Tsunami Could Someday Wipe Out US East Coast

TheSync writes "The West Coast might not have all the fun anymore. Woods Hole scientists have discovered a potential for large-scale submarine slope failure and tsunami generation along the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast. Get your water-wings ready! "

Dateline: Redmond, WA

[3waygeek]

Bill Gates, upon hearing this news, is reportedly trying to obtain a thermonuclear device to detonate in the slide area, which will cause a tsunami which will devastate much of the US East Coast, including Raleigh-Durham, NC and Washington, DC.

By this, Gates hopes to kill two birds with one stone, destroying the US Department of Justice [usdoj.gov] and RedHat [redhat.com], a leading provider of the Linux operating system.

surfers of the apocalypse!

[Daala42]

wow. sounds like it's time to wax up the surfboard & head over to the east coast to catch the waves!
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why not the west coast?

[ChristTrekker]

Specifically, Puget Sound? Too bad Redmond is behind Lynnwood. Oh well, nothing valuable in Lynnwood anyway. Let 'er rip!

I live on the Elizabeth River

[The Queen]

This is not cool. Joke all you want, but I am quite concerned...I've dealt with flooded basements from Nor-easters but something like this is just icky.


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doesn't sound THAT bad

[nomadic]

I can't access the article (*cough*vbscript error*cough*) but the abstract doesn't make it sound too grim. So we'll get a little flooding, we've gotten it before. And maybe it will compel designers/architects/engineers to put a little ecological thought into home design and construction for a change.

I'm a Noreaster

[georgeha]

Rochester, New York, and I'd like to apologize for any basement flooding my yankee brethren have caused in the past.

George

Re:doesn't sound THAT bad

[unitron]

I live in Eastern N.C. where we've already experienced "a little flooding" last fall. If you'd been here for that you'd be taking a very different tone.

Could you avert a tsunami with lots of little ones

[georgeha]

I wonder if you could set off small explosives to stablilize that slope, generating lots of little tsunamis at low tide, but averting a catastrophic one. Start here [slashdot.org] for more info. George

Re:Tsunami could Someday Wipe Out US East Coast

[Yet Another Smith]

Its not like Hurricanes (with associated storm surge and winds) don't already clean up bits of the coast from time to time. Don't build on a barrier island, because the barrier is what gets hit. Duuuhhhh.

There's still hope! YES!

[silicon_synapse]

I just might get that ocean-front property in Arizona after all! Does that mean I get the Golden Gate too?


How am I supposed to hallucinate with all these swirling colors distracting me?