8.8 earthquake hits Chile; tsunami alert for Pacific

So how many people are gonna try to surf the thing? This IS Hawaii after all.

 

On one feed I saw a kid on a board.

 

I've seen a number of folks surfing.

 

Further proof of the stupidity of the human race.

 

CNN host feels like he has to add "we're hoping for the best, obviously" after detailing that it may not be as bad as first thought. I'm pretty sure no one believes him. They're hoping for chaos -- it's a better story.

 

Yeah, the breathless anticipation over an eight-foot wave is pretty fucking ridiculous

 

It is the increase in the shoreline. Imagine if the ocean went up eight feet. That shore would be pushed back hundreds of feet, then the water rushes back and takes everything not bolted down with it.

Hawaii is the end of a massive mountain range that you cannot see since it is mostly underwater. When you have a continental shelf, you can see the wave build and build over 50-100 miles. Hawaii does not have a shelf.

Here, they won't know how bad the wave is until it is literally on top of them.

 

Honolulu Advertiser is reporting the water is already receding in Hilo. Only got about three feet of water.

 

OK, so, here's all I'm saying. In 2004, I visited Thailand for two weeks and two months after I left, it got wiped out pretty badly by the tsunami. I lived in Hawaii for the last year and moved to the northeast three months ago. Then I see another tsunami (though clearly not as devastating) hit.

I'm starting to think I'm a harbinger of destruction (or, in Hawaii's case, mild inconvenience).

 

GET AWAY FROM THE NORTHEAST!!!! (but not until after I leave, whenever that might be)

 

or maybe a politician?

 

Stay in the Northeast as long as you want.
Disaster seems to hit only after you leave, so stay in the northeast as long as you want.