A wild scene from Alaska to San Francisco!
When I was a younger boy I dreamed of one day riding a tsunami. I grew up on the Oregon coast and there were signs on the main road to the beach that instructed what to do should a tsunami happen to come. I read their clarion calls to run for high ground but I always thought, “Hell no. I will run home, grab my rainbow Hawaiian Island Creation and surf that thing into the record books.”
Then one day an earthquake struck off the coast of Japan and the news reported that a tsunami was on its way. I was overjoyed and begged my father to drive to Sunset Beach so I could surf into the record books. He agreed and soon there we were, on the sand, with a handful of other tsunami watchers. I waited patiently for the monster to appear on the horizon. My plan was simple, as soon as I saw it I would run into the water with Hawaiian Island Creation, spin quickly, catch it and surf into downtown Coos Bay and there would be parades in my honor from Portland all the way down to Ashland after I succeeded.
We sat for a long time until someone declared that the tsunami had washed up already and measured six inches.
I was devastated. My shattered dreams mixing amongst the crabs and seashells.
Today, another tsunami was supposed to hit California from a 7.9 magnitude earthquake originating off Alaska. AOL reported:
Tsunami alerts were lifted on Tuesday for the U.S. West Coast and western Canada after a magnitude-7.9 earthquake struck in the Gulf of Alaska, sending the state’s coastal residents inland to seek shelter from possible tidal waves.
In Alaska, people packed into high schools and other evacuation centers after the quake hit shortly after midnight local time (0900 GMT).
Officials had warned residents as far south as San Francisco to be ready to evacuate coastal areas but by 5:15 a.m. PST (1315 GMT) the U.S. National Weather Service had lifted all tsunami advisories, watches and warnings for California, Oregon Washington and Alaska. Canadian officials lifted one for coastal British Colombia.
Can you believe AOL still exists? Me neither.
About 5 years ago, I woke up, all hung over, jumped on my bike, grabbed my Pyzel, and stroked it to Diamond Head Lighthouse. When I got there, I noticed there was no one there, the ocean looked trippy, and there were tons of boats offshore. In a stupor, I paddled out, and surfed epic waves, coming in from a weird angle, with one other guy, a French dude that ripped. Turns out there was a huge earthquake in Chile and we were under a Tsunami alert. All the boats in the harbor went out to sea and the crazy looking ocean was due to strange shifting of water. The strange but epic waves we surfed were Tsunami waves from Chile. We celebrated hard that night, with Chilean Malbec. There you go Chas. I achieved your dream and I didn’t even try.
I can clean your carpets as well..
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oh, that’s dirty… Probably my wife’s worst nightmare right there. If Chas was mad at Asston just talking about his wife, what would he do if he walked in on this guy??
Neg, I hope you sent an email to Ghost of SuperJnr and Drunken Angel this morning asking them back.
That would be a breach of their privacy and an abuse of the strict code of honour a Moderator must adhere to.
You have to admit it’s sort of poetic that the two commentators who publicly shuffled off the Beach Grit coil were called the Ghost of Super Jr and Drunken Angel.
I hate to be that guy but…
Trying to surf a genuine tsunami would be a quick route to a Darwin Award.
What’s your favourite natural disaster? The idea of dying in a natural disaster always seemed appealing to me until I experienced the unease of a hurricane in Nicaragua.
I’m used to cyclones and floods, bushfires freak me the fuck out.
Aren’t u in Lennox? The most of a cyclone you’d be used to is stacked lines off the points
mate ex cyclone Debbie fucked us up last year…..my missus works in Lismore. Was 20 foot underwater.
A meteor would be pretty cool, could chill out in the following ice age.
Where I live we get hurricanes pretty often, the town’s pier got destroyed last year. It’s kind of a fun energy leading up to it followed by the boredom of waiting it out.
i like the bbqs that go down couple days after the storm cause everybody has to clean out the freezer since there’s no power. should have seen the post-Hugo shrimp boils.
I’m a bit of an earthquake magnet. Can’t say they’re my favourite though.
I was forced to endure a 5 minute wait this morning for my flat white. Ludicrous.
That is what you deserve for choosing Flat White anything. Well, except wall paint.
Yes they are very common. I used to order macchiato’s however they started making me anxious.
Macchiato is the most I’m willing to debase my coffee.
Yep why you would go out and pay for a flat white has got me fucked…
At least get 4 dollars worth of froth for you troubles.
Did you guys know that there was also an earthquake today in Jakarta?
I did.
That’s because my my hotel room started shaking and I was running down 24 flights of stairs to the lobby.
Good times.
yep earthquake there, volcano in japan and phillipines – all linked in ring of fire!!! would been scary tho
At least can do bitt fitness by running back 24 flights!!!
There were a few people walking down the stairs that were sweating and out of breath. Sucks if it was their hearts that did them in and not the quake itself.
this all sounds like a government or WSL/Slater wave pool conspiracy .
Would of been quicker to jump out your window and shimmy down the bamboo scaffold holding the place up.
No shit. We stayed the night but bailed out to Singapore this afternoon. I didn’t want to wait around for the aftershocks to hit.
I’m trying to decipher your Dad’s motivations:
1.) Did he know it would only be six inches?
2.) Did he want to surf that tsunami vicariously through his young child?
3.) Was he hoping that the tsunami would carry you out to sea?
4.) Was it just an excuse to stop by that kick-ass donut shop?
5) His father was/ is the real Ashton?
I was in Mexico when that Godzilla sized one hit Japan and irradiated our ocean. It was incredibly weird, the ‘tsunami’ manifested itself as wild tidal swings – the water would suck out rapidly, to the point of the lowest low tide I’ve ever seen in that little zone, then it would flood in just as fast to the highest high point on the sand, sometimes spilling slightly over into the various structures lining the beach. It did this for probably 8 hours, no change in wave size really, just the same SW swell that was already there. ISO a scientist to tell me what the heck that’s all about.
It’s no Missile Alert but…
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At least you have a nearly fully charged phone.
You Maniacs!
You blew it up!
Ah, damn you Kim Jong Blong!
God damn you and your north koreans all to hell!
Ah… no?… It is… Dump???!!!
ok…
You Maniacs!
You blew it up!
Ah, damn you Kim Jong Blong!
God damn you and your north koreans all to hell!
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Probably why the primates didn’t give the NRA’s Charlton Heston a gun in the first place .
Hahaha!!!
So true!!!
Coos Bay sounds like a strip club on The Sopranos.
Man I wish it was!