Tsunami to hit NZ soon

[mcfcfan]

Hi you all,

New Zealand has been issued a serious Tsunami warning, some low lying costal areas have been moved to high ground.It is due to hit at local time between 9.44am and 11.45am
It has already hit Samoa, two waves.Not sure of size.
Will keep you all posted.
Regards
Lee

[isawlogs]

Would apreciate it , I have a brother in law and his family that leave in Eastern Samoa .I have been looking on the net but can't seem to find a good link to find anything out  :-\.
Thanks Marcel

[Den Socling]

They are talking about 5.1 feet from sea level for islands around Samoa. The Shaky Isles are spared.

[mcfcfan]

Would apreciate it , I have a brother in law and his family that leave in Eastern Samoa .I have been looking on the net but can't seem to find a good link to find anything out  .
Thanks Marcel

Hi Marcel, try www.tvnz.co.nz for latest update.
Word is the wave has subsided somewhat before it got to NZ
Hope all are well in Samoa.
Lee

[mcfcfan]

here is another link.
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/damage-death-in-samoa-after-tsunami-3040121

[mcfcfan]

Tsunami warning was down graded after 40cm wave came asore but has now been reissued again, after a 1 meter (3ft 6 inch) detected at Raoul Island.
Latest reports say 14 die in Samoa, 10 foot wave??????????
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/tsunami-wave-comes-ashore-in-nz-3040447/video

[isawlogs]

We talked to the BIL , and family is sfe in the mountains . 

[mcfcfan]

We talked to the BIL , and family is sfe in the mountains . 
[/quote]

Glad to hear family are okay.I will be heading home soon to watch the news will update tomorrow if nothing else happens before then.

[isawlogs]

Thanks , He is in Figi , he talked to Zita ( his wife ) and infr=ormed us of there where abouts .

[mcfcfan]

http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/damage-death-in-samoa-after-tsunami-3040121

Latest from the NZ national news media, updated just before 3.00pm NZ time

[Ianab]

The Wave didn't reach NZ, or it was only about a foot surge when it did.

But over 150 dead in Samoa, at least three of them were New Zealanders. A local school group had to 'run for the hills' as their resort was wiped out and some local surfers rode out the surge in the ocean on their boards. Most of the dead were children or old people.

Scary stuff

Ian

[isawlogs]

Very scary , BIL has sent some news back and all of the family is ok , but many , many villages are wiped out ..

[Ianab]

Was interesting watching the news tonight with film crew on the ground.

They did highlight the difference in the relief effort.

American Samoa had FEMA and military all over the place making sure they didn't make the same mistakes as New Orleans. There was a navy ship, helicopters, C17s and emergency folks from Hawai helping out.

Samoa also had plenty of relief workers, but they all seemed to be locals. Just the local young men with flouro vests on the back of a truck. The visited locals that were bunking down in schools and churches that survived the flood. They visited a family that had survived and already build a shelter from the wreckage of their old house in a banana plantation. The guys on the truck dropped of some food, water and blankets and they were fine.

NZ had sent up an Orion to search for folks washed out to sea, and a Hercules with supplies and medics and Air NZ has taken up supplies on commercial planes.

Was just interesting to see the 2 different relief efforts, both were working, But one relied on Govt and the other was grass roots using what they had. The other comment the reporter made, they had found no one complaining. There was a wait at the hospital, but people were getting treated. There were dead bodies, they got buried. People just made the best of things.

Ian