I wonder how high the road deck on the bridge is above the water -- I'd guess 60ish feet and I believe the initial surge is splashing the bottom then settles about 15 feet under it. I definitely didn't notice back 10 years ago how much larger the second wave was compared to the first.
I heard from people who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and they said the second and third wave were much larger than the first one in that one also.
I've watched a few more videos and from certain angles the second wave coming in over the first is really obvious and clearly has a great deal more power -- it's difficult to see in smaller bays/ inlets but in large open areas it's quite clear. This video was played frequently back in 2011 and I always thought they were just pulling out of port and hitting the first wave in shallow water, but from the captions they are going over the second, third, and fourth waves. The ship is 3.5 miles offshore in 100 meters of water and the waves are estimated to already be 10+ meters which is amazing. There could be errors in the translation, but they do talk about encountering backwash from an earlier wave.
If I recall, that was the year of the severe heatwave/drought in Texas. It was the hottest summer/year ever in Dallas, i think. The average August high temp was something like 105 degrees and the average low was 85, I think.
The 2 poor bastards on bicycles, just pedaling along like all is fine: I do believe 2011 is still the hottest and driest year on record in Texas. Brutal.
Skip to the end for madness -- wave was caused by a land slide and was initially 100 meters/ 300 feet.
I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of the Lituya Bay mega-tsunami, but no video evidence of it exists. They only know the tsunami was over 500 meters because all the trees up to that height on a slope of land were obliterated/ripped out by the resulting wave. That would’ve been insane to watch. It was caused by a earthquake/landslide.
I’ve heard of it. I hope the folks in the cabin KC’s video showed had the good sense to go to safety. They seemed to ignore what was going on initially.
I was talking about the size of the wave that would've caused the damage in Lituya Bay (Alaska) which I think was back in the early 1900s or so. One eyewitness said that she saw a glacier that otherwise couldn't have been seen. Most scientists were saying it was because the force of the wave/quake/landslide actually moved/lifted the glacier (which sounds insane). I knew waves could get monstrous, but that one seemed like it was out of the movie Interstellar. lol.
