes:

Black Swan

We are waiting on the BIG ONE! Who says SIZE doesn't matter?

sunflower27

Black Swan wrote: »

We are waiting on the BIG ONE! Who says SIZE doesn't matter?

Your next post is the BIG ONE - 10,000.

I personally would be nowhere near the beach.

Penn

Black Swan wrote: »

We are waiting on the BIG ONE! Who says SIZE doesn't matter?

Mam?

Black Swan

Cheers Ireland. Raises Guinness and TOASTS ye'all 10,000 kms away to the east. Less than 9 minutes to go. Got to go topside for the MAIN EVENT.

Waves (hand...ha!).

Stay if you want, but remember others may have to put their life on the line for you and your friends. If one of them lost their life saving yours because you were reckless, could you live with that?
If you could, then I guess , you will stay.

Archeron

If the coast guard wasnt running towards you in slow motion, then there is no real threat.

GerM

Black Swan wrote: »

I'm at this moment sitting in Newport Beach Harbour at sea level on a boat on the Southern California coast. We've been asked to evacuate to higher ground by the Coast Guard, but a few of us have refused. If there is a freak wave, it is estimated to arrive at 8:45 AM PST, which is less than a half hour away.

We've battened down our hatches, slackened our lines, have tested the pumps, and will have the auxiliary diesel running at the appointed hour.

Blast, we forgot the rum! "Why is there never any rum?"

Would you evacuate to higher ground if you were us, or stay onboard for the after wave party?

That is pretty goddamn dense in the extreme. Chances are the wave will be minor with little enough damage but why on earth take that chance when there's an official request from authorities to evacuate?

Mister men

GerM wrote: »

That is pretty goddamn dense in the extreme. Chances are the wave will be minor with little enough damage but why on earth take that chance when there's an official request from authorities to evacuate?

Because people are at their most basic are as thick as ****.

Black Swan

Tsunami watch extended to 8:45AM PST... so still waiting for the BIG ONE until then. Restarting the count down. About 13 minutes until the watch expires.

DoesNotCompute

So.... you still there, Black Swan???

Cool_CM

GerM wrote: »

why on earth take that chance when there's an official request from authorities to evacuate?

(Insert Charlie Sheen meme about winning here)

darragh16

Ah you'll be grand, maybe get a bit wet. But if I were you I'd go surf the waves.

Daegerty

I wouldn't wait for the fooking tsunami before i'd get the hell out of that place. I'd say a tsunami would be the best thing that could ever happen the place short of a nuclear bomb

bullpost

And you managed an unrelated mention of 10,000 in your 10,000th. post.

Well done you.

Still there?

bullpost wrote: »

That's a lot of trouble to go to for a memorable 10,000th post?

tricky D

Your best bet was to head out to sea. Too late. I'd do more than just slacken the lines a bit. Hope you've enough fenders.

Duiske

irish-stew wrote: »

I would probably head to higher ground, however the BBC have just reported it passing through Hawawi with waves only as high as 1.5 metres. Reakon alot of the Tsunami has lost its power.

If you were standing on a beach watching a 1.5 metre Tsunami coming at you, its probably the last thing you will ever see. People tend to think of these waves as similar to what you would see on a surfing program on TV, but a 1.5 metre Tsunami wave could stretch up to 2km back out to sea. It's a wall of water that can keep pouring onto land for ages. The back of the wave keeps pushing in, pushing debris foward, and it's this debris that causes the damage and deaths.

Unless i was sure that the wave height was not more than a few inches , i would not be hanging around a coastal area that was under Tsunami alert.

Chairman Meow

Southern California hit by tsunami






and nothing of value was lost

Mr.Crinklewood

Some people are thick. Some people are ignorant. People who do not listen to advice are both.

GerM

I'll admit it, there's part of me that hopes the OP gets a good bloody scare out of this (as long as nobody is hurt or damage occurs). Needs some sense knocked into them.

Canis Lupus

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Some people are thick. Some people are ignorant. People who do not listen to advice are both.

Or some people just want to do their own thing. He's a grown up, let him at it.

Black Swan

DoesNotCompute wrote: »

So.... you still there, Black Swan???

Extended watch ends in 5 minutes. Then it's all over folks... The watch that is.

tricky D

Duiske wrote: »

If you were standing on a beach watching a 1.5 metre Tsunami coming at you, its probably the last thing you will ever see. People tend to think of these waves as similar to what you would see on a surfing program on TV, but a 1.5 metre Tsunami wave could stretch up to 2km back out to sea. It's a wall of water that can keep pouring onto land for ages. The back of the wave keeps pushing in, pushing debris foward, and it's this debris that causes the damage and deaths.

Unless i was sure that the wave height was not more than a few inches , i would not be hanging around a coastal area that was under Tsunami alert.

Yup, it's a surge much more than a wave. There's a bunch of eejits up at Santa Monica waiting to surf the 'wave'. They would be in for a big surprise if the surge is more than a foot or three.

GerM

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Or some people just want to do their own thing. He's a grown up, let him at it.

