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Originally posted by CaptainCrunch@Dec 30 2004, 12:17 PM
there would never be enough to evacuate those communities, thirty minutes warning would be enough time to say a prayer and hope for the best.
Look at Mount St Helen's eruption people refused to leave and they had ample warning.
The only thing that would save us from massive causualties is that we tend to have better home construction then they have in the third world.
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I don't know about that Captain. How far inland did the water go? With a half hour head start you could out-walk those waves by a good distance. We've heard a lot of stories from Asia of people out-running the water with no warning at all.
You might lose your house and everything you own and it could take a minute to load Granny in the car but half an hour is quite a while to at least get out of the way.