Lets go to the beach & see the tsunami?
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Topic: Lets go to the beach & see the tsunami?
Posted By: BeLoved
Subject: Lets go to the beach & see the tsunami?
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:16am
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Would you go to the beach to see a tsunami?
I personally am a little shocked to hear that people took their kids to the beach to see a possible tsunami. Especially after seeing the devastation in Thailand, Sri Lanka etc. so many years ago now. There was a lady on the news last night who said "We worked out we could run to our car in about 10 minutes, so we could escape it" There she was at the beach with her kids? a wave even at "only" a metre high travelling at 1000kms per hour would be hard to escape one would think???? The sea can be so dangerous even when its calm let alone during a possible tsunami. I am just stunned that people would put themselves and their children in that kind of danger. I know it did not come to anything here but to see the destruction in Samoa just goes to show how bad things could of been if it hit here. |
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Posted By: clover
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:19am
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Me too, can't believe the stupidity. Yes it may have only been 1 metre high, but we're not talking about a single wave of 1 metre, we're talking about a possible wall of water, 1km long of 1 metre high. Absolutely crazy if you ask me. I didn't ever think it was going to hit but I certainly wasn't going to tempt fate.
I did think the woman who went to sit on the bench by the water dedicated to her husband who died 18 months ago was quite sweet though. |
Posted By: Babe
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:21am
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Oh ack I know its so irresponsible!!! We were all talking about it last night at mum and dads and the guys were working out the math - even if the wave had only been a metre high it would've been enough to knock people over and people on the beach could've been in serious damage of losing their lives!! -------------   
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Posted By: blondy
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:22am
Totally agree. I saw the footage of parents taking their children to watch the wave coming in and just couldn't believe it! Yes, the reports were that it wouldn't be that serious, but regardless, why on earth place your family in danger? Crazy! -------------  
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:24am
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Yeah it annoys me too. I mean fine if you want to go and kill yourself by being stupid but why bring kids into the equation? -------------  
 
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Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:26am
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Idiots, I would rather let my kids watch the footage ALIVE later on the news ------------- 
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Posted By: clover
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:33am
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Oh, and even if you only got knocked over by the 1 metre high wave, what about the sucking effect afterwards where you could well end up being kilometres out to sea?
Madness! |
Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:46am
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I thought it was madness myself. Quite frankly would have served them blardy well right if a decent wave had come in. Yeah sure the reports where that it wasn't going to be that serious but they would have gotten a heck of shock if it had a 6m wave like in Samoa.
As for 10 mins to the car....lady, you wouldn't have made if there had been a tsunami. idiots. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 11:51am
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What is it with some people?
Not for me..... If you want to go then go BUT don't take kids...IDOTS alright. |
Posted By: My3Sons
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 12:01pm
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IDIOTS!!! ------------- Mum to Mr 10, Mr 6 and Mr 4 
 
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Posted By: lisa85
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 12:29pm
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And once they get to the car (If they even made it!) Do they not factor in possible traffic jams due to all the other idiots with the same dumb ass plan? -------------  
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Posted By: AzzaNZ
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 12:36pm
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Its incredibly irresponsible.
If DP took our DD I might have had to drown him myself. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: T_Rex
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 12:43pm
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Personally, I'd have been interested to watch from a clifftop or somewhere, but on east cape thats easy to do. There are plenty of spots you could watch from and be perfectly safe as long as the wave wasn't 200m or more high. I certainly wouldn't be heading down to the sand!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 12:50pm
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There was a woman on the news who took her toddler and he was walking about 5m in from of her right on the waters edge - such a silly thing to do!
Also on the news there was a family with a picnic basket! Police said "There is a tsunami warning please turn around" and they said "oh we're just having lunch" C'mon!!!!!!!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: lemongirl
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 1:36pm
| Darwinism in action people! |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 1:42pm
| exactly. i find it quite insulting to the people of Samoa who ran for their lives, while people in NZ were standing at the beach saying "yu-huk, I'm gunna dun see me a wave" - yuk. very distasteful |
Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 1:49pm
except they had already bred |
lemongirl wrote:Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 1:53pm
It's Gods way of culling the stupid people  ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year  http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 1:55pm
Yeah but in fairness they took the kids with them, so they would still be removing themselves from the gene pool ------------- 
 
