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[thebenedictine]

um kay apparently a TIDAL WAVE IS HEADING FOR ENGLAND

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=492533&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

edit: RUN FOR THE HILLS, CLAIRE

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[muffinsicon]

Fascinating. I'm going to go to the Science Pub on just that topic today.

[thebenedictine]

england, not oregon.

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people die while you drink gin.

[muffinsicon]

I'm just saying, with the number of pubs they have, they ought to have some pub talks about how to avoid tsunami.

The irony is that the home of pubs is in danger of tsunami while my pub is talking about how to deal with the dangers of tsunami.

I didn't mean to be insensitive. :-(

[thebenedictine]

oh, i'm just teasing you. just, like, warn your friends in england. the comments on that article make it seem like no one is really being warned about it. I found it on drudge...

[styger]

I'm pretty sure there's a legitimate evacuation occuring. The article you linked did say "Eight severe flood warnings issued by Environment Agency" and "Police on standby to evacuate homes", and I got the impression it was a big deal from the other article I read, though I'm having trouble finding it now.

[thebenedictine]

i hope you're right. I just keep looking on npr, waiting for the ap wire to say anything about it... bbc of course has a story. the daily mail story goes into more depth, with maps and everything, but really, when people in england are commenting 'i hadn't heard about this' is makes me worried. given, someone else also commented that the water is unseasonably low, so the surge would be 9 feet above ... low water, or something, and was thus skeptical. and you know, that combination of ignorance and skepticism makes me worry, just a bit.

[styger]

I think it's mostly because the people watching for tsunamis in that part of the world only really find out about it so many hours in advance. There are definitely research stations in the British Isles and western Europe that watch for tsunamis, but it's not like, for example, the Pacific where the wave might be starting days away. Most of the people seemed to be panicking because they only had 12-18 hours of warning. [I understand that's not a lot in the grand scale of things, or even if you're in a different part of town than your home/family, but it's probably enough time to rearrange your day to at least get out of the immediate area.]

Part of me also wonders how much of it might stem from relying on the internet for news, instead of the TV or the radio where they'll cut into the current broadcast for weather-related warnings. I'm sure when it started to get closer to the wire, though, the cops would be knocking on doors.

[thebenedictine]

also i have recurrent nightmares about tsunamis and evacuating. my dreams told me that vertical evacuation is the way to go, too, but usually the buildings are very high, and the wave is ever higher. think the wave from deep impact

http://www.countdown.org/end/pix/deepimpact.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVE81BHBD0E

specifically from 0:54 to 1:50

[thebenedictine]

and man oh man is this not the thing to hear about after brushing up on what exactly waterboarding is. aaahhhh don't wanna drown!