Sea Wave Warning - The First 27 Minutes ?

Question

Assume all public wire and wireless communication centers
broadcast public instruction to prepare for fifty meter wave
due in 6 hours on seashore nearest reader. Citizens are
notified public roadway transport, within the next 30 minutes, will likely slow due bumper-to-bumper........ (Static Sounds)...
the land under reader shudders a few seconds and electric
power fails. No cellular, no Fax, no Internet. Outside come
the first raised voices of panic.

Can reader reach terrain or large structure higher than 50 meters sufficient to resist the crush of wreckage such wave will carry? Name a safe destination, how one expects to reach it.....................or has reader different agenda?

Answer 1

I live about four miles from a river and about ten from the coast. i think the worst would be dissipated by the time it got here so I think I would sandbag if possible and sit tight

Answer 2

I too live more than 50 m above sea level. However, I did train for a year or two with the New York Guard (not the National Guard,) who had contingency planning and training for a hurricane storm surge striking Long Island. This training was in place long before Katrina. I do not know enough about the conditions in New Orleans to make comparisoms. Our training assumed evacuating veryone to above the 30 metre level.

I'll agree that 27 minutes would not be long enough for effective deployment, but the US has got pretty good at long range forecasting and we expected 3 days notice, during which time all roads would be one way except for emergeny vehicles.

Contingencies included preplanned evavuation routes using school busses for the car-less, removal opf breakkdowns form the highway, reception centers on high ground etc.

Not saying it would be perfect, but at leat there was a plan

Answer 3

Living in Scotland, I'm already several meters above sea-level.
Sorry about the rest of yous.
Nobody can help, Mother Nature will have its way

Answer 4

dont want to even think about that one ,but the possibility is there , good question