Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

[helen]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

Well, it looks like we dodged the bullet this time.

We sure dodged the bullet, as the saying goes! But no real damage.

Hurricanes not hitting us, that is like dodging the bullet. But Saturday's event was not a miss, it was a hit to be sure. What hit us however, was small and noticable so it will be like we was hit by a BB Pellet, rubber bullet, or a tranquilizer dart.

[Leo Lakio]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

Question is, what does the law permit people to do to survive?

"The law" doesn't permit looting. BUT, given the circumstances, it would be understandable if those authorized to enforce the law chose not to prosecute.

[turtlegirl]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

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Time for me to return to my letter of disgust to a McDonald's franchise owner!

I am disgusted as well! You get it girl, write it and send it to the powers that be, please - what the hell sort of manager is so ignorant as to force his employees to work in an inundation zone!! That is sooo ridiculous, and it has to be at least covered by OSHA standards. I hope that whoever was behind this will be fired!

[Kalalau]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

Evidently looting is breaking out in Chile now. It brings up a question I have had for a long time. When, if ever, are you allowed to simply take what you need in order to survive? Say there is a huge disaster and you are without food or water or shelter and you have spent your last dime already and of course no banks are open. Are you just supposed to starve to death or die of thirst? Or are you allowed to enter a store and take (steal?) what you need to get through a day? If you are caught in a blizzard (real likely in Hawai'i...) are you allowed to break into and enter a house for shelter in order to survive, or does the law require you to just go die?

I saw people looting after Katrina, in many cases they had to in order to survive, and its not hard to imagine the same situation in Haiti and in Chile after their earthquakes, the same thing could happen anywhere, certainly in California if an 8.5 knocks down San Francisco again. Question is, what does the law permit people to do to survive?

[Menehune Man]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

We sure dodged the bullet, as the saying goes!

Incredible watching Hilo bay/harbor draining and filling again. It was amazing!
Then the reef off of Maui became exposed... and on. But no real damage. Cool!

[tutusue]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

I filled up WaterBob...now have to use up a bathtub full of water. I guess that's a good problem to have!

I thought about WaterBob as I was filling waste baskets!!! How do you dry the inside of it?

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Besides, the "surfer schmuck" should be allowed to stay out in the ocean if he so desires. It's his life and his fun time. If he wants to drown, then that's the consequence of his choice.

While I don't have a problem with that there's still the possibility that should he be injured or lose his life, his family just might sue the C&C and the State. Then there's the cost of emergency personnel having to tend to an incredibly stupid act, not to mention the personnel being put in harm's way needlessly. As it was, he cost the taxpayers money with the HPD chopper being sent to warn him. He should be made to reimburse that cost. Yes, I know the chopper was in the air anyway.

Oh great! Just what we need. An idiot defying safety warnings to be rewarded with an appearance on national TV. As if we don't already have enough problems with idiots who put others in harm's way because they so desperately crave for attention (i.e. Richard Heene/the balloon boy).

You deleted Pomai's laughing smilie.

Time for me to return to my letter of disgust to a McDonald's franchise owner!

[Pomai]

Re: Hilo Tsunami

HawaiiNewsNow (KGMB/KHNL/KFVE) is showing a shot of Coconut Island in Hilo Bay and the water level around that island is going down

While a captivating video of the ebb and flow of the affected tides, the video quality was grainy. I hope they upgrade that camera. Based on history, Hilo Bay is a key location, and we need reliable, better quality video surveillance feeds set up all around the Big Island's coasts.

Firsthand, my mother was THERE and experienced the 1946 Hilo Tsunami more upland, having lost friends in its wake. Ever since, she's very PARANOID about Tsunami threats. Ask her (or ask me, and I'll ask her). She has some interesting stories to tell about that event.

[Kalalau]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

Yes, I live in San Diego, the marina is at the north end of Shelter Island in San Diego Bay near the Bali Hai restaurant, if you know where that is. Its probably on google earth. I was shocked by my friend's account because there was nothing in the local news about it. He said there was broken wood floating all over the harbor--from piers, docks, boats. Very surprising.

[D'Alani]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

I think Kalalau lives somewhere in California where the surges were bigger than here.

[LikaNui]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

What marina was that?

[Kalalau]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

Ave Maria! A friend who lives aboard a boat at a local marina said the surge from the tsunami tore apart a pier, several boats bottomed out on the sand or broke their moorings, some crashed into the docks. Some of these boats in the 70 to 80 ft. range. So this tsunami did have consequences!

[Leo Lakio]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

I just saw on Twitter that pzarquon and his family are donating the extra groceries that they purchased (in advance of possible tsunami damage) to their church's food bank.

What a fantastic idea, and one that ought to be circulating far and wide.

Thank you, Ryan.

[Frankie's Market]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

Who knows? The guy may make it on the Jay Leno Show.

Oh great! Just what we need. An idiot defying safety warnings to be rewarded with an appearance on national TV. As if we don't already have enough problems with idiots who put others in harm's way because they so desperately crave for attention (i.e. Richard Heene/the balloon boy).

[sophielynette]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

As I wrote earlier, anyone swimming or surfing or kayaking for the next couple of days is a certifiable suicidal masochist. Don't mess with Mother Ocean.

A few of the guys from my dorm decided to go surfing late last night. These same people had been cavalier during the tsunami warning. Some people will never listen.

[Kalalau]

Re: Chile Earthquake and Tsunami Warning for Feb. 27, 2010

CNN had a feed of a camera on the guy trying to surf. He paddled for wave after wave and never caught one, then when he finally did he gooned it, and they kept playing that over & over & over...not my choice for getting in a surf movie let alone splashed all over the world news. Another camera showed water rushing into and out of Hilo Bay. Looking again at figures in the Hawaii Atlas vol. 2 for tsunami run-ups in feet, it is pretty apparent that tsunamis coming from the north are usually much bigger in Hawai'i than those coming from the south.