[Kosh]

from our favorite religious nutcase, Pat Robertson.


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12851397/?GT1=8199

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - In another in a series of notable pronouncements, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says God told him storms and possibly a tsunami will hit America's coastline this year.

So I guess the president isn't the only one who hears voices in his head.

[karajorma]

Beats the Weather Channel though

[Ulala]

I tend to not believe weathermen (especially living in Oregon), and that includes religious weathermen.

[WeatherOp]

Beats the Weather Channel though

I fully agree on that one.

[aldo_14]

God told me it'll probably rain this week in Ecuador.

[Flipside]

God told me that, at some point this year, Glasgow will be cold.....

Honestly, saying the US will be hit by storms along the coast is like saying it's going to get a bit wet in the Amazon around Autumn. It happens every damn year...

[Kosh]

I tend to not believe weathermen (especially living in Oregon), and that includes religious weathermen.

Yeah. I remember days in Portland when they would say "It's going to rain a lot today", and yet for the whole day there wouldn't be a cloud in the sky.

[ilya]

A weatherman: wrong 90% of the time, and they still keep their jobs.

[Fineus]

Um.. don't storms hit the American coastline every year anyway?

Might as well say that God will make sure it's sunny in Egypt this year...

[Rictor]

Storms? On the US coast? Nostradamus would be proud.

[Nuclear1]

Storms? On the US coast? Nostradamus would be proud.

Well, at least said predictions and weather patterns are more reliable than average Indiana weather.

I swear to God, we had hail, snow, rain, full sunshine, and tornado conditions in the same damned two hours.

[Ford Prefect]

I'm actually surprised that Pat hasn't had more to say about what just happened to my state. Massachusetts just got raped by floods from nonstop rain. I figured he would have remarks about our being a hotbed of sodomy and elitism.

[IceFire]

from our favorite religious nutcase, Pat Robertson.


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12851397/?GT1=8199

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - In another in a series of notable pronouncements, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says God told him storms and possibly a tsunami will hit America's coastline this year.

So I guess the president isn't the only one who hears voices in his head.

Interesting....so like...real storms eh?

Actually the meteorologists have beaten this guy to the punch.  they could sue for copyright infringement (probably not).  They have been predicting a stronger than normal hurricane season yet again.  What is more concerning is that the New Orleans levies are not back in place...another strong storm and there will be literally nothing left.  There will be some heafty storms this season...I am worried.  In the Pacific they have already had stronger than average Typhoons and Cyclones early in the season and thats usually a good indication on the Atlantic.

As for a Tsunami...not impossible...but very unlikely.

[WeatherOp]

I myself am predicting a repeat of the 2004 season, hurricane wise anyways. And with the Gulf Loop Current allready gathering energy, I'm expecting another bad year for the GOM states.

A weatherman: wrong 90% of the time, and they still keep their jobs.

The urge to inflict bodily harm just rose with that post.

[Grug]

My God = Pi/e.

[Black Wolf]

You Yanks are actually pretty safe on the Tsunami front. Your most active fault would send a shockwave away from the coast, you've got the Mid Atlantic Ridge to the East, which is divergent, so it shouldn't be causing any kind of serious tsunami. Minor faulting could cause little ones, but really America's pretty safe on the Tsunami front - certainly there's nothing (short of a meteorite of course) that could cause a Boxing Day scale tsunami on the american coastline.

[Mr. Vega]

You Yanks are actually pretty safe on the Tsunami front. Your most active fault would send a shockwave away from the coast, you've got the Mid Atlantic Ridge to the East, which is divergent, so it shouldn't be causing any kind of serious tsunami. Minor faulting could cause little ones, but really America's pretty safe on the Tsunami front - certainly there's nothing (short of a meteorite of course) that could cause a Boxing Day scale tsunami on the american coastline.

Except for the Alaskan fault line. In 1962 there was a nice tsunami that wiped out a couple Californian towns.

[Shade]

Yeah, there's just the slight problem that the faultline that might send a tsunami away from the coast, might also send SF off in the same direction.

[NGTM-1R]

It isn't the faults here you have to worry about, anyways...it's the ones over by Japan.

[karajorma]

You Yanks are actually pretty safe on the Tsunami front. Your most active fault would send a shockwave away from the coast, you've got the Mid Atlantic Ridge to the East, which is divergent, so it shouldn't be causing any kind of serious tsunami. Minor faulting could cause little ones, but really America's pretty safe on the Tsunami front - certainly there's nothing (short of a meteorite of course) that could cause a Boxing Day scale tsunami on the american coastline.

Ignoring the possibility of La Palma triggering one of course

Scattered across the world’s oceans are a handful of rare geological time-bombs. Once unleashed they create an extraordinary phenomenon, a gigantic tidal wave, far bigger than any normal tsunami, able to cross oceans and ravage countries on the other side of the world. Only recently have scientists realised the next episode is likely to begin at the Canary Islands, off North Africa, where a wall of water will one day be created which will race across the entire Atlantic ocean at the speed of a jet airliner to devastate the east coast of the United States. America will have been struck by a mega-tsunami.