Which can impact on others by forcing them to put their personal safety at risk?

simonw

Watch it live (ish)

http://www.nhyc.org/default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=264881&ssid=130900&vnf=1

edit: nuts, they don't seem to update the pics very often...

DoesNotCompute

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/livenow?id=8007008

Mr.Crinklewood

GerM wrote: »

Which can impact on others by forcing them to put their personal safety at risk?

Beat me to it. At least Canis is not ignorant.

OP could well be arrested when he comes back into shore.

Canis Lupus

GerM wrote: »

Which can impact on others by forcing them to put their personal safety at risk?

Relax yourself, nothing is going to happen.

tricky D

also

http://www.pacpark.com/webcam.php?location=webcam

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/livenow?id=8007008

GerM

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Relax yourself, nothing is going to happen.

Ah yeah. Sure not like anything significant has occurred elsewhere due to this.

In fairness, the likelihood is bugger all will happen. But why act like a fool to get some kicks and force others to deal with the consequences? Even if it is a couple of feet high, small vessels could be knocked about, people sent overboard and the CG will have to waste time fishing dumbasses out. Reeks of selfishness and immaturity.

tricky D

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Relax yourself, nothing is going to happen.

Never does until a few minutes before the rescue services get called. Never happens around my neighbourhood over 2 dozen times a year.

Pyr0

Spot the idiot in the thread.

Black Swan

Tsunami watch expired. Current conditions Newport Beach, California:

14°C
Current: Sunny blue sky with a few clouds
Wind: N at 2 mph
Humidity: 78%
Swell: 1.5ft @ 16secs

Whoa, is 9AM on a Friday too early to start partying?

ejmaztec

Black Swan wrote: »

Would you evacuate to higher ground if you were us, or stay onboard for the after wave party?

I'm not fussy where I evacuate my bowels, high ground or low ground, it's all the same to me.

Black Swan

Jake1 wrote: »

OP could well be arrested when he comes back into shore.

Not a chance. Guard just floated by. Our sound system was blasting a bit too loud for the few Tsunami survivors in Newport Beach Harbour. We passed a 6-pack of chilled soft drinks to them. Guess they wanted to check out the bikinis, ha!

Lots of helicopters buzzing about. TV news, Guard, even tourists.

Yurt

I just rung my Japanese friend to make sure he was okay after the Tsunami and all he did was go on about his social life.

Just kept going on and on about a huge rave

Manic Moran

I'm about two miles from Coast Guard Island. Their cutters here are the size of destroyers in most navies, and their masts haven't moved.

Then again, here in the San Francisco Bay, it'd take a hell of a wave to cause too much angst.

NTM

tricky D

From the TV, it looks like a bit of a non-event except for a few boats escaping moorings and some other debris where there was a drain and surge of about 2 feet. ABC7 said Long Beach marina for the surge, but the pics of unmoored boats didn't match.

Black Swan

Manic Moran wrote: »

Then again, here in the San Francisco Bay, it'd take a hell of a wave to cause too much angst.

Hi John Wayne! So you didn't get washed away up north by the BIG ONE?




(You keeping your six-shooters well oiled? Too bad you didn't get the part to star in the remake of True Grit. I can see you riding about in a tank rather than on a horse, ha! Show them pesky outlaws at high noon! BOOM!).

Manic Moran

From a few miles up the coast, from CNN.

Sailing vessels were knocked loose from their moorings at a marina in Santra Cruz, California. Several were swamped

Not sure what Newport Beach marina is like, but Santa Cruz actually doesn't have a huge amount of protection.

NTM

Overheal

CNN was suggesting the change to low-tide affected the West Coast's Tsunami conditions. Saved your keisters.

This will of course play into a wild conspiracy theory that america used a nuke to trigger the earthquake, causing damage to our rivals and leaving us conveniently unscathed, free to run around giving aid like Team America.

And I might be crazy, but there are crazier people out there. And if I thought of it, you can bet they already wrote a book about it.

Stercus Accidit

I'm in so cal, am I safe then? (stays in bed)

Black Swan

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

I'm in so cal, am I safe then? (stays in bed)

You're never safe in So Cal. You could get run over by someone paying more attention to texting than driving. Plus So Cal is on the Pacific Rim of Fire, with plenty of faults and a few extinct volcanoes that could awake someday. But life is short, so why not get out of bed and enjoy it? The weekend commeth.

The So Cal news media seems a bit disappointed that BIG ONE didn't occur along our coast. They were ready with all their air cams aloft. Now all they can do is LOOK at the surface of our harbour and say something silly like... Oh... It does look a bit different then before the 8:45AM Tsunami warning. See! There is a ripple there that's new. Now that's news!

Micky Dolenz

Black Swan wrote: »

. We passed a 6-pack of chilled soft drinks to them. Guess they wanted to check out the bikinis, ha!

Pics or it's not happening.

Black Swan

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Pics or it's not happening.

Ha! No freebies! Call my agent (or show up with a Bushmills for admission to the BIG WAVE party and bring your own cam). Plus some sun block, cause it looks like today is going to be a warm one in the California sun.

Now the news choppers have cleared the air.