The Earth — A Living Planet The Asian Tsunami in Sri Lanka:
A Personal Experience. Living Planet, Chris Chapman,
[www.seed.slb.com]

Dr. Chapman wrote:

"Gently the sea went back to its previous
level and the hotel staff began to clean
up. But it continued to retreat for the
next 20 minutes or so and I began to realize
that something big was coming. The sea
level was now perhaps 7 m below normal.
Lillian again spoke to the hotel manager
who immediately got his staff out with
a megaphone advising people to leave
the beach. Many people had begun to go
down onto the beach out of curiosity."

The moral of this story is if you are on the beach in Hawaii,
on the Indian Ocean, on the Northwest US coast, and so forth
and something similar happens, it is time to get the "H" out
of there to high ground or, if not possible, at least to the
third floor of a reinforced concrete building. You do **not**
want to go out on the bottom of the nearshore exposed by
falling sea level out of curiosity, Also, take as many people
as you can with you.

Best Regards,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 10/11/2005 09:04AM by Paul H..