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You have 5 minutes until the tsunami hits.

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Originally posted by: randomlinh
my gf/wife/kids. my wallet. my phone. my backup drive. my camera bag. pretty much in that order.
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Nice! A gf and a wife. Playa.

In earth's final hour, you fess up and grab them both. I'm impressed.
 
In 5 minutes, I could grab a gallon of water, box of granola bars, a blanket, toiletry bag and a change of clothes.
 
i'd grab my camera and sit outside. then, i'd take a rapid sequence of pictures while thinking "man, this is gonna hurt!"
hopefully, someone would eventually find a useable memory with some good shots on it and think of how hardcore the photographer must have been 😉
 
I was waiting for the response, I would stay home and guard my possessions and my home with loaded firearms at every door and window. Waiting for looters.
 
Originally posted by: Aberforth
Originally posted by: Ticky
More precisely, you have 5 minuts until you need to hop in your car and drive away from the coast. Pretend you live next to the coast. As to why a tsunami, it was the best natural disaster I could think of where you have a good idea of the time-to-event. Substitute wild fire or meteor impact if you wish.
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lol...tsunami comes at 300 miles/hr and wipes out everything within 60 seconds upto 70 mile radius. The best thing to do is to go underground or stay above 200ft.
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I'm pretty sure you don't need to be above 200ft. Maybe 40 or 50.
 
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
my computer has a carrying case ready for this sort of situation. I would also get my dog, SO, GPS, food, water.
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This is definitely an instance where a good old map + map reading skills completely outweighs having a GPS with limited battery life.


Originally posted by: Abe Froman
I was waiting for the response, I would stay home and guard my possessions and my home with loaded firearms at every door and window. Waiting for looters.
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Thats retarded. I'd only have 3 firearms out, and the rest in the safe. Handgun for the wife, handgun for me, and either a rifle or the shotgun.
 
well always carry knife with me so i would have that, pick up external HD, old home videos, clothes, water/tuna, and try and find some floaties. he he and go out on my 4x4 truck, it's not as reliable, but i would take back roads instead of highway to evacuate.....
 
Originally posted by: Kev
Originally posted by: Aberforth
Originally posted by: Ticky
More precisely, you have 5 minuts until you need to hop in your car and drive away from the coast. Pretend you live next to the coast. As to why a tsunami, it was the best natural disaster I could think of where you have a good idea of the time-to-event. Substitute wild fire or meteor impact if you wish.
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lol...tsunami comes at 300 miles/hr and wipes out everything within 60 seconds upto 70 mile radius. The best thing to do is to go underground or stay above 200ft.
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I'm pretty sure you don't need to be above 200ft. Maybe 40 or 50.
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it's like 150 to 250ft...big ones almost empty the ocean.
 
Originally posted by: Kev
Originally posted by: Aberforth
Originally posted by: Ticky
More precisely, you have 5 minuts until you need to hop in your car and drive away from the coast. Pretend you live next to the coast. As to why a tsunami, it was the best natural disaster I could think of where you have a good idea of the time-to-event. Substitute wild fire or meteor impact if you wish.
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lol...tsunami comes at 300 miles/hr and wipes out everything within 60 seconds upto 70 mile radius. The best thing to do is to go underground or stay above 200ft.
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I'm pretty sure you don't need to be above 200ft. Maybe 40 or 50.
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really depends on the size of the wave

if one of the canary islands splits and falls into the sea the wave will be 200-300 feet tall when it hits the east coast (it allready has a massive crack in it and it could happen)

when Santorini erroupted back 10k BC or whatever the tidal wave it sent through the agean was huge as well
 
Originally posted by: Triumph
My bug-out bag. Jump on the dual-sport and I'm gone, knowing that I have everything I need for at least a couple of days.
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:thumbsup:

I have 5 days worth of supplies in my bug out bag, along with plenty of ammo.

 
Originally posted by: Aberforth
Originally posted by: Ticky
More precisely, you have 5 minuts until you need to hop in your car and drive away from the coast. Pretend you live next to the coast. As to why a tsunami, it was the best natural disaster I could think of where you have a good idea of the time-to-event. Substitute wild fire or meteor impact if you wish.
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lol...tsunami comes at 300 miles/hr and wipes out everything within 60 seconds upto 70 mile radius. The best thing to do is to go underground or stay above 200ft.
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I might be retarded, as I'm having trouble figuring this one out. A wave traveling at 300 miles per hour will, in one minute, destroy everything in a 70 mile radius... at 300 mph, the wave would travel 5 miles inland over the course of 60 seconds. How did the wave expand out to a 70 mile radius within 60 seconds without gaining a whole lot of speed at some point?

And, call me crazy, but if a giant wave comes, it seems the last place you would want to be is underground. Unless you're in a watertight chamber, you're going to get flooded out and drown. Even if you are in a watertight chamber, there's a chance that you have parked yourself under what is now a lake. Not terribly clever, that.
 
Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
Originally posted by: Aberforth
Originally posted by: Ticky
More precisely, you have 5 minuts until you need to hop in your car and drive away from the coast. Pretend you live next to the coast. As to why a tsunami, it was the best natural disaster I could think of where you have a good idea of the time-to-event. Substitute wild fire or meteor impact if you wish.
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lol...tsunami comes at 300 miles/hr and wipes out everything within 60 seconds upto 70 mile radius. The best thing to do is to go underground or stay above 200ft.
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I might be retarded, as I'm having trouble figuring this one out. A wave traveling at 300 miles per hour will, in one minute, destroy everything in a 70 mile radius... at 300 mph, the wave would travel 5 miles inland over the course of 60 seconds. How did the wave expand out to a 70 mile radius within 60 seconds without gaining a whole lot of speed at some point?

And, call me crazy, but if a giant wave comes, it seems the last place you would want to be is underground. Unless you're in a watertight chamber, you're going to get flooded out and drown. Even if you are in a watertight chamber, there's a chance that you have parked yourself under what is now a lake. Not terribly clever, that.
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There are different stages of a tsunami wave, just imagine one big splash of water that expands and just like a normal wave the tsunami wave goes back into the ocean, so both the stages are considered equally destructive. And this whole process takes around 50 seconds.

Standard tsunami safety guidelines warns us from running away since nobody can escape it, the best thing to do at that time would be to go underground or stay above 200ft where you are safe from water.
 
My cousin lives next to the coast, in his case it'd probably be his car to the top of the hill to watch it hit. There's a 200' cliff between him and the sea and the hill behind him is about 450' tall. So to take his place out it'd have to be absolutely massive. Though people just a mile north of him are pretty well screwed and his parking garage might take minor flooding damage, and cars parked on the street are likely to need a towel BAD.
 
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