santa cruz got the worst of it out here. couple of boats and a harbor got smashed up. thats about it
big_pimp_tim-made it cool to roll in the first damn place! Mon Jun 11 2007 09:27 PM-harley finally rolled with me "I'm working with him...he's young but, there is much potential. He can apprentice with me and then he's yours for final training. He will remember the face of his father...
Some day, Knutreturns just may be the greatest of us all...."-THE bastard
So far, today's tsunami has mainly affected Japan -- there are reports of up to 300 dead in the coastal city of Sendai -- but future tsunamis could strike the U.S. and virtually any other coastal area of the world with equal or greater force, say scientists. In a little-heeded warning issued at a 2009 conference on the subject, experts outlined a range of mechanisms by which climate change could already be causing more earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic activity.
"When the ice is lost, the earth's crust bounces back up again and that triggers earthquakes, which trigger submarine landslides, which cause tsunamis," Bill McGuire, professor at University College London, told Reuters.
I'm glad that despite hundreds of deaths, thousands missing, and a pending nuclear disaster, some still find time to make it a political matter!
Some guy here in Oregon died because the retarded piece of shit went to the coast to take pictures of the wave. The news is saying the Tsunami killed him but I think we all know it was his own overwhelming stupidity that killed him.
November 6th, 2012: Americas new Independence Day.
Great. Just another excuse not to build nuclear plants here.
Indeed. Despite the need for them to solve the issue of global warming. If you "believe" in it so to speak.
Or to stop buying oil from the tyrants and warlords.
"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller
"Conan, what's the meaning of life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!" -Conan the Barbarian
"Well, yeah." -Jason E. Perkins
"If I had a dime for every time Pariah was right about something I'd owe twenty cents." -Ultimate Jaburg53
"Fair enough. I defer to your expertise." -Prometheus
Well done for getting the reference! You want a cookie?
How about sinophob, racist, douche-bag? You prefer to be called that? You know what those words mean, right?
"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller
"Conan, what's the meaning of life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!" -Conan the Barbarian
"Well, yeah." -Jason E. Perkins
"If I had a dime for every time Pariah was right about something I'd owe twenty cents." -Ultimate Jaburg53
"Fair enough. I defer to your expertise." -Prometheus
"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller
"Conan, what's the meaning of life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!" -Conan the Barbarian
"Well, yeah." -Jason E. Perkins
"If I had a dime for every time Pariah was right about something I'd owe twenty cents." -Ultimate Jaburg53
"Fair enough. I defer to your expertise." -Prometheus
It's Pariah we're talking about. By the time he has "a valid point", the anti-Christ will be born and the Rapture will start.
"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller
"Conan, what's the meaning of life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!" -Conan the Barbarian
"Well, yeah." -Jason E. Perkins
"If I had a dime for every time Pariah was right about something I'd owe twenty cents." -Ultimate Jaburg53
"Fair enough. I defer to your expertise." -Prometheus
Lets see you try living without Chinese imports and without China lending money to your debts, for a start.
BTW, Hong Kong and Taiwan are parts of China too, you ignoramus.
"Batman is only meaningful as an answer to a world which in its basics is chaotic and in the hands of the wrong people, where no justice can be found. I think it's very suitable to our perception of the world's condition today... Batman embodies the will to resist evil" -Frank Miller
"Conan, what's the meaning of life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!" -Conan the Barbarian
"Well, yeah." -Jason E. Perkins
"If I had a dime for every time Pariah was right about something I'd owe twenty cents." -Ultimate Jaburg53
"Fair enough. I defer to your expertise." -Prometheus
Lets see you try living without Chinese imports and without China lending money to your debts, for a start.
this thread really isn't the place, but since you are so ignorant I will pick you a part.
I would love to live without Chinese lending and imports.
Lets face it Chinese goods are so cheap because of the socialist labor model that produces them. It's basically slavery when the government dictates where you work and when and how. They can meet any price point by decree. So without Chinese imports no one in the world would be competing with their artificially low price points. The do not win on quality, but price.
