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AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)
Tue Feb 28, 2012, 10:48 PM Feb 2012

Its coming ...next year.

Tsunami debris spreads halfway across Pacific

Lumber, boats and other debris ripped from Japanese coastal towns by tsunamis last year have spread across some 3,000 miles of the North Pacific, where they could wash ashore on remote islands north of Hawaii this winter.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimated the first bits of tsunami debris will make landfall soon on small atolls northwest of the main Hawaiian Islands. The rest of the debris was expected to reach the coasts of Oregon, Washington state, Alaska and Canada between March 2013 and March 2014.

NOAA's tsunami marine debris coordinator, Ruth Yender, told an online news conference Tuesday that agency workers were boarding Coast Guard flights that patrol the archipelago. NOAA also asked scientists stationed at Midway and other atolls to look for the debris.

Debris initially collected in a thick mass in the ocean after tsunamis dragged homes, boats, cars and other parts of daily life from coastal towns out to sea. Most likely sank not far from Japan's eastern coast.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/02/28/national/a004924S74.DTL#ixzz1nje3nDpq

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Its coming ...next year. (Original Post) AsahinaKimi Feb 2012 OP
Maybe we should invent a special cocktail..... Swamp Lover Feb 2012 #1
No it's got to be sake based. Initech Feb 2012 #3
We are a couple of little umbrellas away from a great Trash Tsunami Party!!!! Swamp Lover Feb 2012 #6
Damn that sounds good! zappaman Feb 2012 #8
That's quite a patient journey! arcane1 Feb 2012 #2
from the photos I have seen... AsahinaKimi Feb 2012 #4
Wow!!!! arcane1 Feb 2012 #5
Should we set up a website so we could return Arctic Dave Feb 2012 #7
I think I've heard similar ideas. I agree- the important thing to remember is respect. Warren DeMontague Feb 2012 #9

Initech

(100,029 posts)
3. No it's got to be sake based.
Tue Feb 28, 2012, 11:15 PM
Feb 2012

How about this: Malibu Rum + sake + pineapple juice + shaved coconut

zappaman

(20,606 posts)
8. Damn that sounds good!
Wed Feb 29, 2012, 01:58 AM
Feb 2012

But seriously, that is a lot of stuff that's going to be coming ashore.
Beachcombers are going to think they hit the motherlode when that starts washing up!

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
2. That's quite a patient journey!
Tue Feb 28, 2012, 11:06 PM
Feb 2012

I wonder what, if anything, will hit the shores of SF?

Hmm.. perhaps I don't want to know

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
5. Wow!!!!
Tue Feb 28, 2012, 11:35 PM
Feb 2012

That's amazing!

It would be even more amazing if there were people still living in there

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
9. I think I've heard similar ideas. I agree- the important thing to remember is respect.
Wed Feb 29, 2012, 02:02 AM
Feb 2012

These are people's families, lives, etc. that got washed away.

I think anything that can be done to get important items back home, is great.

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