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(46,570 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)malaise
(267,788 posts)earlier in the week but I could not understand - that video helps - this is a monster hurricane
bench scientist
(1,107 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,887 posts)but SO hard to imagine, or believe!!
lame54
(35,130 posts)That water is coming back
Probably pretty quickly
kentuck
(110,950 posts)It was the damnedest thing!
TeamPooka
(24,155 posts)the water from the beaches emptied and they started filming it instead of running to higher ground.
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)in the tsunami, fish were flopping around on the beach where there had been shallow water only moments before. Many local people ran to scoop up an easy catch and were engulfed when the huge wave came rushing back in .
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)Probably by Sunday afternoon. This was video'ed earlier today. The expert said it should not return like a tsunami.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)The side I was on suffered a huge surge. Folks on the other side later told me that all the water was gone during that time.
Trust me, it comes back.
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)after giant earthquakes caused massive tsunamis. The locals knew it was serious but the tourists flocked to the beaches out of curiousity.
SalviaBlue
(2,910 posts)I would run for the hills is I saw that
packman
(16,296 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)PatrickforO
(14,514 posts)Climate change producing storms so strong we can no longer predict their effects.
I'm thinking we need to send Senator Inhofe down to Miami. He can wait out on the beach until the hurricane comes in and then try to find a snowball...
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,884 posts)The storm system is an area of low air pressure. Like all low pressure systems in the northern hemisphere, it is rotating counterclockwise. As the air pressure drops, so does the weight of the atmosphere sitting on that part of the ocean. The sea level goes up beneath the hurricane. It's like a rising tide. Nearby water is pulled into that area of rising sea level, so the water level drops in the adjacent regions as the water goes to where it is wanted.
When the region of low air pressure passes, the air pressure will go back up, the weight of the air on the ocean beneath will increase, and the sea level will drop. As the sea level drops, the water will return to the nearby regions. The sea level in those nearby regions will increase again.
I think Bernoulli would have argued that as the reason. He was around in, what, the 18th century? I can't look it up right now.
In addition to Bernoulli, I think the professor would have offered this to Gilligan as the explanation.
It's not climate change, just physics.
A tsunami is caused by shifting plates in the earth's mantle (right? Again, I can't look it up now, due to my connection's being so slow.) It's a different thing entirely. That comes about from the propagation of a shock wave.
Just a guess.
JDC
(10,081 posts)tclambert
(11,080 posts)Like Bill O'Reilly said, "The tide comes in, the tide goes out. Nobody knows why."
JDC
(10,081 posts)CottonBear
(21,596 posts)That water's gonna come back fast.
yuiyoshida
(41,759 posts)Mariana
(14,847 posts)highplainsdem
(48,718 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,316 posts)showing the sea level way out from where it normally is on the beach at the complex where they live.
My husband and I have been there a couple of times ourselves, so I recognize what she is saying that
the water level on their beach seems very low!
And Bonaire is way south of the path of Irma, not far from the coast of South America.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)those countries got a whole lot larger
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)That is freakin crazy- WTF
Snackshack
(2,540 posts)...as it went out,... gradually. 📡
There won't be a tsunami 🌊.
kentuck
(110,950 posts)I cannot imagine that it would be gone forever?
Snackshack
(2,540 posts)Yet.
Once the center of the hurricane passes the water will come back as the backside of the storm rolls thru.
Reminds me of before a tsunami wave