"Michael Mcneil" wrote in message
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"Jon O'Rourke" wrote in message


"Gavin Staples" wrote in message
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http://www.theage.com.au/ftimages/20...344978599.html
This was the 1st wave of 6 I wonder what happened to this lot here.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...274363,00.html

The water was not so much high as that the coast was so low. Such waves
occur 1 every 10 seconds up here in a storm. But up here in the highter
latitudes we are used to high tides 6 or 7 times higher than that. And
our sea shores have developed to suit. We have berms piled up out of
years of drifts and storm and vegetation. Or where that has been
replaced, by sea walls.





I know what you mean Mike, but in that part of the world they seldom get
waves higher than a short pair of socks. I believe the latter waves were
very much bigger - and this was in Thailand. The other countries got much
larger ones. I have seen some of the film clips and it is really
distressing.

Gavin.