On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:22:03 -0000, "Alisdair Gurney"
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"Roger Long" wrote in message
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This is certainly the strangest confirmable marine event I've ever heard
of. More pictures he

http://www.wcsh6.com/includes/tools/...?storyid=95015

Damage is worse than any storm in memory. Since it's my former hometown,
it is especially interesting.

Local sources do not indicate any seismic activity but there may simply be
a lag in reporting. A similar but smaller surge was reported in Cundys
Harbor. Both places are similar in having configurations that could
magnify surge effects and also in that both are more active at this time
of year than other nearby areas where surge might simply not have been
observed.

The Coast Guard says surge from a storm at sea but I give that no
creedance. The effects would be over a much larger area or these events
would be more common. My guess would be a large but slow underwater slide
of bottom sediments that didn't create much seismic vibration but sucked
the water down. It's still early though and more widespread damage
reports may come in. The geologists may also look back and find an event
they would have overlooked if not for the land reports.

Add another to my long list of reasons to prefer being anchored out than
tied to a dock.


What, anchored in the same stuff that's sliding?

Alisdair

Actually its more like off the continental shelf, down the continental
slope and into the abyss. Few anchor two hundred miles out. Drill rigs
maybe. These are landslides we are discussing. You might have trouble
getting an anchor to set on a steep hillside. I never tried it,
myself.

Casady

Richard Casady wrote:
On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:55:37 -0700, slide
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Wayne.B wrote:

I would conjecture that something like a large meteorite hitting the
water offshore could create a similar effect. The successive waves
of high and low water would be the outward spreading rings from the
impact, similar to that created by a stone thrown into the water. The
outer approaches to Boothbay Harbor may have served to focus and
intensify the waves in some way.
Good thought. Large meteorites aren't detectable by any means known to
modern man.

Meteorites show on radar, and are visible, if even as large as a grain
of sand. Just what makes the large ones harder to detect than tiny
ones? A fifty foot,estimated, one grazed the atmosphere but missed the
surface, and departed. Several photographs of the event have been
published. It was visible in broad daylight. Had it struck the earth,
the impact would have shown up on every seismograph on the ;planet.
Note that they are only meteorites after they hit. Before, they are
meteors, and will, if distant enough, be indetectable.



Geeze. I was being SARCASTIC for god's sake.

(Richard Casady) wrote in
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Meteorites show on radar, and are visible, if even as large as a grain
of sand.

ONLY if the radar antenna happens to be pointed exactly in the right
direction at the few seconds before impact. That's a pretty tall order of
coincidence. Chances of seeing it on radar are slim, at best.

If it's coming at us from overhead, above the radar's beamheight, you'll
never see it at all no matter where the damned antenna is pointing. They
don't point UP, even at the airport!

(Richard Casady) wrote in
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Actually its more like off the continental shelf, down the continental
slope and into the abyss. Few anchor two hundred miles out. Drill rigs
maybe. These are landslides we are discussing. You might have trouble
getting an anchor to set on a steep hillside. I never tried it,
myself.

Casady



On Lake Moultrie, a friend lost his anchor to a building, or maybe a fence,
this year. He was anchored out fishing in the lake and happened to be
right over one of the submerged towns I love to scan on sonar to see if I
can find the church steeples. Only thing we can figure is he hooked
something connected to the ground like a fence anchored with fence posts or
a house, barn, something too big to lift.

He kept hauling on the anchor line until the gunwale almost went under but
to no avail. He gave up and cut the line.

If you find an anchor hooked to the front porch, I know who it belongs
to...(c;]

I wonder if the limited area of the reported occurance indicates a
close proximity of the initiating event.

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I wonder if the limited area of the reported occurance indicates a
close proximity of the initiating event.

Yes, it was a undoubtedly a large nuclear submarine doing war games off
shore and surfacing at a steep angle. They practically breach like a huge
whale. They can make the exact wave train experienced in the harbor but
probably enlarged in height by the shape of it.

Wilbur Hubbard

On Nov 11, 3:37*pm, "Wilbur Hubbard"
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I wonder if the limited area of the reported occurance indicates a
close proximity of the initiating event.

Yes, it was a undoubtedly a large nuclear submarine doing war games off
shore and surfacing at a steep angle. They practically breach like a huge
whale. They can make the exact wave train experienced in the harbor but
probably enlarged in height by the shape of it.

Wilbur Hubbard

I'll have whatever you're having.

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:37:39 -0500, someone posting as Wilbur Hubbard
purportedly wrote:

whatever

you just pegged my stupid-meter

*plonk*

--
poking dumbasses in the forehead, till my finger hurts.

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On Nov 11, 3:37 pm, "Wilbur Hubbard"
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I wonder if the limited area of the reported occurance indicates a
close proximity of the initiating event.

Yes, it was a undoubtedly a large nuclear submarine doing war games off
shore and surfacing at a steep angle. They practically breach like a huge
whale. They can make the exact wave train experienced in the harbor but
probably enlarged in height by the shape of it.

Wilbur Hubbard

| I'll have whatever you're having.

I doubt you'll be able to understand it but he

http://www.iopan.gda.pl/oceanologia/48Ssoome.pdf

Wilbur Hubbard

"wordsmith" wrote in message
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:37:39 -0500, someone posting as Wilbur Hubbard
purportedly wrote:

whatever

you just pegged my stupid-meter

*plonk*


Your *dumb* meter is also pegged undoubtedly.

http://www.iopan.gda.pl/oceanologia/48Ssoome.pdf

Wilbur Hubbard