Topic: Tsunami Hits Hawaii With Three-foot Waves

[sam]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100227-tsunami-hits-hawaii-after-huge-chile-earthquake/

Moving across the ocean at jetliner speeds, the first tsunami waves from Chile's magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Hawaii about 12 hours after the temblor, whose death toll in Chile has now grown to 214. (Chile Earthquake Pictures: Quake Spurs Tsunami Threat.)

[Rik]

I bet somebody tried to ride the wave.

[sam]

well I heard on the news last night that there was a guy but the firebrigade went and got him out.

[Rik]

I'm not surprised, there's always someone who has to try - and puts others' lives at risk in the process.

[sam]

yeah, numpty... but that's humans for you.

[Simon]

The fire brigade should have left him to it!  One less moron in the genepool wouldn't be a bad thing.

[Clive]

Tsunami with three-foot waves seems a bit of an oxymoron to me!     Waves that  size are quite normal around here! 

[Simon]

That's also true of the south coast, Clive.

[sam]

Tsunami with three-foot waves seems a bit of an oxymoron to me!     Waves that  size are quite normal around here! 

yeah but no toser ever bothers to go into that water.

[Rik]

It's the raw sewage that does it.

[Clive]

More like the surfers that seem to have completely taken over in recent years! 

[sam]

I wouldn't want to go into that sea.