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This is one big storm away from being an ecological disaster.
by mempko 7y ago
This is one big storm away from being an ecological disaster.
- solstice 7y agoWhen is the storm season in that area?
- dba7dba 7y agoNov through March. But barely.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoFor some weird reason, I feel that a storm coating California's beaches with crude oil would almost seem like poetic justice.
- opinion-is-bad 7y agoUnlikely off California. Tsunami perhaps if the big one hits.
- paypalcust83 7y agoI've lived in California over 40 years. There are many storms every season. And your unicorn "big one" would likely be on-shore and produce no tsunami. I think you need a new nickname because your arrogant ignorance doesn't add anything of value here.
- pintxo 7y agoTsunamis are none events at sea: „ Tsunamis have a small wave height offshore, and a very long wavelength (often hundreds of kilometres long, whereas normal ocean waves have a wavelength of only 30 or 40 metres),[33] which is why they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a slight swell usually about 300 millimetres (12 in) above the normal sea surface.“ [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami
- paypalcust83 7y agoIt's already causing an ecological disaster called climate change. We must go net carbon negative now, or ecocide and omnicide will be certain. Spilling oil would be comparatively trivial.
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- clort 7y agoThese vessels can sit out or avoid storms just fine. They are not abandoned hulks, they have plenty of fuel onboard and an active crew. Weather systems in this area don't develop from nowhere, they originate in the far west and can be seen and their movement predicted a long time in advance. These ships can travel hundreds of miles in the days before a serious storm arrives where they were.
- koheripbal 7y ago... also, this area is not known for large swell storms.