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Subj: Re: VE3WBZ > COWABUNGA DUDE!
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Hi Pete and all,
Now a 400' wall of canaries could prove interesting but sich a tidal wave
is a bit farfetched. It's not a wave but a bore, the ocean rises and
water rushes inland, it just keeps coming and coming rising as it pushes
onward. A good example would be what happens daily at the Reversing
Falls, more properly reversing rapids in the St. John River at St. John
NB. The river flows naturally only at low tide, as it comes in it
reverses quite violently and at high tide just sits there going nowhere,
the bay is higher than the river. The tidal bore in question of course
would be considerably higher and far more extensive reaching inland until
it meets something higher like a gigantic flood. You'll find me surfing
the interstate into the Alleghenny Mountains HT in hand, they have a
helluva repeater up there. Anyway it makes for a good episode in the
natural disaster series on The Discovery Channel and a movie... but I
prefer Japanese rubber monsters fighting over turf in downtown Tokyo.
On a slightly more serious note, the best place to be in this scenario is
on the open sea. In deep water the bump is barely noticable, when it
swells up in the shallows it's another story. Then there was The
Poopsidedown Adventure, MAD did it better than the movie. Actually that
wasn't a tidal wave that turned them turtle but a Hollywood sized rogue
wave. Under the right conditions one comes up suddenly and unexpectedly,
I remember a couple of years ago when one severely damaged a cruise ship,
caved it in pretty good and you know how BIG those ships are!
A 400 foot canary???
73 de Warren
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