Typical. TWC blew off and slept through the Hill Country floods near Kerrville, TX.
It badly damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant.
Cable television networks have been in a steady decline for a long time, but post-covid most of them have just turned into complete shit. Channel after channel it's just reality-show crap that gets more and more crass and vulgar and exploitative every year, fewer and fewer scripted series, and just the most shallow and superficial stuff possible. And that's true whether it's traditional networks, "news" networks, and former specialty networks - educational, sci-fi, history, movies, you name it. Streaming is really about the only way to go now.
Were you in deep water? If so you may not even notice it.
As a reference, the 2004 tsunami was caused by a 9.1 earthquake which is about three times as large (by total energy released) as an 8.8.
In fairness that isn’t weather.
I have wondered if a big ship with a large underwater surface area that is hit broadside by such a pressure gradient could be in trouble.
My mother and her parents were on an ocean liner that had departed Yokohama shortly before a tsunami from the 1923 7.9 Earthquake that killed 140,000 people hit Yokohama and Tokyo. My grandmother told me that because the liner was in deep water, the people on the ship didn't know they had passed over a tsunami. She said they only learned of it when the ship's captain told them about it, which he had learned from radio traffic. And she didn't learn how terrible it was until they arrived in Vancouver. That really surprised me as a young boy, but when I later learned in school about how tsunamis actually worked, I was already primed to believe it.
