POA - Affected by tsunami warning?

[OPSnorkeler]

Just wondering what happened with the POA yesterday during the tsunami warnings. Does anyone know where she was and what she did?

[Wingtips56]

POA was on her overnight call at Nawiliwili, Kauai, but they took her out to sea around 1am to ride it out as a precaution. Smart thinking!

[angelsonefive]

POA was on her overnight call at Nawiliwili, Kauai, but they took her out to sea around 1am to ride it out as a precaution. Smart thinking!

Hey Wingtips; I bet the folks up your way weren't to thrilled with a tsunami warning either :eek::eek::eek: ..... I think once was enough for them.

[Wingtips56]

It wasn't just a warning.... the tsunami hit here, with repeated surges for about 10 hours. The harbor and commercial fishing docks are totally destroyed, with many boats sunk, 30+ damaged and more homeless. Millions in dollars-worth of damage and now lost livelihoods. One fatality.

 

The city was evacuated from Front (1rst) to 9th street, from 4am to 6pm. Lots of events canceled, but fortunately the physical damage was confined to the harbor. Downtown was destroyed by tsunami in 1964, so they take it very seriously here.

 

The harbor was partially wrecked by a tsunami surge in Nov. 2006; fortunately a $20 million rebuilding hadn't started yet, but now there is no place for what's left of the fleet to dock.

[drhry]

It wasn't just a warning.... the tsunami hit here, with repeated surges for about 10 hours. The harbor and commercial fishing docks are totally destroyed, with many boats sunk, 30+ damaged and more homeless. Millions in dollars-worth of damage and now lost livelihoods. One fatality.

 

The city was evacuated from Front (1rst) to 9th street, from 4am to 6pm. Lots of events canceled, but fortunately the physical damage was confined to the harbor. Downtown was destroyed by tsunami in 1964, so they take it very seriously here.

 

The harbor was partially wrecked by a tsunami surge in Nov. 2006; fortunately a $20 million rebuilding hadn't started yet, but now there is no place for what's left of the fleet to dock.

 

So sorry to hear of your area's damage had no idea any part of Ca rec'd so much damage. Thanks for the update hope everyone will be okay.

[angelsonefive]

It wasn't just a warning.... the tsunami hit here, with repeated surges for about 10 hours. The harbor and commercial fishing docks are totally destroyed, with many boats sunk, 30+ damaged and more homeless. Millions in dollars-worth of damage and now lost livelihoods. One fatality.

 

The city was evacuated from Front (1rst) to 9th street, from 4am to 6pm. Lots of events canceled, but fortunately the physical damage was confined to the harbor. Downtown was destroyed by tsunami in 1964, so they take it very seriously here.

 

The harbor was partially wrecked by a tsunami surge in Nov. 2006; fortunately a $20 million rebuilding hadn't started yet, but now there is no place for what's left of the fleet to dock.

I heard some docks got some damage, but didn't know it was that bad. With the jetty being built out of those huge cement (Jacks) there must be thousands of them, I wouldn't have thought it being bad. I do know there are warnings signs on the jetty about rouge waves though and I'm sure this would qualify.

[youngestof9]

oh Wingtips that's awful. I'm so sorry to hear :(

[Wingtips56]

We're the most tsunami-prone place on the West Coast because of the shape of the coastline and more, the undersea floor here. It amplifies the waves, so we got it worse than anywhere outside of Japan, with wave amplitutes twice or more higher than what touched Hawaii. The West Coast and Pacific Tsunami Warning Centers posted the amplitutes for the entire eastern shore of the Pacific + Hawaii, and we had the highest number. Lucky us, eh?

 

Glad I'm a little bit inland and up a hill at 175 foot elevation; high enough! But I'm headed downtown right now for a post-poned cooking class ... across the street from the bay shore. :eek:

 

Brookings, Ore, about 25 miles north also had heavy damage to their harbor and boats.

[Wingtips56]

I heard some docks got some damage, but didn't know it was that bad. With the jetty being built out of those huge cement (Jacks) there must be thousands of them, I wouldn't have thought it being bad. I do know there are warnings signs on the jetty about rouge waves though and I'm sure this would qualify.

 

The jetty helps, though more so with a different kind of wave. It was rebuilt after the 1964 disaster and is quite large. However yesterday and 2006 were the surge-type of tsunami, not what you picture as a big surfing wave. This was more like a big swirling river...the harbor empties out and then it just comes swirling back in with a steady flow, with all that debris. Not on the scale of what Japan saw, but like it, in that the water just keeps pushing on, not like a normal beach-wave on steroids. The surges here went on all day. One of our radio reporters eventually got an escort to go to the harbor around 2pm, and counted 4 surges in 40 minutes. She posted her iPhone video on the stations Facebook page. I don't know if it is still there as I don't have Facebook, but it was at www.facebook.com/kcrekpod