Storms hit Britain

[Handley_Page]

Opposite the sea?! Really? Do you take lodgers or B&Bs? I'd love to live by the sea, one street back and high enough to dodge the tsunami when La Palma falls into the sea and drowns America ( poor things )

Are you thinking of another Krakatoa ?

 

[stickygirl]

Are you thinking of another Krakatoa ?

Oh no, the geology is quite different, though the end result is similar. Krakatoa had that nasty superheated gas that made the collapsing debris float over the ocean on a bed of steam at a zillion miles an hour. The East coast will just get a 500+m high tsunami... well, a few of them. La Palma is going to fall into the sea in a hurry - Splosh! - but on a superhumungous scale.

 

[Handley_Page]

Oh no, the geology is quite different, though the end result is similar. Krakatoa had that nasty superheated gas that made the collapsing debris float over the ocean on a bed of steam at a zillion miles an hour. The East coast will just get a 500+m high tsunami... well, a few of them. La Palma is going to fall into the sea in a hurry - Splosh! - but on a super-humungous scale.

Please point me in the direction of further research.

 

[oggbashan]

Opposite the sea?! Really? Do you take lodgers or B&Bs? I'd love to live by the sea, one street back and high enough to dodge the tsunami when La Palma falls into the sea and drowns America ( poor things )

No lodgers or B&B. We downsized to it as our retirement home. What sold it to us was that there are sea views from every room except the study I'm in now. Even the kitchen sink faces the sea.

Between us and the beach is a road, then a gentle 10 metre slope to the beach huts, and about 2 metres below them is the highest tide mark.

For Handley:

Cumbre Vieja

https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~ashworth/webpages/g491/2003presentations/dougkolb/La Palma Web Page.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja

The suggestion, criticised by many, was:

Day et al; (1999),[6] Ward and Day (2001);[7] and Ward and Day (2005)[15] hypothesize that during an eruption at some unascertained future date, the western half of the Cumbre Vieja—approximately 500 km3 (5 x 1011 m3) with an estimated mass of 1.5 x 1015 kg—will catastrophically fail in a massive gravitational landslide and enter the Atlantic Ocean, generating a so-called 'mega-tsunami'. The debris will continue to travel along the ocean floor as a debris flow. Computer modelling indicates that the resulting initial wave may attain a local amplitude (height) in excess of 600 metres (2,000 ft) and an initial peak to peak height that approximates to 2 kilometres (1 mi), and travel at about 720 kilometres per hour (450 mph) (approximately the speed of a jet aircraft), inundating the African coast in about 1 hour, the southern coastlines of the British Isles in about 3.5 hours, and the eastern seaboard of North America in about 6 hours, by which time the initial wave will have subsided into a succession of smaller ones each about 30 metres (100 ft) to 60 metres (200 ft) high. These may surge to several hundred metres in height and be several kilometres apart while retaining their original speed. The models of Day et al; (1999),[6] Ward and Day (2001),[7] suggest that the event could inundate up to 25 kilometres (16 mi) inland. If the model is correct, then this scale of inundation would greatly damage or destroy cities along the entire North American eastern seaboard, including e.g. Boston, New York City, Miami, etc., and many other cities located near the Atlantic coast.

 

[stickygirl]

Please point me in the direction of further research.

Research? Who needs research when you have such fab animations from tv documentaries But then Krakatoa wasn't thought possible. I gather the sunsets were nice afterwards.

No lodgers or B&B. We downsized to it as our retirement home. What sold it to us was that there are sea views from every room except the study I'm in now. Even the kitchen sink faces the sea.

Between us and the beach is a road, then a gentle 10 metre slope to the beach huts, and about 2 metres below them is the highest tide mark.

12m sounds plenty. I'm not very big - you can't have downsized that much It sounds lovely

 

[Handley_Page]

I looked up La Palma on Wiki and I found it interesting. Waves that big would cause a very real problem.

