Sounds like Jimmy Kimmel is in Hawaii and nobody can get in touch with him.

He's safe.

 

We are back, officially "unevacuated". Thanks for your kind words. It was scary. Best wishes to our friends in Japan and all affected.

http://twitter.com/#!/jimmykimmel

I am not sure exactly what that is telling me, but that is freaky.

 

I'm guessing it is some sort of wave intensity or height measure.

I dont know if getting out of your car or staying in your car is good either way. No matter what, a gigantic wave with a leading edge of flotsam is rushing at you at a high speed. It isnt as if you are jumping into a pool. You might jump into the way of a car a boat or even parts of a house that is moving at 50+ MPH

I'd say get out and float with your feet pointing down-stream. At least that's how you go through rapids if you fall out of your boat/kayak. The floatsam complicates that a bit, but I'd just imagine it'd be way to easy for you to get trapped in the car as it became submerged or rolled.

I'd say get out and float with your feet pointing down-stream. At least that's how you go through rapids if you fall out of your boat/kayak. The floatsam complicates that a bit, but I'd just imagine it'd be way to easy for you to get trapped in the car as it became submerged or rolled.

Honestly I don't think it matters. Chances of survival will be near-zero in either case with a wall of 50 mph water/mud/debris slamming into you, and churning you downstream for however long.

 

Honestly I don't think it matters. Chances of survival will be near-zero in either case with a wall of 50 mph water/mud/debris slamming into you, and churning you downstream for however long.

 

Well, yeah.

situation not improving at Fukushima

 

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wo...0,2627198.story

Honestly I don't think it matters. Chances of survival will be near-zero in either case with a wall of 50 mph water/mud/debris slamming into you, and churning you downstream for however long.

 

 

Plus, there is going to be some sort of undertow that will keep you down for a little while as well.

 

No matter what, when you are facing a tsunami wave like what we saw today, your chances of survival are very small.

I have a Japanese friend (she lives in Yokohama outside of Japan) and she told me "I'm alive, but I'm in hell"

Sigh... idiots on the West Coast standing on the shore trying to get a look at the tsunami waves and take pictures. Only in America...

I have a Japanese friend (she lives in Yokohama outside of Japan) and she told me "I'm alive, but I'm in hell"

How is Yokohama outside of Japan?

How is Yokohama outside of Japan?

Supposed to say Tokyo

Earthquake moved yokohama to mainland china

I'd say get out and float with your feet pointing down-stream. At least that's how you go through rapids if you fall out of your boat/kayak. The floatsam complicates that a bit, but I'd just imagine it'd be way to easy for you to get trapped in the car as it became submerged or rolled.

Cars will sta above water for some time due to the air in the main cabin. Your best chance is to stay in the protection of the car at least until the air runs out and then try to make your escape then.

Nuclear emergency declared at quake-damaged reactor

Japanese authorities are venting radioactive steam into the air after the earthquake on Friday critically damaged a nuclear reactor at Fukushima Daiichi plant.

 

The Japanese government on Friday declared a nuclear emergency at Tokyo Electric Power's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station after the reactor's cooling system failed. The government ordered thousands of people living within 6 miles of the plant to evacuate. Early Saturday, it declared a nuclear emergency at a second power plant where a cooling system had also failed.

Entire Japan coast shifted 2.4 metres, earth axis moves ten inches

• Earth's axis has reportedly shifted ten inches as a result of the quake, and Japan's coast is said to have permanently shifted 2.4 metres.
• St Louis, Missouri media outlets report that city has moved an inch as a result of the quake.

How is that even possible?

How is that even possible?

 

Tectonic plates in which the Earth is comprised of? Isn't that how mountains were formed? Plates slowing pushing together.

The New Madrid earthquake in the early 1800s re-routed the Mississippi, iirc.

How is that even possible?

I am sure there is a certain geologist here who can explain this

Entire Japan coast shifted 2.4 metres, earth axis moves ten inches

• Earth's axis has reportedly shifted ten inches as a result of the quake, and Japan's coast is said to have permanently shifted 2.4 metres.
• St Louis, Missouri media outlets report that city has moved an inch as a result of the quake.

Japan quake moved St. Louis "a fraction of an inch"

Friday's massive earthquake near the coast of Honshu, Japan, one of the strongest ever worldwide, actually moved St. Louis up and down but nothing that people here would notice, an earthquake expert at St. Louis University says.

 

"It has no direct affect on our earthquake problem," says Robert B. Herrmann, with St. Louis University's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. "It's just too far away."

 

Herrmann added: "St. Louis moved up and down but it just moved up a fraction of an inch because of this earthquake. But it moved up and down so slowly no one would have felt it. It's too far away to affect us, and it's too far away to do anything in the earth related to earthquakes in the St. Louis region."

Sigh... idiots on the West Coast standing on the shore trying to get a look at the tsunami waves and take pictures. Only in America...

 

I'm not gonna even lie. If I knew my kids were safe, I would totally be one of those people.

Well they evacuated us to a higher floor in the lobby last night at 1am and we had to sit there until given the all clear at 6am. Not a big deal.

I'm not gonna even lie. If I knew my kids were safe, I would totally be one of those people.

I like you and everything but I still would talk s*** about you really bad.

I like you and everything but I still would talk s*** about you really bad.

 

See also facebook.