On Friday, we walked along the canal and down to the Army Museum. Those pictures will be shown in another post. My new camera will let me take up to 3 pictures and then it bolts them all together, giving some good landscape views.
We found Kayleen's true calling, as a priestess to worship at my feet. (lol)
We found a new area down by the museum to watch the sunset.
At 3:30 AM, we got a phone call from one of Kayleen's friends, telling us we better move to higher ground. We turned on the news, and sure enough, there was a tsunumi warning. We were evacuated vertically ( at or above the 3rd floor.) we checked out of the hotel, but stayed in our room. Security actuall would not let us out of our room after about 10:00 AM. Here is a video of the sirens going off, and police cars trying to clear the beach area. When the surge hit it was not immediatelyy noticable. Here is a picture of some rocks sticking out of the water about an hour before the surge hit.
This is a picture of the same area after the surge hit. This tsunami was more like going from low tide to high tide in a five minute time period, and then repeating that sequence 5 more times over the next 90 minutes.
The largest surge was the 3rd one to hit. Here is a short video of the waves over those same rocks.We changed our flight to Sunday, checked back into the hotel, and went for a walk. Again, the sunset was beautiful.
An interesting, but crazy day.
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I am very glad for the fact that it didn't turn into what it was reportedly or could have been but I am grateful for the experience. The things learned and felt during that time ... knowing we would have helped anyway we could afterwards. We are so blessed.
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