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Yes, I saw the BBC2 programme last night, and what a dog's breakfast it was! They spent too much time on the hackneyed jittery, stacticky, false coloured camerawork and not enough on the science and simulations. So we know that some sort of tsunami would reach the south coast, but how high? I heard 75m, 7-10metres, and "the size of a two-storey house" all in the same programme. Perhaps they might have bothered to create a map of the likely efects of a best, medium, and worst-case scenario on the south coast?
Well, it may happen, but the odds are about the same as me being happy. The thing about Low Probability High impact events is that you'd have to be reaaly unlucky to witness one. But that said, I wonder what contingency plans exist for such an eventuality, and what would you do if you heard a tsunami was on its way?
Drown I expect
I'd mooch up onto Tunstall Hill with some binoculars and hope for the best.
Surf!
Surf
Dig out the surf board
ha ha ... snaked
You can't surf a tsunami. It's the wrong kind of wave.
Might be for you grom boy
1. Confirm where it was due to occur.
2. Check if that was also the same place I was due to be.
3. If the answer to the above was yes I would endeavour to move myself and my family to an area that would ensure the answer to the second point was no.
4. If unable to achieve 3 I would drown.
I would be totally safe.
This is painted about 20m downhill from my house here in NZ
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The debris in the wave would pulverise you.
So, your plan? what should you do? Head for the highest ground that you can find as quickly as possible, or if that isn't an option Evacuate High and hope for the best.
Might go for a bike ride if it was my day off
Nah ... you haven't seen my switchbacks or bottom turns... tight
bah.. I live in a natural geographical bowl.. we are 21 feet above sea level and less than a mile from the sea in two directions..
as long as the tsunami doesn't reach any higher than 85 feet above sea level we'll be ok..
Realistically I'd be getting my family up the hill to the north, if only to reach the excellent vantage point a couple of miles up the road
What tyres for a shed load of water ...
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If a tsnumami reaches this far, then planet Earth is well and truly fubared.
Sometimes the road isn't the quickest, or most direct route to high ground, and bear in mind that everyone else might be wanting to do the same thing at the same time. Once you've reached your safe ground you'll need to consider that you may be there for 48 hours while the series of tsunamis subsides and the flooding receeds. hopefully you'll have taken what you need to sustain yourself for that length of time, or longer, with you.
if my gaff gets underwater - aberdeens been obliterated - and cults - milltimber , and peterculter will all be gone and be under 85m of water and the only safe place left will be the cairngorms peaks.
Hey under prepaired people ... I'm voting early doors for ohno to be the first we eat.
Damn all the Chianti will spoil floating about like that
If you saw me, you wouldn't want to eat me! 🙂 I'd taste as my forum posts are...
What like Turkey you mean ... a bit boring 😀
It's not just the Canary Islands you need to watch...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunamis_affecting_the_British_Isles
[i]Well, it may happen, but the odds are about the same as me being happy. The thing about Low Probability High impact events is that you'd have to be reaaly unlucky to witness one. But that said, I wonder what contingency plans exist for such an eventuality, and what would you do if you heard a tsunami was on its way? [/i]
If it was to affect us, pretty much 95% of the UK population would be stuffed - we are 30 miles from the sea (as the crow flies) and about 600 feet up.
But I'm thinking of the more likely low-impact scenario of a 10m wave.
Hah, I live in East Anglia, what is high ground?
Lincoln?
The site above allows you to find your height above sea level.
63 metres for me (Cheltenham) with a nearby hill being 230 metres.
Pretty sure we would be ok 😀
I live on a hill too. I guess I'd see a rise in the value, given it would a/ still be standing and b/ have excellent sea views
You can't surf a tsunami. It's the wrong kind of wave.
I bet awesome surf matt could.
Well we have 3 Kayaks in the garden but given where we live I doubt I'll be bothered by it. though if the sea level rises it does mean the South Coast will be closer so a wee bit handier for getting across to that urop. Every cloud and all that..
I reckon I'd be safe here in Worcestershire.
I learned from> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunamis_affecting_the_British_Isles
that there's a place called Doggerland. If I wasn't so grown up and sensible, I'd probably find that amusing. 😐
I am about 100 miles from the sea so I think I would be ok. If pushed I would take a stroll to Clent which is approx. 300m above sea level.
I'd see you there lunge as that's where I'd probably go for my ride. Sausage sarnie at the cafe before heading home
They spent too much time on the hackneyed jittery, stacticky, false coloured camerawork and not enough on the science and simulations.
