defieldsfamily 0 Posted February 27, 2010 Member ID: 5,648 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 76 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 327 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,400 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/10/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 13, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2010 We're under a Tsunami warning here as I'm sure much of coastal Australia is too. Prayers for the people of Chile. Link to comment
**Liv** 0 Posted February 27, 2010 Member ID: 3,771 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 147 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 6,621 Content Per Day: 0.34 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 39,450 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 23/10/07 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 8, 2014 Birthday: 09/04/1911 Share Posted February 27, 2010 Oh my!! I hadn't seen the news Link to comment
Ratzy 0 Posted February 27, 2010 Member ID: 5,628 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 77 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,283 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 8,095 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 30/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 22, 2012 Birthday: 26/03/1998 Share Posted February 27, 2010 Might you have to evacuate? Link to comment
defieldsfamily 0 Posted February 27, 2010 Member ID: 5,648 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 76 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 327 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,400 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/10/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 27, 2010 No...it won't get to that point here...people were advised to stay away from beaches and marinas here but it's probably only an advisory now since the waves were smaller than expected in Hawaii...only about a meter there from what I'm reading. Our waters here will no doubt rise but no huge waves..I think they were saying it would be about 0.5 meters here. Link to comment
brittanya932 0 Posted February 28, 2010 Member ID: 4,488 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 48 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 232 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 1,685 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/07/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 2, 2015 Birthday: 13/04/1995 Share Posted February 28, 2010 HI I live in nz and they have been saying theres unusual waves in hawkes bay thenats where i live We were going to go to the beach today lucky my grandad told us! Link to comment
lochlan 0 Posted February 28, 2010 Member ID: 4,650 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 0 Topics Per Day: 0 Content Count: 50 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 265 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/09/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 10, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 I wonder if the authorities remember the boy who cried wolf !!! Warnings for everything and everytime NOTHING Happens !!! Link to comment
defieldsfamily 0 Posted February 28, 2010 Member ID: 5,648 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 76 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 327 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,400 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/10/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 28, 2010 I wonder if the authorities remember the boy who cried wolf !!! Warnings for everything and everytime NOTHING Happens !!! It's better to be safe than sorry. And I don't think it's quite accurate to say "nothing happened"...just ask the people of Chile...I doubt they'd think of the loss of over 400 people as "nothing" Link to comment
JimmyBanks 0 Posted February 28, 2010 Member ID: 4,130 Group: Site Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 112 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 4,370 Content Per Day: 0.76 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 25,112 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/03/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 1, 2015 Birthday: 12/02/1982 Share Posted February 28, 2010 (edited) I was in Samoa when the Earthquake/Tsunami hit, not a nice experience. Thank goodness the most that happened here was nothing like that. Yes, it can be very tedious when you have warning after warning (which Pacific Islands have due to the vast expance that is the Pacific Ocean) but I also assure you something does happen sometimes. The problem is at this stage Scientist's can not accurately determine how big the waves will be... The Tsunami in Samoa was devistating. I would not wish that on anybody. To ignore the Tsunami warnings is to tempt fate... Before I experienced the Tsunami I, like lochlan, thought that nothing ever happens... I wish that were the case. Edited February 28, 2010 by JimmyBanks Link to comment
defieldsfamily 0 Posted February 28, 2010 Member ID: 5,648 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 76 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 327 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 2,400 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/10/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 28, 2010 You are right JimmyBanks...I guess unless you've seen what a tsunami can do locally then people just don't get it. A town on the island I live on was devastated by a tsunami from an alaskan earthquake in 1964. Lives were lost and much of the town was destroyed...not something the locals take lightly. Link to comment
lochlan 0 Posted March 1, 2010 Member ID: 4,650 Group: Site Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 0 Topics Per Day: 0 Content Count: 50 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 265 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/09/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 10, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 I wonder if the authorities remember the boy who cried wolf !!! Warnings for everything and everytime NOTHING Happens !!! It's better to be safe than sorry. And I don't think it's quite accurate to say "nothing happened"...just ask the people of Chile...I doubt they'd think of the loss of over 400 people as "nothing" Yes im accurate in saying nothing happened , because nothing did happen as we are talking about the tsunami , not the quake. I tempt fate everyday when I get in my car and drive on the road. If we have no accurate system then we may as well not have a system at all , as now people take no notice of the warnings. Link to comment
JimmyBanks 0 Posted March 1, 2010 Member ID: 4,130 Group: Site Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 112 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 4,370 Content Per Day: 0.76 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 25,112 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/03/08 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 1, 2015 Birthday: 12/02/1982 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Yes im accurate in saying nothing happened , because nothing did happen as we are talking about the tsunami , not the quake.I tempt fate everyday when I get in my car and drive on the road. If we have no accurate system then we may as well not have a system at all , as now people take no notice of the warnings. Nothing = zero, zilch, nada, not a thing... I believe you will find many countries experienced freak waves, while it was not a tsunami I believe it does not equate to nothing either... you are right you do tempt fate every day when you git in your car. When you drive down the road and you see a yellow sign with an animal on it what does it mean? Look out for wildlife that may be crossing the street. You may go past that sign every day for 15 years and never see the animal that is on the sign, but that doesn't mean that they should remove the sign. It's a known stretch of road that wombats, kangaroos, possums, (add any animal) cross and you need to be cautious. Same with the Tsunami warning... They didn't tell you to evacuate, they just advised you that a Tsunami could be on its way... Thank goodness it only amounted to larger waves in most places this time... Link to comment
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