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March 11, 2011
Waiting for the Tsunami
I'm sitting at gate 72 at SFO waiting for the tsunami to hit. Fingers crossed that I'll get in the air before it hits.
Update: I made it home to CO. However, for the record, I really was about half-scared we'd be wiped out by a massive tsunami before we took off. The elevation of the SFO tarmac is, I would guess, about 6' - 10' above sea level. And CNN was streaming footage of Seal Rock (near Land's End SW of the Golden Gate bride) live on the internet.
Update 2: According to this site, the elevation of SFO is 13ft. So, this is about what I'd figured.
Posted by Rob Kiser on March 11, 2011 at 8:39 AM
Comments
Very clever. Some people wish they had someone who cared if they were in a tsunami path. :-)
Posted by: sl on March 11, 2011 at 9:33 AM
You assume that I said this in jest. I was, in fact, afraid that a tsunami would hit while I was on the plane. They are not very good at predicting the amplitude/magnitude of tsunamis and, yes, in retrospect, we were lucky and California didn't get a 30 ft tsunami like Japan. But that's all hindsight. At the time, it was a scary feeling and I wanted to get into the air.
Posted by: Rob Kiser 
on March 11, 2011 at 4:26 PM
Indeed.
Posted by: sl on March 12, 2011 at 1:46 AM