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| yass | Mar 11 2011, 11:50 PM Post #31 |
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Originally published March 11, 2011 at 7:32 PM | Page modified March 11, 2011 at 7:35 PM Oregon marina destroyed in tsunami's wake At a California harbor, docks snapped apart like graham crackers. An Oregon marina with hundreds of boats was destroyed. At a California harbor, docks snapped apart like graham crackers. An Oregon marina with hundreds of boats was destroyed. And water surged across the lobbies of Hawaiian hotels as a house was swept out to sea. Thanks to a tsunami-warning system that kicked in minutes after a quake struck Japan, millions of people along the U.S. West Coast and Hawaii had time to prepare. One death has been linked to the tsunami on the West Coast — that of a man who was swept out to sea as he took pictures at the mouth of a river in Crescent City, Calif. But marinas and fishing harbors took a beating, pummeled by 8-foot waves. In California, Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in four counties. The first sirens began sounding across Hawaii late Thursday night as the tsunami raced across the Pacific at 500 mph. Police went through Waikiki warning tourists as hotels moved some to upper floors and others holed up in their cars. The tsunami struck Hawaii before dawn, tossing boats in Honolulu, rushing up on roadways and into hotel lobbies on the Big Island and flooding low-lying areas in Maui. In Southern Oregon, crashing waves trashed the Port of Brookings-Harbor. "All our docks have been destroyed," said Chris Cantwell, the port's operations supervisor. "We have boats on top of each other." The first surge hit the harbor at about 8:05 Friday morning, followed by six others by early Friday afternoon, Cantwell said. About nine boats from the fishing fleet got out Friday morning, but most of the other 300 boats were damaged or destroyed. "It's not pretty," Port Commissioner Jim Relaford said. To the south in Crescent City, Calif., water rushing into the harbor destroyed boats and ripped chunks off the wooden docks. "This is just devastating," retired millworker Ted Scott said. "I watched the docks bust apart. It buckled like a graham cracker." The harbor "looks like a giant vacuum sucked out all the docks," said Del Norte County Supervisor Mike Sullivan. "They're just gone." The good news, Sullivan said, is most of the commercial fleet got out. "The bad news is, what's left is trashed." Many of the boats sank. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014472120_westcoasttsunami11m.html |
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| yass | Mar 12 2011, 12:42 AM Post #32 |
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12 Mar, 2011, 10.09AM IST,PTI Japan in race to prevent meltdowns at 5 N-reactors TOKYO: Japan today scrambled hard to prevent meltdowns at its nuclear power plants, declaring a state of emergency at five atomic reactors and evacuating thousands of residents, as it launched a mammoth relief operation in its northeast devastated by a massive earthquake that likely left over 1,000 people dead. "This is the largest earthquake since the Meiji Era (1868-1912), and it is believed that more than 1,000 people have lost their lives," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said at a meeting at the emergency disaster headquarters, a day after the monster 8.9-magnitude tremor struck, unleashing a devastating tsunami. He expressed his government's determination to bring relief to the disaster-hit areas. In Fukushima Prefecture, there were reports that radiation 1,000 times above normal was detected in the control room of one nuclear plant, although officials said levels outside its gates were only eight times above normal and asserted that were no health hazards as of now. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said it issued an unprecedented order for the electricity firm running the atomic unit to open a valve at the plant to release pressure in the container housing the reactor following the powerful earthquake. The local government, acting on orders from Prime Minister Naoto Kan , instructed about 3,000 residents living within a 10-kilometer radius of the No. 1 nuclear plant in the region and within a 3-kilometer radius of the No. 2 plant to evacuate. A state of emergency was declared at two reactors at Japan's Daiichi and three units at its nearby Fukushima Daini site, media reports said. The National Police Agency was quoted by Kyodo as saying that the total number of those died and were unaccounted for in yesterday's catastrophic earthquake topped 1,000, as some areas suffered devastating damage mainly due to tsunami waves of up to 33-foot high. Four trains running in a coastal area of Miyagi and Iwate prefectures remained unaccounted for, the train operator said. It is not known how many people were aboard the trains that were running on East Japan Railway Co.'s Ofunato, Senseki and Kesennuma lines on the Pacific coast when the quake hit northern Japan. The company said earlier that another train on the Senseki Line was found derailed near Nobiru Station after the quake. The Miyagi prefectural police today rescued nine passengers from the train by helicopter, Kyodo said. The number of partially or completely destroyed buildings reached 3,400, while there 200 incidents of fire at quake-affected areas. Some 181 welfare facilities, including nursing homes, had been damaged. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/japan-races-to-prevent-meltdowns-at-5-n-reactors/articleshow/7684900.cms |
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| tulip | Mar 12 2011, 03:52 AM Post #33 |
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Thanks to everyone for all of your information and input. Thanks to Yass for first posting about the earthquake. I have been on GLP today - don't usually spend much time on there but felt the need to today. I just ordered some potassium iodide tablets from amazon just in case of radiation fallout reaching the east coast. It's so easy to get into major "freakout mode" while on GLP. This is all so overwhelming. Just found out that my niece is preggers and I suppose you can imagine how I feel about that. (This would usually be great news but not now.) I was at a Sportsman's Warehouse store today to get a few things for an upcoming scouting event and spied some huge water containers and food kits but didn't have the right vehicle to cart that stuff home. I am headed back there tomorrow for said items. I already have a food stash of canned goods, etc. I just wish that we had a secret underground tunnel in the back yard where we could hide when the FEMA trucks show up. I would rather die in my front yard than board ANY government vehicle. Last but certainly not least, my sincere positive thoughts and prayers go out to those effected by any of these terrible weather catastrophies all over the world, including Japan. We have friends in California and we are worried about them. I suppose we all have someone to worry about right now. I feel like I am wigging out but I just need to prepare, as we all need to do. Take care, everyone. Tulip |
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| yass | Mar 12 2011, 05:04 AM Post #34 |
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My pleasure, tulip. That's probably not a bad idea getting the potassium iodide tablets. I don't think I would have even thought of it. Yes, the glp affect... I know it well. Yikes! |
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| yass | Mar 12 2011, 05:58 AM Post #35 |
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Gov. Jerry Brown? Huh?? What decade are we in? What happened to Arnold? 
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