Without Chinese lending, the US lawmakers would have been forced to live within their means and we would not be in the financial crisis we are in today. No multi-billion dollar bailouts for labor unions, banks ect. The government wouldn't be funding abortions, art museum, and ballets. Instead the federal government would only be providing those services required by the Constitution instead of all this fluff. In turn US businesses and taxpayers would not be burdened by this debt and we would be back to being the economic Super Power we once were.
You can now go back to OZ and stare at the rainbows.
A 65-year-old man has been found on the roof of his floating house nearly 10 miles out at sea, two days after the tsunami that devastated the north-east coast of Japan.
Hiromitsu Shinkawa must have resigned himself to his fate when he was swept away by the retreating tsunami that roared ashore in his home town of Minami Soma in Fukushima prefecture.
As the wave approached, Shinkawa took the fateful decision to return home to collect belongings. Minutes later he was out at sea clinging to a piece of the roof from his own home.
Incredibly, he was spotted by a maritime self-defence force destroyer taking part in the rescue effort as he clung to the wreckage with one hand and waved a self-made red flag with the other. He had been at sea for two days.
Reports said that on being handed a drink aboard the rescue boat, Shinkawa gulped it down and immediately burst into tears. His wife, with whom he had returned home as the tsunami approached, is still missing.
He was quoted as saying: "No helicopters or boats that came nearby noticed me. I thought that day was going to be the last day of my life."
Government officials said Shinkawa was in "good condition" after being taken to hospital by helicopter.
"I ran away after I heard a tsunami was coming," he told Jiji Press. "But I turned back to fetch something from home and was swept away. I was rescued while hanging on to the roof of my house."
The self-defence forces said the good weather and calm waters had enabled Shinkawa to stay alive during his 48-hour drift.
It's quite long, but very informative and worth reading.
One of the more interesting parts compares the current Japan crisis to the Tsunami a few years ago in Indonesia.
Quote:
Though Japanese officials have refused to speculate on the death toll, Indonesian geologist Hery Harjono, who dealt with the 2004 Asian tsunami, said it would be "a miracle really if it turns out to be less than 10,000" dead.
The 2004 tsunami killed 230,000 people - of which only 184,000 bodies were found.
Officials said 50 workers were still there trying to put water into the reactors to cool them. They say 800 other staff were evacuated. The fires and explosions at the reactors have injured 15 workers and military personnel and exposed up to 190 people to elevated radiation
These people in particular I admire the hell out of. They're risking their lives to protect everyone else.
And these are people who have already lost their homes and family members.
Similarly in Chernobyl in 1986, there were a few men who went in and shut down the Chernobyl reactor, who knew that doing so was exposing them to fatal amounts of radiation. But did so willingly to save millions of others, and permanently shut down the Chernobyl nuclear reactor core.
I wonder how far inland the Tsunami waves went. Two miles? Five miles? Ten?
If there were and earthquake of similar magnitude in, say, Iceland or the Canary Islands, those tsunami waves would be hitting the Atlantic coast of the U.S. and Europe, and likely many of us posting on these boards would be severely impacted, if not dead.
A few years ago with Wilma and Katrina storms, it was estimated that the storm surge would flood areas 11 to 15 miles inland in Florida. And in Dade and Broward counties, if you go much further West than that, you're in the evergades. What looks like land on a map is actually swamp (i.e., underwater).
I thought it was inspiring that she briefly mentioned donating to the tsunami victims, and was pleasantly astonished at the outpouring of charity, $4700.00 or so, that people eagerly gave in a short time.
A bit long-winded in her video, but I like the point she makes, about looking at what happened in Japan and appreciating what we have.
That relative to many people on earth, we here in the U.S. and wider West, even on our worst day, have a level of comfort and wealth that few on Earth are fortunate enough to have.
We just had a magnitude 3 earthquake yesterday, and according to the news, there is a very big possibility that the manila trench will move within the next few days, and we'll get hit with a magnitude 8.5 quake.
5.3 is a number on the Richter scale. A 5.3 would be classified as moderate. A 5.3 can cause major damage to poorly constructed buildings over small regions. At most slight damage to well-designed buildings.
Maybe you should stop what you are doing till you can grasp the concept of it's consequences.
