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Allan Forbes....and anyone else on the West Coast

Mark Eatherton
Mark Eatherton Member Posts: 5,852
in THE MAIN WALL
You'd best head for higher ground...



8.9 Earth Quake in Japan is sending a 30' tall wave of water your way.



Hopefully some energy will be dsisipated by the time it hits the west coast, but you never know. They said the wave can move at speeds of 600 MPH.



Wow... 5th largest recorded Earth Quake in the history of recording quakes.



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  • Mark Eatherton
    Mark Eatherton Member Posts: 5,852
    The plot thickens...

    Can you say nuclear melt down?



    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031103673.html



    Watch the video of the steam explosion. I don't know how ANYONE could survive that.



    Frank, I hope TLN's family is safe.



    Thoughts and prayers to the people of Japan.



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  • Tim McElwain
    Tim McElwain Member Posts: 4,633
    My sons best friend

    lives in Japan, he married a Japanese girl and settled in Osaka ( not affected much by the quake), he works in Tokyo however and says that the devastation is unbelievable, with entire towns missing north of the city. He is a computer engineer and six people from his company are missing. We definitely must keep them (all of Japan) in prayer.
  • Steamhead
    Steamhead Member Posts: 17,215
    edited March 2011
    They're fine, ME

    thanks for the thought. The epicenter was actually well north of Tokyo so they didn't get the full effect. But it was strong enough to cause considerable damage in that city.



    The explosion was probably hydrogen, rather than steam. Same thing happened at Three Mile Island, but it was rather small and inside the reactor containment so you couldn't see it from the outside.



    And the reactor itself was a GE, not the Babcock & Wilcox of TMI fame.
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  • Alan (California Radiant) Forbes
    Alan (California Radiant) Forbes Member Posts: 4,170
    Thanks for your thoughts, Mark.

    There was major damage at some of the boat harbors up and down the coast and only one fatality.  Where I live, it would take a pretty big tsunami to snag me.  I'm on the east side of the bay, up a few hundred feet.



    Seems like most of the people that got hurt were the sightseers, photographers and thrill seekers who couldn't stay away.
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  • Mark Eatherton
    Mark Eatherton Member Posts: 5,852
    Glad to hear it Allan...

    I remember the last time I was out in your town (Berkeley) for the hydronic conference, and while watching TV in the evening, there was a crawl going across the bottom telling people to evacuate to higher ground because of a Tsunami warning, and I called the front desk, and the girl who answered didn't know what I was talking about and told me not to worry about it.



    Yeah, right...



    I grabbed some stuff, and the wife, and jumped in the rental car and headed for higher ground. Shortly, we heard the warning was canceled, but being right on the coast, I didn't want to take any chances. This was right after the Tsunami in Viet Nam, so we were quite aware of the damage they can do.



    The power of Nature is awesome....



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