Showing posts with label SANTA CRUZ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SANTA CRUZ. Show all posts

Saturday, March 12, 2011

TSUNAMI: SANTA CRUZ CALIFORNIA

I sent an email to Greg at ELECTRIC SEAS knowing that he is currently on Okinawa Island in Japan. I was concerned to see how he survived the Earthquake and Tsunami there. I was surprised at his response. Every thing was OK in Okinawa. They did have a tsunami warning issued but, he did not  "even feel as much as a ripple" on his boat in the harbor there. That was not the case in Santa Cruz California. Where even some relatively small tsunami waves shows how destructive a force it really is:



And it's not only the waves that cause the damage: Capt Mike CAUTION: Videos contains strong language:




And sometimes Neptune mysteriously does protect some boats like the one here named "High Roller":