Memo. Re: Tsunamis. Once they start, don't turn away

The Chilean quake this morning unleashed tsunamis across the Pacific Ocean. That issue is not in doubt. Large tsunamis have been experienced on Islands in the Pacific already, near New Zealand. New Zealand is closer to Chile than is Hawai'i, but some tv announcers in Hawai'i on CNN are treating the event, rhetorically, as if it were still not a certainty that the tsunami is coming.

Jeezus fucking christ...

Notice to CNN Reporters, Re: Tsunami: It is not a matter of "if." It is only a matter of "WHEN." It's coming. That it has not yet arrived does not have any relavance to the reality of the impending event. You are not going to be spared. Your listeners, your viewers are likely in for a hard time. Deal with it.

Strange how with respect to natural phenomena, the the lap-dog media persist in their corpoRat affiliation, as in "It's not "if" there is catastrophic global climate change occurring, it's "HOW MUCH" catastrophic change. Chuy...

There is NO DOUBT there will be a large tsunami rolling past and over some parts o f Hawai'i.

Oceanologists describe tsunamis as oceanic flash floods. I live in a country where we experience flash floods pretty regularly. They are amazing things. It is the most imagineable example of the inexorablilty of a force of nature. I am a surfer, and have known the power, the size, the scale of ocean. The mere idea of an oceanic flash-flood nearly makes my bowels spontaneously evacuate.

I have seen riparine flash-floods moving at 20 mph, bank to bank a quarter of a mile across, nine feet deep. It is exhilarating from the bluff safe above; but in it's path or in its grip, nothing could be more terrible. The water siezes EVERYTHING and mixes it into a swirling, tumbling, surging soup of treestumps and boulders 6 feet in diameter, and tons of river-rock, brush, and tangled strands of barb-wire fence a mile long. I've seen a Cadillac sedan --a '62 Cadillac sedan, one of the big, old, solid, heavy, all-steel variety-- captured by the river and swept away, spinning and tumbling...Mere flesh is unimaginably immaterial in that tumultuous muddle...

Naw. You don't want to be there, trust me on this.

Now magnify that to the scale of the sea!

Your blood should be now draining from your body, like the water off the beach, when the wave approaches...