Tsunami Warning for Pattaya

[Guest RichLB]

Due to strong storms out at sea, the Meteorology Department has issued a Tsunami Warning for Pattaya Bay for the next few days. The Pattaya Daily News reports that it is estimated there may be waves of up to 2 meters coming assure.

[Gaybutton]

Why didn't you post a link to the article? It predicts a storm surge, not a tsunami, but storm surges can be quite dangerous as well.

 

Storms do not cause tsunamis. Only earthquakes, landslides, and that sort of thing can do that.

 

But storm surges are also very powerful and can cause a great deal of damage and even deaths when they're strong enough. Just ask anyone who has ever experienced a hurricane.

 

Having lived in Florida most of my life, I've been through my share of tropical storms and hurricanes. Florida beaches are not noted for waves, but when these kinds of weather systems are on the way, now you get waves and invariably the crazies are out there on their surfboards and just as invariably, some are killed.

 

Storm surges can also cause severe rip tides that can pull swimmers right out toward the sea. Many die trying to fight them. There's no way. No human has the strength to overcome them. If you're ever caught in one, don't try to fight it. Let it pull you out. You won't be pulled out more than 100 yards or so, probably not even that much. When the force subsides, you swim perpendicular to it for about 50 to 100 feet, and then it's a fairly easy swim back to shore.

 

Storm surges are nothing to fool around with. Until this weather system passes, I wouldn't spend any time on the beach.

 

Here's the link:

 

Storm Surge Warning Issued After Pattaya Thunder Storm

[mahjongguy]

Thanks for the link, GB. Having read the article, I would say that they mis-used the term "storm surge".

 

A surge moves ahead of a tropical storm or hurricane and tends to come ashore en masse, similar in some ways to a tsunami. They can add as much as 15 feet to the tide level of the hour.

 

In this case, the warning was really about high surf, waves created by strong chaotic winds rather than the focused push of a swirling storm mass. These are the waves that sink many a small boat.

 

I pay attention to this stuff, not because I enjoy marine activities but because I live uncomfortably close to sea level.

[Guest RichLB]

Why didn't you post a link to the article? It predicts a storm surge, not a tsunami, but storm surges can be quite dangerous as well.

 

The simple answer is because I got the input from Google Alerts and then i couldn't find the article after I deleted it. Google Alerts headlined the warning as a Tsunami Warning. Most probably they thought that would get more attention than a Storm Surge warning.

[Gaybutton]

The bottom line, I think - - - today is not a good beach day.

[Guest lester1]

This has nothing to do with the misreporting of a storm warning for Pattaya. It is simply to do with the fact that various crucial English words have no known similar one in Thai.

Common examples include words and phrases such as.

Snowman

Exactly, as in 'I will meet you at exactly 7-00pm'

Drizzle, as in 'its just drizzling outside'

Refund

Slow down and stop, when used in a car approaching a red light.

Pedestrian Crossing

Change, when involved in the payment of a motorbike taxi.

 

Also, in the context of boy bars, there is much confusion over common English usage like:-

Turn the music DOWN, its too LOUD

Why arent they DANCING

I didnt ORDER that

So lets get this right; if I off you, you are happy to do ANYTHING