Tsunami, Great escape vehicles

[rocketman1]

Is it not a good idea to escape a coastal Tsunami threat by motorcycle or scooter. If I lived in Ohope , Opotiki, Whakatane , Gisborne, Mt Maunganui or any low lying coastal threatened communities I would buy a scooter to escape the possible threat of a huge tsunami. While the roads out, as we have recently seen, get totally blocked to stand still, and possibly swamped Mum and Dad are on the scooter and away.
Maybe two scooters, one for the kids. A crate on the back for cats and a bit of food , water. You would not have to rego or wof , as long as they operate. Great escape vehicles.
If enough people did this it would maybe free up the congestion for cars for the elderly and Mum and Dads and the wee kids, babies.
Seems logical to me .

[Dadpole]

I would pay good money to see that. Whole families on scooters as seen in many Asian countries - only in a panic, trying to carry furniture and tow the trailer and piloted by fuckwits exhibiting the usual driving standard seen in the area.

[rocketman1]

I would pay good money to see that. Whole families on scooters as seen in many Asian countries - only in a panic, trying to carry furniture and tow the trailer and piloted by fuckwits exhibiting the usual driving standard seen in the area.

Yeah, A Tsunami does not wait for those poor souls stuck in a traffic jam. Too late when you have driven half way to safety? then got stuck in a traffic jam, better get out and run fast. Just saying.

[pritch]

Motor scooters? A tsunami seems more like an occasion for one of those zombie apocolypse 650 singles.

[Laava]

Surely a bobber is the only appropriate machine for a tsunami situation?

[F5 Dave]

Surfboard. Just stand on your roof and wait a bit.

[Oakie]

Cheaper to buy a ladder and climb a tree as long as you're not right in the splash zone. Couldn't help notice in the Fukushima tsunami that the sturdy trees were still standing afterwards ... even many that were in the splash zone. Just find an old man pine and scramble up. But yes, when I still had my own bike that was going to be our escape method. Even had the getaway backpack all prepared.

[Dadpole]

Us poor folks can't afford coastal properties these days, so I will sit on my little hillside and watch the capitalist running dogs float past.....

[pritch]

As random as it may seem thinking about such things can be productive. I've seen advice in the US that people climbing up into the space above the ceiling to avoid rising water should take an axe. Too many have drowned trapped when the water kept rising.

There was also a family stuck up there because they could see snakes swimming in the water in their house. Hopefully we don't have to worry about that.

I live on a river bank a kilometer or so from the coast, unlikely but not impossible that a tsunami could come up the river, or a lahar come down. Can't do anything about either of those so it's no good worrying.