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Title: Tsunami Hits Hawaii With Three-foot Waves
Post by: sam on February 28, 2010, 16:35

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100227-tsunami-hits-hawaii-after-huge-chile-earthquake/

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Moving across the ocean at jetliner speeds, the first tsunami waves from Chile's magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Hawaii about 12 hours after the temblor, whose death toll in Chile has now grown to 214. (Chile Earthquake Pictures: Quake Spurs Tsunami Threat.)

Title: Re: Tsunami Hits Hawaii With Three-foot Waves
Post by: Rik on February 28, 2010, 16:43

I bet somebody tried to ride the wave.

Title: Re: Tsunami Hits Hawaii With Three-foot Waves
Post by: sam on February 28, 2010, 16:51

well I heard on the news last night that there was a guy but the firebrigade went and got him out.

Title: Re: Tsunami Hits Hawaii With Three-foot Waves
Post by: Rik on February 28, 2010, 16:57

I'm not surprised, there's always someone who has to try - and puts others' lives at risk in the process.

Title: Re: Tsunami Hits Hawaii With Three-foot Waves
Post by: sam on February 28, 2010, 19:10

yeah, numpty... but that's humans for you.

Title: Re: Tsunami Hits Hawaii With Three-foot Waves
Post by: Simon on February 28, 2010, 20:49

The fire brigade should have left him to it!  One less moron in the genepool wouldn't be a bad thing.

Title: Re: Tsunami Hits Hawaii With Three-foot Waves
Post by: Clive on February 28, 2010, 22:39

Tsunami with three-foot waves seems a bit of an oxymoron to me!   :dunno:  Waves that  size are quite normal around here! 

Title: Re: Tsunami Hits Hawaii With Three-foot Waves
Post by: Simon on February 28, 2010, 23:29

That's also true of the south coast, Clive.

Title: Re: Tsunami Hits Hawaii With Three-foot Waves
Post by: sam on March 01, 2010, 00:34

Quote from: Clive on February 28, 2010, 22:39

Tsunami with three-foot waves seems a bit of an oxymoron to me!   :dunno:  Waves that  size are quite normal around here! 

yeah but no toser ever bothers to go into that water.

Title: Re: Tsunami Hits Hawaii With Three-foot Waves
Post by: Rik on March 01, 2010, 10:52

It's the raw sewage that does it.

Title: Re: Tsunami Hits Hawaii With Three-foot Waves
Post by: Clive on March 01, 2010, 11:22

More like the surfers that seem to have completely taken over in recent years! 

Title: Re: Tsunami Hits Hawaii With Three-foot Waves
Post by: sam on March 01, 2010, 14:27

I wouldn't want to go into that sea.