Tsunami Warning

[Jantar]

Any KBers still awake and living in low lying areas... Please turn on your radio right now.

A massive earthquake has occurred in the Pacific near Tonga and a tsunami warning is in place for New Zealand and Fiji.

[Big Dave]

CNN just advised they have downgraded the alert.

[Big Dave]

whilst the BBC says Gisborne is on alert!

[Jantar]

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center have now removed New Zealand from the alert.

[Jantar]

Here's the quake that caused it. http://www.geonet.org.nz/urz-drum.html
The quake will roll off the drum around 03:00 am tomorrow.

[Big Dave]

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center have now removed New Zealand from the alert.

And I was just waxing up too.
Hope the islands are OK.

[SwanTiger]

Freaky shit, although I doubt that it would of been anything catostrophic (sp). It would of been fortunate if Auckland City was wiped out and they had to rebuild it with less arseholes and better roading/traffic systems.

[WildBoarMouse]

That'd be great... the ride from the Waitakere's to the city would be so much easier without all those people clogging the roads!

[Lou Girardin]

I can't help wondering how many people in risk areas knew this. Did they all get warning calls last night?

[sels1]

I can't help wondering how many people in risk areas knew this. Did they all get warning calls last night?

Police and CD were on alert, they wouldnt have hit the sirens until there was more evidence of an actual tsunami approaching

[Postie]

Police and CD were on alert, they wouldnt have hit the sirens until there was more evidence of an actual tsunami approaching
haha, you mean once they see a fucking HUGE wave towering above their heads

[Maha]

My money is on Winja having something to do with this.......:blip:
This is his best yet........ isnt he bigger than Jesus?
And only someone like that could make this happen.....:yes:

[Finn]

Police and CD were on alert, they wouldnt have hit the sirens until there was more evidence of an actual tsunami approaching

Unfortunatly, we don't have a Civil Devense. It's more a Dad's army and would be totaly ineffective in a disaster. If NZ was hit by a major disaster we'd be history. Just look at EQC for example. Their office is in a tall building in Wellington on reclaimed land. Good one.

However, I think Labour will destroy NZ long before a natural disaster.

[SwanTiger]

The news is (or was) true and can be read about in more detail here:http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10380224

I see that there is also an article questioning the response from Civil Defence. Am I mistaken in believing that not long ago an article was publicised emphasising the failure of C.D. in Auckland after one of their training exercises?



Newstalk ZB reported that several local district councils rang the station asking what they should be doing after the 3.30am quake off Tonga, which measured 7.8 on the Richter scale.

A tsunami warning was issued for New Zealand, Fiji and several other countries, but three hours after the quake there had still been no official word from Civil Defence.


WHY? because the fucking arseholes were still in bed with their electric blanket set on number 2. Try getting the arseholes out of bed for minor flooding around the district "Oh, um, hold on, oh, call the Fire Brigade!"

Instead, most C.D. officials would rather sit on $60,000 a year and look important.

In Auckland atleast.

[ManDownUnder]

Strange question I know but...

How's Tonga? Are those guys ok?

[limbimtimwim]

Strange question I know but...How's Tonga? Are those guys ok?"Whilst electricity is out in Tonga, there are no reports of major damage at this time." :) :)

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3657203a10,00.html

When I was walking home last night, I encounted a young woman carrying a seismograph. Odd in the first instance, but now very strange after this.

[denill]

At 7.9 on the Richter scale - a lot of kiwis are just bloody LUCKY, with no thanks whatsoever to the systems (that should be) in place to allow for warnings?????

I would prefer to go to high ground in the middle of the night for no reason than catch a Tsunami coming thru the front door. And it can happen, eh!!!!!!!!

[SwanTiger]

At 7.9 on the Richter scale - a lot of kiwis are just bloody LUCKY, with no thanks whatsoever to the systems (that should be) in place to allow for warnings?????

I would prefer to go to high ground in the middle of the night for no reason than catch a Tsunami coming thru the front door. And it can happen, eh!!!!!!!!

Indeed.

We live atop a hill over looking part of the ocean and two costal (flat) townships, Red Beach and Orewa. It would of been lovely to see all those moaning old farts washed away. On occasion the fog is so severe in the mornings that it looks as so a tidal wave has come in and wiped everything away.

Anyway, my point is.

When my fellow Maori brethren were still running around in flaxbush underwear killing white folk, a tidall wave raped one of their larger settlements out at Wenderholm.

So it is certainly possible.

[Lord Derosso]

I use to fish for years at Hendersons Bay 30 miles north of Kaitaia. Read some months ago they have evidence that it has the NZ record for height of a wave - over 100 feet. You wouldnt have a chance there because its flat sanddunes and then 100 metres flat tussock. They have build all over the dunes now...

Big Wellington/Wairarapa 1860's ? earthquake caused flooding in Lambton Quay, where I work, A huge wave hit the harbour entrance and further north it travelled up a river and wasted a vilage and many Maori and europeans killed.

Alert in the mid 1970's for Ninety Mile beach resulted in some locals getting their kits and waiting for the water to go out so they could go and get to the biggest shellfish beds... this was reported in the local Kaitaia paper. The wave did not arrive...

There was a 10 foot wave travelled up Whangarei harbour in the 1970's. I have a friend whom worked in the old Daletys warehouse located down by the old railway station and by the creek/river. At high tide he was working in the warehouse when the creek 'overflowed' and water came into his warehouse up to 5' deep. Freaked him right out !

