I knew of the earthquake in Japan (horrific), and the Tsunami potential here in CA. I had heard the emergency broadcast warnings, but was watching the notifications through a NOAA website for an actual prediction and if I should evacuate. No warning there.
What eventually rolled into San Francisco Bay a little over an hour past the predicted arrival was definitely something. I was on my boat for the first surge, and the brief video I shot after I ran up the dock of the early parts of the first surge, for about 5 seconds, showed what amounted to a Class 1 to Class 2 river flooding into the marina. A few minutes later, the video continues in a second segment, and is less dramatic, with the surge already dying down, and the third segment shows the mud being pulled off of the bottom of the marina and being flushed out under the dock. The second surge, which occured about 30 minutes later, is noticably less significant, and is shown in the video as the fourth segment taken from the mouth of the marina. Currents for at least the second surge were about 5 knots. Surges continued to occur throughout the day every 30 minutes or so, about 15 in total. Below is a roughly spliced video shot from my iphone.
So while Berkeley Marina was relatively unaffected, Santa Cruz Marina, in Southern California, was not so lucky -
What eventually rolled into San Francisco Bay a little over an hour past the predicted arrival was definitely something. I was on my boat for the first surge, and the brief video I shot after I ran up the dock of the early parts of the first surge, for about 5 seconds, showed what amounted to a Class 1 to Class 2 river flooding into the marina. A few minutes later, the video continues in a second segment, and is less dramatic, with the surge already dying down, and the third segment shows the mud being pulled off of the bottom of the marina and being flushed out under the dock. The second surge, which occured about 30 minutes later, is noticably less significant, and is shown in the video as the fourth segment taken from the mouth of the marina. Currents for at least the second surge were about 5 knots. Surges continued to occur throughout the day every 30 minutes or so, about 15 in total. Below is a roughly spliced video shot from my iphone.
So while Berkeley Marina was relatively unaffected, Santa Cruz Marina, in Southern California, was not so lucky -
