Red alert.
All Orange County, California beaches are closed this morning in the midst of a historically fantastic run of surf as a potentially deadly tsunami is making its way east from the South Pacific.
The tsunami, or “harbor wave” in Japanese, was unleashed near Tonga when a large underwater volcano exploded, setting off earthquakes and showering the island with ash.
Japan instantly released a harbor wave warning for its islands, “Japan’s Meteorological Agency has issued a tsunami warning for the southern Amami island and Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture and a tsunami advisory for all coastal areas facing the Pacific Ocean. A three-meter tsunami is expected to reach Japan following an undersea volcanic eruption off the Pacific nation of Tonga.”
Laguna Beach, and the rest of Orange County, were quick to follow suit, declaring, “A tsunami advisory has been issued by the National Tsunami Warning Center for the Orange County coast. All beaches and boardwalks are closed until further notice – please stay out of the water and away from the shore.”
Scary but…
…where’s Ben Gravy?
More as the story develops.
Ben gravy was on the west coast literally in the water when it was meant to arrive, he then posted the episode immediately. He couldn’t have been more on point. try doing some research Chas, actually don’t do research, keep doing what you’re doing, that’s why I’m here. Facts are boring aren’t they Chas
Me, unvaxxed, just got over it. Lasted about 10 days so a bit harder for me than others are reporting. My wife and kids (all pure blood) did not get it. As said above, it’s hit or miss vaxxed or not.
Here’s some boats at the Tutukaka marina just down the road from my place. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
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About 20 got clipped around the ear’oles…
Or 30, depending on who’s insurance claims ya believe……
Now there’s reports of another huge explosion and another tsunami warning.
Derek about to get whooped!! https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
He’ll be on the prowl down at the bowlo.
Stay down here while holding.
Maintain flowstate. Keep eyes on prize.
Uploads giving me hassles
Waste of time fishing for a week after this. Go surf !
I have to try locate $100 k worth of gear out there.
Have a strong suspicion it’s gonna be a shit show.
Tropical beaches in a few weeks.
Ahh, matey. Bummer. Yea, been there done that.
Hope they were set deep….. good luck.
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Back in my day there were no tsunamis!
That volcano is in the Ha’apai Group which is where we went with J____ D____ and T____ M_____ and K_____ S_____ and T_______ V______ C______ and J_____ B______ in the 1990s.
We were on K______ which is 40 miles from where that sucker went off.
This one might have been even bigger than Krakatoa which released 200 megatonnes of energy which is 2000 pounds of TNT X 1,000,000 X 200 = kaboom!
(Krakatoa was east of Java, by the way. And 8/28/ is the same date as my birthday, and J___ B___ and M____ L____ K____’s “I had a dream” speech)
The air disruption from the Papa Oo Mow Mow Ha’apai volcano was measured in Miami, FFS.
This morning I thanked G____ for sending some L_____ S_____samples and asked if L_____ went to H_____ on his f_____ to tap into some of that energy.
No response as of yet.
A friend near Savu Savu said they could feel vibrations for an hour, 500 miles from the thing.
I hope T______ and B______are okay.
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some damage in northland overnight here in NZ. Tutukaka harbour got some wild surges (on top of the cyclone cody swell), a few boats written off etc. no tsunami sirens or text warnings sent out for this one weirdly… if you hadn’t been online or watching the news (out on your boat for eg) you would have had no idea.
Heh, just saw the article on Stuff. There’ll be a few red faces at Civil Defence I bet.
Yeah, I don’t get it. We had a few of those emergency phone blasts over less dangerous stuff.
It’s the day after Jacinda’s wedding booze up.
The decision making button-pushers were all hungover…
that would explain the 3pm presser.
I saw that, my family is north of there, they said the ocean surged but sounds like it funneled into tutukaka. I love that coastline
Elvis Presley. #neverforget
I waxed up my gun for the OC Eddie.
IT’S ON!!!
Careful, you may give him an idea for a new story (or series of stories). He’ll figure out a way to make it just barely surf-adjacent.