In the interim period, HERE are some recent pictures of 'Storm Imogen', the one we are currently enjoying (if that's the right word).

Now might be a good time to whisper in the ear of the "deity of choice" on behalf of those closer to the western coasts; like Naoko.

 

[Bramblethorn]

The models of Day et al; (1999),[6] Ward and Day (2001),[7] suggest that the event could inundate up to 25 kilometres (16 mi) inland. If the model is correct, then this scale of inundation would greatly damage or destroy cities along the entire North American eastern seaboard, including e.g. Boston, New York City, Miami, etc., and many other cities located near the Atlantic coast.[/I]

And for those on the west coast there's the Cascadia fault: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone

 

[NotWise]

And for those on the west coast there's the Cascadia fault: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone

Oh pshaw. The Yellowstone Supervolcano will cover the center of North America in ash and throw the world into years of continuous winter that will threaten the continued existence of humanity, as did the Toba eruption 70,000 years ago.

Clearly there's no reason to go on. We should just write smut.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Oh pshaw. The Yellowstone Supervolcano will cover the center of North America in ash and throw the world into years of continuous winter that will threaten the continued existence of humanity, as did the Toba eruption 70,000 years ago.

And if you manage to avoid all those, you could just get taken out by an individually targeted meteorite. It's a cruel world.

Clearly there's no reason to go on. We should just write smut.

Seems reasonable.

 

[NotWise]

And if you manage to avoid all those, you could just get taken out by an individually targeted meteorite

Sigh.

It appears that after all these 10's of thousands of years, humanity has managed to gain just enough knowledge to foretell its own destruction.

In honor of our impending demise, I'll add to my new offering yet another paragraph of mindless humping. Unfortunately, there may be no-one left to read it.

(I think there was an earlier incident of someone hit by a meteorite. It went through a roof, hit a woman on the hip and produced a nasty bruise, but not death. And they recovered the meteorite. It wasn't a mysterious object. It was a chunk of hot metal.)

 

[NotWise]

In the interim period, HERE are some recent pictures of 'Storm Imogen', the one we are currently enjoying (if that's the right word).

Cool pictures.

 

[NaokoSmith]

In the interim period, HERE are some recent pictures of 'Storm Imogen', the one we are currently enjoying (if that's the right word).

Now might be a good time to whisper in the ear of the "deity of choice" on behalf of those closer to the western coasts; like Naoko.

For a minute, I thought you meant I was your "deity of choice" in whose shell-like you meant to whisper sweet nothings , but then I realised I am one of those who live close to the western coasts.

That lorry overturned on the M4 - that was just where I passed one a couple of years ago when they sent us out to teach in Swansea on a similar day of sturm und drang. I think they should install a sort of giant hammock/swing thing there so they can go 'upsydaisy!' and right the lorries when they get blown over there. Or not send people out to teach when the wind is so strong it can blow lorries over

We should just write smut.

Yayyy! let's write smut!

My garden is full of small branches and twigs after the high winds. The council are supposed to come and cut down some of the big branches on the stand of trees by my house (one of which has protected status). There are two very big boughs which have grown together and are rubbing on each other in a suggestive manner. They are right above my shed so I hope the council come and exercise some censorship on them before one of them falls off on it, but I suppose I will have to write a few more indignant emails to my local councillor before it actually happens

 

[Handley_Page]

For a minute, I thought you meant I was your "deity of choice" in whose shell-like you meant to whisper sweet nothings , but then I realised I am one of those who live close to the western coasts.

My garden is full of small branches and twigs after the high winds. The council are supposed to come and cut down some of the big branches on the stand of trees by my house (one of which has protected status). There are two very big boughs which have grown together and are rubbing on each other in a suggestive manner. They are right above my shed so I hope the council come and exercise some censorship on them before one of them falls off on it, but I suppose I will have to write a few more indignant emails to my local councillor before it actually happens

Yes, Duchess, that's why you were named.
Glad to hear all is well.

Crossed fingers on the crossed boughs!