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Posted By: lemongirl
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 1:57pm
Seconded |
Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 2:05pm
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glad I'm not the only one who could not believe people who do that with their kids..and then at New Brighton Pier they said 'oh we can out run it? ... um ok..to where exactly? and it's not a pretty wave that travels at 2k an hour...ugh...stupid stupid people.. the CD guy said this happens every time there is a natural problem like this.. ! ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: GuestGuest
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 2:15pm
Wonder where this rates compared to smacking 
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 2:17pm
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Oh did you see the people who took their surfboards out?? ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: NewPhoenix
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 3:50pm
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 4:13pm
Glad someone said it, SNAP! Its not survival of the fittest, but demise of the stupid. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 5:10pm
I was actually thinking the very same thing today. They treated like it was a day out while people in Samoa were killed. What would these people do if a really big disaster hits? Will they be at the beach again waiting for the wave? Sitting on a fault line waiting for the next quake? I mean, seriously. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: my4beauties
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 5:47pm
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I was disgusted in the people that took their children to the beach to look as well. I don't understand where they are coming from!!! Even though we are well away from the beach in the Mount, we still headed for the hills, and packed the car and left in plenty of time. When you have a family you do everything you can to protect them, not put them in the face of danger! We didn't "wait and see" if the wave would arrive, it's ALWAYS better to be safe, than sorry. So disrespectful for the ones that lost their lives, and homes in Samoa and Tonga.
Even after the boxing day tsunami, people still don't comprehend the seriousness of a 1 metre wall of water! ------------- My babies: R (9),G (7), J (5) http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Mamma2N
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 6:09pm
I was thinking the same as well - and I was also extremely disappointed that the media interviewed these nit-wits, some of who were laughing and joking about how much of a let-down it was! All the while concerned friends and families would have been watching for any information they could muster. Now thats poor taste! |
Posted By: hannibal
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 7:57pm
| Crazy!!!! I had a work mate who wanted to take us admin staff down to the beach and leave us there ... |
Posted By: FionaO
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 7:59pm
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Equally disgusted, I think when they filmed those interviews they didn't realise how many people had lost lives - but to make light of it, is just so wrong and imagine waiting on a pier of all places to see a giant wave.
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 8:05pm
| the people that said how "disappointed" and "let down" they were, made me so upset. we have family in the cooks that were luckily spared from it all, but it is a tad close to home for a lot of our friends and family |
Posted By: BugTeeny
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 9:06pm
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Agreed.
The media can be incredibly irresponsible when it comes to reporting. But it goes to show the mentality of some. What I shudder to think (after the obvious "WTF, morons!" thoughts) is that NZ has an awesome reputation in the tourism industry. Imagine the thoughts running through tourists heads while they're watching our news coverage. 
Tacky. ------------- 
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Posted By: monikah
Date Posted: 01 October 2009 at 9:14pm
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i know its a bit ridiculous aye. yea nothing happened and it was almost guaranteed from the start the government were playing it safe but its still incredibly stupid. i think ppl dont realise that its not a 1m wave that would crash on the shore and dissipate again but a 1m high wave that is 1m above sea level for miles coming forward with a hell of a force that would just stop when it hits the shore. man ppl are thick. ------------- 
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Posted By: FionaO
Date Posted: 02 October 2009 at 1:19pm
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Ugh, how could they when you read stories like this:
That poor couple, my heart goes out to them, how do you move past such a horrific event http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/6136690/auckland-toddler-confirmed-dead-in-samoa/ - Tsunami -------------
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