A few weeks ago it was tornado alerts. Now we're under a tsunami advisory.
I've lived here all my life. This is the first time I remember either one.
It's certainly a crazy year weatherwise. And it's only February.
Posted by billawaboy (Member # 8182) on :
And I thought Global warming was supposed to lessen extreme weather, lol. Might be just getting more intense as they anticipate thus requiring warnings...
Chile is one of the big contributors to tsunamis in California. I wonder if anyone on the news will talk about why.
Posted by aspirit (Member # 7974) on :
By the way, what are you being told to do under the advisory?
Posted by Meredith (Member # 8368) on :
quote:By the way, what are you being told to do under the advisory?
It was only an advisory, not an alert, fortunately. They just said to stay off the beaches and away from the ocean. It was raining, anyway. How many people go to the beach during thunderstorms. No, wait, this is Southern California. Don't answer that.
It's been a little hard to find information, but apparently our "tsunami" was about one and a half feet the last I checked.
Posted by Pyre Dynasty (Member # 1947) on :
Well I hope things turn out okay for you. I was watching the news for half my shift, the other half I was facing away from the tv.
Posted by satate (Member # 8082) on :
I agree Meredith it has been a crazy year. My mom called me this morning to tell me about the huge earthquake in Chili and that it was supposed to cause tsunamis all the way to Japan. She was really worried because my step dad had to fly to Hawaii this weekend and was now stranded there and had to be evacuated to higher ground and couldn't fly back home as planned. It turned out the tsunami was only three feet or something and he's coming home tonight. Still, it was a bit of a scare.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
"Pay no attention to how cold it is outside, or how deep the snow is; remember, denying global warming is akin to Holocaust denial."
Posted by Meredith (Member # 8368) on :
I'm not quite sure how Global Warming could be responsible for an earthquake in Chile that caused a (very small) tsunami.
Posted by Dark Warrior (Member # 8822) on :
I am supposed to move to Hilo, Hawaii. Very glad that there was no damage there or suffering there.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
Mauna Loa is 13,679 feet high...I think you can get above even the fifty-foot waves.
Posted by Dark Warrior (Member # 8822) on :
I am looking at property in Mountain View/Puna so yes I would be safe. My comment was in relief for the town of Hilo where I would be working and just general relief for the people/homes on the coast.
Posted by Crystal Stevens (Member # 8006) on :
They said on the national news an earthquake--any earthquake--has nothing to do with global warming. I'm not saying they're right, but that's what they said.
Just thinkin' maybe there's a story of some sort to be written from a situation like this? Might be interesting <big shrug>.
Posted by billawaboy (Member # 8182) on :
I wuz thinkin o' tornadoes.
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
Global warming is strictly a surface phenomenon, unless it is affected by planetary outgassing (and earthquakes and volcanoes are ways for planets to outgas).
No amount of surface warming is going to have any affect at all on what goes on inside a planet. It's a matter of scale, and surface effects of any kind are infinitesimal when compared to the huge amount of planet there is beneath the surface.
So earthquakes and volcanoes and such may affect global warming, but they are certainly not affected by global warming.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
I imagine the sun going nova would have some affect on the internal structure of the planet...but I have no hard data on that.
Posted by Zero (Member # 3619) on :
Damn you, Robert!
I was going to make a very similar snarky remark!
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[This message has been edited by Zero (edited March 02, 2010).]
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
The sun going nova doesn't count as warming. That's more in the "burning to a crisp if not outright disintegrating" category.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
Here's something NASA claims the earthquake did do to the earth.
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
Yeah, that's pretty crazy. But it would take an 8.8 earthquake in a mountainous region (and the Andes are pretty high and massive mountains) to cause even that small a shift.
Posted by Pyre Dynasty (Member # 1947) on :
Don't worry the sun is going to expand far beyond the orbit of earth before it goes nova. (And my personal theory is that once it gets that big Jupiter is going to fall into it and ignite and set of a chain reaction that will wobble what used to be our solar system all around the milky way picking up more and more matter till we find ourselves at the center of a brand new black hole. Thus creating an unheard of binary black whole system that will effectively end this universe long before entropy has a chance to do it.) Now where's Doctor Who when you need him?