I’m shocked that while I’ve seen PR elsewhere for a book he’s got out in March I haven’t heard a word about it on the podcast or here. (I don’t read everything here, but I figured he’d be shilling it too hard to miss. I still told my library to buy it.) The book is nominally about robbing banks, but I can see both bank robbery and a miserable death on the toilet as logical outcomes from a life of surfing.
Went down to watch last night but couldn’t see anything happening as there’s already an ok sized swell running.
What’s that word for being disappointed by avoiding tragedy?
Weirdo
drama queen
Sociopath?
We got it at about 1 am
You would’ve been at least a few hours later…
Half the residents of OC beach cities would just say it’s a tsunami hoax even if they saw a thirty foot wave on the horizon.
The other half would want guv home detention for a year. For everyones safety, especially the children.
“Potentially deadly”? Perhaps, but mostly sounds like Chas has been studying hard at clickbait school
Just saw this boat get pinned under the dock trying to get back into it’s slip with customers onboard. Damage but no injuries. They got lucky. They stacked into fuel and high voltage services that run under the pier. Nothing ruptured. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
What’s that guy doing off the starboard side ?
Mark Healey goofing off for the Gram. https://youtu.be/5QsqCn_Kutg
There isn’t anyone on the starboard side.
He’s already jumped off.
Looks like the guy on the port side is just hanging out for the fun of it, maybe about to go for a swim like his mate.
P.S.
Beer’s good for all occasions, but only drink PORT if it’s the last thing LEFT…
(That’s an easy way to remember it, and is when you’re facing forward)
That happened to me once
Pushed, no doubt.
We’ve had 4 pulses so far in Half Moon Bay harbor. Still active. 5ft swings over a few minutes.
Biggest surges seemed to top off just higher than king tides. Boats tied under the pier were crushed.
Pulse 5 hit as I was writing.
Wish i had 5 pulses in me. Normally I’m flaccid after 1.
Tsunami warning this morning for Hawaii. Looking at the ocean from our lanai, everything looks normal, and there were no tsunami alarms sounded. If there was anything here worth mentioning about it, I’ll hear it through the coconut wireless.
They issued one for nz but downgraded it not long after. Seems the energy blasted to the north. Pretty impressive – approx 12 hours from Tonga to Nor Cal.
Maybe passed Hawaii in darkness and only affecting South facing beaches/reefs ?
Dam, we just got walloped again. More than 4hrs after the first. Tide is much lower now so it didn’t threaten to overrun the harbor, just strong currents and boils
Of course, none of these warnings apply to those unvaxxed.
Only gene-altered, microchipped plebes need pay any attention.
The unvaxxed are all advised to stand down and stand by to await further instructions from todays trump rally in Arizona.
The vaxxed are in home, masked, waiting for instructions on high er Fauci.
I’m vaxxed and at home, but not masked, and I’ll be out and about today, as usual. Your comment is still funny. Also, fuck Fauci. There are many reasons why people are vaxxed and why people are unvaxxed. It doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with intelligence, gullibility, or political beliefs.
Wise words.
Most people had faith they were doing the right thing.
Peace.
Meanwhile, I’ve noticed no negative affects at all, and can travel to and from the mainland to visit my 80+ years old parents (both of whom have health issues) quickly. Probably wouldn’t have gotten the jab, if it wasn’t for them.
Aloha.
I guess it’s hit and miss
Like the bug.
Unvaxxed friends family had it last week.
Him nada, wife and kid minor symptoms.
Fair!
Proving to be a good idea
It’s on in four hours on Newsmax. I miss the Illuminati guy in the “blacks for Trump” shirt at every rally. It’s gonna be siick!
That’s great
News max is live on youtube
Thanks Sergei
We aren’t unvaxxed
Just sensible
Yea, yea righto, novac.
I’ve had plenty.
Of ones that work
I think they’re great actually
I just got another vax today. Free courtesy of the us govt. I collect them like stamps.
I donated mine to science.