T'was ever thus.
I saw that programme too unfortunately. It's a wonder that any self-respecting disaster documentary producer would allow their programme to finish with the line 'But in the end, we just don't know what would happen'. So what was the point in the previous 60 minutes of wild conjecture, sensationalist computer graphics (how many times did they use the one with the wave bulging up from the sea) and ridiculous script?
Has anybody got a picture of the map?, my estimation would be that I'd have a nice water front property for a bit before it receeded as we're a bit up the mountain from the valley floor.
Once you've reached your safe ground you'll need to consider that you may be there for 48 hours while the series of tsunamis subsides and the flooding receeds. hopefully you'll have taken what you need to sustain yourself for that length of time, or longer, with you.
48 hours? You won't even dehydrate in that time. Unless it's a freak summer or very cold winter for 48 hours all you need is your underpants to avoid being arrested to indecent exposure (asuming theres a police person amongst the stranded and they have nothing more important to do).
Tsunami? I'd just bunny hop it.
I live on a hill too. I guess I'd see a rise in the value, given it would a/ still be standing and b/ have excellent sea views
I like your thinking!
I agree Dazh! They should have put me in charge of it.
Thisisnotaspoon: You'd probably not die in the first 48 hours on high ground (but don't discount hypothermia even in reasonably good weather) but your life would be more bearable with a Bug Out Bag and some supplies.
70+ miles from the sea and 500ft above sea level.
What Tsunami?
It it reaches us we will be living on a small string of islands and I will have a lovely beach front property!
We're about 250m. Party at mine! Unless it's snowing, you'll never get up the hill.
Just near Gloucester. If its overcast we get flooded. So prolly drown
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Northwind....
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Those of you who live at height would escape the immediate effects of a mega-tsunami, but soon you'd find yourselves having to accommodate homeless survivors. Oh and hope that the Dungeness nuclear power station had been decommissioned by then...
do you have a tin-foil hat in that bug-out-bag of yours 🙄
I watched the program, why don't we just slowly dismantle the volcano now and avoid the problem ?
Not sure it can get any blasted wetter around here after the last few "summers".
Exactly what I had to do in 2004 when I heard one was on the way and I was kitesurfing off the One Eye in Mauritius, panic, have a dread feeling in the pit of my stomach as I raced to gather my family together, to get them to high ground, then rang the UK to try and get some news as to what exactly we could expect, not easy on Boxing day.
The worse thing is the lack of news, how big, which direction, etc etc.
If you are alone, then the best place is out to sea, you hardly notice them, they have a very long wave length and only tend to surge, like the tide going out then coming in all in one go, experienced one in Japan once a long time ago, but not as scary was the 2004 one, which as it happened just passed us as a tidal surge being the wrong/right side of the island, the took the brunt up north.
Very scary though if you have dependants around, not nice at all.
I would play the song Fish Story and wait for the clever Japanese girl to sort it all out.
the coast will be a lot easier to get too and London will be destroyed beyond repair,...
its a win win for me 😀
No problem where I live, 70 miles inland, and around 210' above sea level, but I spend time down in South Hams, so provided I'm not in the pub in Beesands when it comes in I'd be ok, as the friends I stay with are 350' higher up near Start Point, so I could stand up there and watch the wave pass by.
It might not cause so much damage in Start Bay, as it faces east and Start Point would take most of the hit as the wave heads east.
Salcombe would be screwed, though...
So what would you do in the event of a mega-tsunami?
Just feel sorry for them, again.
However, if we had a mega-tidal wave here in the UK, now that might be a different story!
If a tsnumami reaches this far, then planet Earth is well and truly fubared.
You beat me to it, and yours was funnier!
I am about 100 miles from the sea
I don't think you do.
If it was windy too I'd go windsurfing.
Duck and cover, drop and roll or dodge and weave.... simples 🙂
I'm in Derbyshire very close to the furthest point from any UK coastline, though not terribly high up. I suspect I'd be heading a bit higher up - top of Crich tower should provide a good view of it all!
Well, at 600 miles from the ocean and living at 6000 ft. if one hits here, we are all, wherever we might be, definitely screwed. 😯
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I'm in the Highlands so probably ok. However anyone living in Inverness should know that there was a tsunami in the past that reached most of the way up Castle St.
sandbags, lots of sandbags