Heads22 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Holy s***. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev211 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 (edited) Yeah I'm in hawaii right now, right on the coast. yay? Edit: with tsunami warnings in effect and sirens blaring Edited March 11, 2011 by kev211 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjshoe04 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 This is crazy. Hope the casualties are kept to a minimum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightni Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Tsunami Alert for New Zealand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, and others. Waves expected over the next few hours, caused by 8.9 earthquake in Japan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texsox Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 QUOTE (kev211 @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 02:40 AM) Yeah I'm in hawaii right now, right on the coast. yay? Edit: with tsunami warnings in effect and sirens blaring Yikes. Hope there are special markdowns on tsunami gear like surf boards and pfds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 It sounds like reports are expecting 1-2 meters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBAHO Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 5th biggest Earthquake since 1900 apparently. Considering the Tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka, Indonesia etc. back in 2004 I think it was, the worst may still yet to come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBAHO Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 And really it's been a crazy 3-6 months for these type of disasters. I can't remember at any point in my lifetime, around the whole Pacific / Oceanic Region, for things to be as bad as they have been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 State of emergency declared at 2 nuclear power plants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 (edited) Ugh. In the last few seconds of the video I posted above you can see several vehicles driving perpendicular to the oncoming tsunami and are going to be engulfed. Edited March 11, 2011 by BigSqwert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Tsunami arrival time map. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 07:19 AM) Tsunami arrival time map. When did it start so I can do the math and see where it will be in X hours? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 08:22 AM) When did it start so I can do the math and see where it will be in X hours? 2:46 p.m. Tokyo time, US Eastern is 14 hours behind that, so just after midnight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 (edited) QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 07:13 AM) State of emergency declared at 2 nuclear power plants. All non-essential personnel will leave the plant. Probably will SCRAM the reactors. Edited March 11, 2011 by StrangeSox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2HH Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Crazy stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Apparently the cooling water pumps at the Fukushima plant have been damaged, leading to the SoE. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/1...emergency-quake The reactor is shut down, but those things still have massive amounts of latent heat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve9347 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 QUOTE (kev211 @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 02:40 AM) Yeah I'm in hawaii right now, right on the coast. yay? Edit: with tsunami warnings in effect and sirens blaring Wow, terrible timing, Kev. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve9347 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 02:42 AM) This is crazy. Hope the casualties are kept to a minimum. Supposedly more than 100 bodies have washed up on shore... this is terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 08:25 AM) Supposedly more than 100 bodies have washed up on shore... this is terrible. NPR was reporting locations with at least 300. This is not good. They've shut down at least one of the US nuke's on the Pacific shore in anticipation of the tsunami. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 11, 2011 -> 08:25 AM) Supposedly more than 100 bodies have washed up on shore... this is terrible. Did I hear reports right of an entire ship of about 100 people being taken under? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 I guess the only good news is that this was so far offshore. If a shallow 8.9 hit on Japan's main island, I'd think things would have been way, way worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxFan562004 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 how long do the tsunami warnings last for the HI and the west coast? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 That whirlpool video was amazing and terrifying. That was straight out of Pirates of the caribbean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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