Tsunami Warning

[flit]

I live in Santa Cruz, but up on a nice solid cliff, so a tsunami is not a threat to me personally. I read about the warning this morning and merely thought, "So I won't go by the sea today." I was asleep when it happened. (Okay, that's a fair bet with me.) Brad works in Scotts Valley which is even higher and drier; about the only thing we worry

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[tersa]

I thought of you when I heard that Santa Cruz was one of the few affected places; I didn't know where your house was situated, though.

Glad to know you're okay. :)

[flit]

We're a mile or so from the coast, and up on a cliff (not even near the cliff's edge) so it's a good situation, natural disaster wise... a tsunami that threatened us would be VERY sadface because all of downtown would be deep underwater. :(

[eilonwey]

Glad to know you're okay. That's horrible about the photographer getting swept out to sea, even if they weren't acting very intelligently.

[flit]

I know! Being an object lesson is not how I would like to go out. :/

I am sort of holding out hope that he got swept back onto shore and is all right and just didn't tell the Coast Guard he was all right. It would be jerky but he'd still be alive, at least.

[amberley]

Thanks for the update, and the link to Maki.

arclight has good coverage of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant issues; he's a nuclear safety engineer in his day job so has been providing useful context for TEPCo's reports.

My friend who lives in Tokyo is fine, but was stuck at Narita airport for a while.

[flit]

Eek, glad to hear your friend is all right. I wish the earthquake had been as nice to Japan as the tsunami was to us. :(