02-27-2010, 03:20 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
130 feet. Yeah, that would be insane. One of the largest waves ever, if it were actually that tall, I'd think? There'd be nothing left of the island.
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...%C3%B1a%29.jpg
http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Juan+Fe...43387&t=h&z=15
Looks like the mountains are pretty tall behind, but that little village would be gone.
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02-27-2010, 03:20 PM
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#102
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Franchise Player
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CNN guy calling someone on the beach idiotic for being down there right now, LOL.
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02-27-2010, 03:21 PM
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Took an arrow to the knee
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Toronto
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Originally Posted by photon
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Dharma-ville wouldn't stand a chance.
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02-27-2010, 03:22 PM
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#104
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: The Void between Darkness and Light
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Quote:
Originally Posted by oilers_fan
CNN guy calling someone on the beach idiotic for being down there right now, LOL.
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The wife and I are laughing pretty hard about that right now.
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02-27-2010, 03:25 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by oilers_fan
CNN guy calling someone on the beach idiotic for being down there right now, LOL.
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He's looting the beach!!!
For abandoned crack pipes...
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02-27-2010, 03:30 PM
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Retired
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Pacific Ocean
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Originally Posted by Ice
Its a south facing beach, right?
We did get a pretty good storm cell about an hour ago, so I wonder how they can determine stormy waters from tsunami waters.
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Yeah it is, I haven't heard anything about damage in the paper, probably the pier if anything. It usually gets pretty beat up during the winter swells
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02-27-2010, 03:40 PM
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#108
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Southern California
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Apparently there were two surges in Ventura Harbor, and the water exiting temporarily beached a couple of boats that were docked near an embankment. It sounds like the damage related to the tsuami is limited to watercraft. Also heard from friends in Marina Del Rey and the Long Beach area seeing surges.
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02-27-2010, 03:48 PM
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Took an arrow to the knee
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Toronto
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Sounds like nothing major will happen and they "dodged a bullet."
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02-27-2010, 04:11 PM
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#110
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Didn't turn on the news last night or surf the internet, showed up at the dive shop this morning to go play with the manta rays. Dude looked at me like I was mental.
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02-27-2010, 09:35 PM
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#111
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: 110
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Quote:
Originally Posted by T@T
Only someone in Vancouver would call this "barely rained at all"
Update, news just said a bouy measured a tsunami wave of 3.8 meters (15 feet) heading towards Hawaii  |
Well I'm from cinder dry Calgary, in Vancouver from the 12-20th and other than the 13th it never really rained during the day and was bright and sunny. No idea where the rain on the 14 and 16 was, must have been overnight.
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02-27-2010, 09:40 PM
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#112
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Hawaii is safe for my upcoming vacation.
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02-27-2010, 11:52 PM
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Appealing my suspension
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Just outside Enemy Lines
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Wow thats crazy, It was literally one year ago today that my wife and I landed in Santiago and spent an hour in the airport before going over to Buenos Aires to take a cruise back around to Val Pariso. Thankfully the infastructure in Chile is pretty good and that will keep the death toll a lot lower than in a country like Haiti.
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02-27-2010, 11:57 PM
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#114
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Americas hat
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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Wow thats crazy, It was literally one year ago today that my wife and I landed in Santiago and spent an hour in the airport before going over to Buenos Aires to take a cruise back around to Val Pariso. Thankfully the infastructure in Chile is pretty good and that will keep the death toll a lot lower than in a country like Haiti.
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So what you are saying is that YOU caused this!
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03-01-2010, 03:25 PM
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#115
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First Line Centre
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I still have family in Chile, Santiago specifically. It's such a beautiful country, it's so sad that it has earthquake problems. My family awoke in the middle of the night to the earthquake (which was half the magnitude of what it was at the epicentre 300km+ to the south around Concepcion). The cars were bouncing, they were bouncing, alarms went off and they thought the house would come down. I can only imagine how horrific it was for the people at the epicentre. Thankfully, my family is fine and the house only had very minor damage.
After Canada and the US, Chile and Brazil probably have the best infrastructure in all of the Americas, so Chile had that going for it. 700 victims at this time is what is really sad.
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03-02-2010, 03:24 PM
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#116
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Quake may have altered earth's axis, and shortened our days:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_482002.html
Richard Gross, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and colleagues calculated that Saturday's quake shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.
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03-09-2010, 02:06 PM
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#117
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by troutman
Quake may have altered earth's axis, and shortened our days:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_482002.html
Richard Gross, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and colleagues calculated that Saturday's quake shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second. |
Amazing how much damage this thing did!
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The magnitude-8.8 earthquake that rocked the west coast of Chile last month was violent enough to move the city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west and the capital, Santiago, about 11 inches to the west-southwest, researchers said.
The quake also shifted other parts of South America, as far apart as the Falkland Islands and Fortaleza, Brazil.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americ...ex.html?hpt=T2
I guess GPS isn't working so well these days in South America
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