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Strong quake and tsunami hits Japan
03-11-2011, 01:10 PM
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See the cars driving on the road as the wave approaches. Some of them speed up, some of them stop, some of them try to turn off road. Then they just get picked up like dinky-toys and disappear. There were people in them....
Such a big mass of black water moving inland. Such a massive wall of energy.
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Holy shit...
Anybody in Hawaii near a beach? Get to higher ground for a bit. Heck - anybody on the West coast might want to double check the situation if you're directly on the coast. -Probably- won't be much to the wave by that point, but better safe than sorry.
Damn, it looks bad in Japan right now. And more big aftershocks too. This is really bad.
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Worse. big waves heading east toward the west coast. It'll hit Alaska at D+6, Oregon and Wasington at D+9 and figure southern califonria at D12.
Batten down the hatches.
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Waves have already hit Hawaii, and I'm hearing that they're not huge. Three to six feet, tops, but they're still doing damage. Hopefully by the time they hit the various mainlands they'll have petered out even more.
ETA: I stand corrected. CNN just reported they're expecting a mile-thick "bulge" or wall of water six feet tall to hit the West Coast.
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Don't we have a member in Japan? Blackaeronaut, maybe? *can't remember*
Good luck, buddy. Here's hoping you're okay.
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Here's hoping Black Aeronaut is ok and his girlfriend too!
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Those are fairly big waves Bob, considering their speed is about 80-100 mph when it hits land. Let's hope BA was at sea when it hit.
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It really
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scares me to know how unprepared we are in PR. Too damned arrogant to think that even having the same ticking bomb just waiting off the northern coast we still build like nothing is going to happen. Hoping BAand his girlfriend are alright and were spared the worst of it.
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Oh, wow, I hadn't thought of BA... I don't remember seeing him here since last night...
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It's worse than that, he's in the Navy. Which pretty much guarantees he's on the coast.
(ETA: Or, y'know, at sea, and unable to post due to OpSec...)
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US Naval base is in Yokusuka, isn't it? Looking at the area in a map it appears pretty sheltered compared to the epicentre of the quake.
And being at sea is one of the safest places to be when one of these waves goes past. And likely, the Navy would be rather busy at the moment anyway.
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Watched some off the footage from this on the morning news, my perents couldn't understand why iI was going "oh shit"
Them: you wern't like this when the tidal wave hiy Bali.
Me: thats because the news didn't cover it like this.
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Fox lives in Hawaii doesn't he? Hope he's ok.
Initally all of the Pacific rim got put on Tsunami alert (which included places like Australia and NZ) but some locations got spared since there are islands (Papua, Indonesia, etc) in the way.
Australia dodged a bullet this time.
I'm safe... which is a relief considering I live about +10 meters above sea level and about 400 meters from the sea and can actually see it.
A wall of water comes my way I'm done for. If any of you guys live near the coast... um... shouldn't you be on your way to higher ground soon?
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BA's probably all right -- CNN's been reporting on its crawl/ticker that there was no damage to US naval assets.
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Well this is disturbing news. There's a couple of nuclear reactors that got damaged in the quake. One of them may be leaking. Both of them have damage to their cooling systems and are getting hotter with no sign of cooling down.
I'm hoping they can get in there and shut down the reactors completely and isolate the fuel rods before something really bad happens.
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RE: Strong quake and tsunami hits Japan
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(This post was last modified: 01-19-2018, 02:37 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
I hope this is a good sign (people want to help so much they've overloaded the server) instead of the alternative (they're gone): The Japanese Red Cross website is "temporarily unavailable" as of the time of this posting.
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I'm fine, not in Hawaii. (I'm on the Mainland in New England, btw.)
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No worries, guys. I'm safe and so is my lady.
The ing I haven't really mentioned lately is that as of February 15, I'm no long active duty. Don't ask, it's stupid BS. The point is that I wasn't there for the action... Though now I wish I was. My lady is scared, but otherwise alright, and so is the rest of her family.
Right now I wish I could be there helping in any way possible. (-.- 
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good to hear
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Glad to hear that you're ok.
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The reactor bldg in the daichi bldg just blew it's ceiling. Now we're looking at a chernobyl scenario. Glad your okay, BA
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Likewise.
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Looking at the explosion video on Sky.... Looks like it was just a lightweight outer structure of some sort that blew. Most of the framing is still there. Most sources are saying it was just a hydrogen explosion of some sort, and the reactor containment is still intact.
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03-12-2011, 07:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-19-2018, 02:37 PM by Bob Schroeck.)
CNN's saying the explosion was from a failure in the coolant pumping system, but says nothing about hydrogen.
CNN also gets the Panic Fail award for linking to the story from the front page of their site using the text "Pump system caused nuclear blast". Sorry, editors, a nuclear blast is different from a more conventional explosion in a nuclear plant.
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