What we do need to worry about are event created waves IE meteors as these are estimated to creat oceanwide waves as high as 2000 feet at landfall. There is evidence this sort of event, volcano eg, has caused such waves in our history as recent as 4000 years ago. Watch Deep Impact and then just go back to riding your bikes and worry about killer cars instead.

[Finn]

When my fellow Maori brethren were still running around in flaxbush underwear killing white folk

What do you mean "were", aren't they still doing this now?:innocent:

[Lou Girardin]

Police and CD were on alert, they wouldnt have hit the sirens until there was more evidence of an actual tsunami approaching

So we'd think it was a big Police chase?

[Big Dave]

Watch Deep Impact and then just go back to riding your bikes and worry about killer cars instead.


So the moral is: Life is a numbers game, and remember to work on a hill?

[Gforce]

Tsunami Again??????

[MidnightMike]

Here's the quake that caused it. http://www.geonet.org.nz/urz-drum.html
The quake will roll off the drum around 03:00 am tomorrow.

WTF? Im in the BOP and didnt feel shit. :zzzz:

[Brett]

However, I think Labour will destroy NZ long before a natural disaster.

Amen. Couldnt agree more. ALthough she would stop a tsunami...damn thing would pucker up and run back out to see if it saw her ...

[Mattie]

well we dont have to worry then do we, nuthins gonna hit nz wit helen clark here

[paturoa]

Talking to a mate at work today (cager), he lives up by Hellinsville, anyway gets a call early and has to go to work cos of the warning. He is driving into work listening to the radio and just as he is going over the causeway south of Te Atatu the radio says the time of arrival in NZ. Glances at his clock and duh!!!

[u4ea]

:mega: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,my feet are still dry......................... :mega: :wavey: :o

[Dont_die_wondering]

their warning was so late it was rediculous lmao aparently people were standing on the beach looking at the ocean.....and gathering around having a look lol........doesnt matter if the warning was on time and their was actually a tsunami.. as most did opposite to what was advised... *shrugs* have they succesfully warned anyone of a tsunami yet?

[Lord Derosso]

Thought I might at well post a picture of what Wellington Harbour would look like if a meteor struck the earths crust.. of course the ground 'wave' would almost surely be travelling the other way and the height is too high but the photos cool anyway... the other one I entitled .. Entrance to Middle Earth.
Not nuch to do with biking but I suppose we should have plans. If the birdflu hits, my bike is part of one of our plans to be able to escape the city via certain backroads to get to family further north so perhaps local riders could think about this seriously. Remember Wellington is a bottlehead if the Hutt motorway is destroyed and covered by slips. One place I worked the boss even had his launch as an option to get over to the Hutt Valley.

[grego]

do you think with all the modern technology it would be possible that somewhere somebody could press a few buttons and whoever lives in a designated danger aerea would get their phone ringing and a recorded message telling them something like: "get the fuck out a there a tsunami is coming" (Or the comies or whatever the dangers are)?????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????

[Lord Derosso]

Did you see those surfer dorks on TV? Went down to the beach to ride the wave. Tsunamis are not normal sea waves. The bandwidth of the 'wave' means they have the WHOLE of the nearby ocean behind them, thats why they do so much damage.

[grego]

re # 666 (you like this one)
Last week I got my near new bike back from the shop, all fixed after my accident end of Jan. The mechanico said to me:" All yours, take it around the block to see how she feels" !!
"Fuck off" , I replied, "YOU take it around the block first, you fixed it."!!!!! He grinns, gets his brainbucket and takes it for a spinn. "All good" he says when he comes back.

I get my gear on and straddle the bike first time after nearly 3 months, a quick looksy down on to the tacho: 666km !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
"""THE BEAST IS BACK """ I am on the road again

[RT527]

Yup talk about late warnings, being in the fire service has its advantages, although I don`t exactly know what we could have done cept try and get the trucks to high ground.....anyways pager goes off at 5 40 am with a warning of a possible tsunami which continues ...no response needed just an advisory....wtf wouldnt it be better to have the people in place just in case, I know i wouldnt have minded!!!.
Anyway after watching the tv for a while i make a decision to go to work and not long after i arrive at around 7 20 am pager goes off .....tsunami warning has been cancelled!!!.
I later heard in the news that it was cancelled/downgraded at 5 30 am .
again wtf ,I nearly made the decision to not go to work on something that was downgraded b4 i even woke up, would have lost a days wages too, not to mention piss the boss off.:slap: :brick:

[Jamezo]

One place I worked the boss even had his launch as an option to get over to the Hutt Valley.

People WANT to get to the Hutt Valley in the event of a pandemic?

I'd rather take my chances with bird flu than the syphilictic bogans occupying this place.

[Lord Derosso]

Read the thread. We are talking about the BIG ONE. Oh, sorry, I am off the KB's dick's thread now.

No, when, not if, the BIG one hits Wellington its very likely road access would become very limited and the Hutt HW would be seriously effected by slips. The boat would be used to ferry staff whom live in the Hutt valley. Thats if of course it survives any tsunami created by the BIG ONE. However, yes its true that I have discussed with my flatmate the possible use of the bike to escape via certain backroads to get north and out of the city in the event of anarcy, duck flu, his lady ex finding him and other major disasters.

[Hitcher]

From Saturday's DominionPost.

[slimjim]

:corn: yup some one fucked up again,, i heard too that a few poeple did leave because of the news flash on tv:cool: