I was at the beach yesterday, and the weirdist thing happend... [Archive]

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Task Force

07-16-09, 03:17 PM

well... I had my chair in the water. (was on a sandbar made by rocks.) and the tide was low...

Then the tide just went out 3 feet almost in afiew seconds... Like someone pulled the plug... and stayed out for acouple of seconds...

Then the tide rushed in and got about a half foot higher then went to normal...

:o
weird, I dont think any ships had anything to do with it ither.

geetrue

07-16-09, 03:21 PM

Have you been drinking again ? :)

Task Force

07-16-09, 03:23 PM

No... that was dowly... But this did happen... cause I was like WTFK!!!

I mean the water went down a good 2 1/2 ft.

CastleBravo

07-16-09, 03:26 PM

Maybe its that Blob thing!!?? OR just the nature of things?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_k6U_oZjL8II/SVasoGh3kBI/AAAAAAAABCs/MJO5sYzabQg/s400/020.jpg

Task Force

07-16-09, 03:30 PM

might be, but ive never seen the bay do that before...

SteamWake

07-16-09, 03:31 PM

That was Al Gore inhaling.

Task Force

07-16-09, 03:32 PM

he must have drowned then.:rotfl:

CastleBravo

07-16-09, 03:34 PM

That was Al Gore inhaling.

Belly flop.

Task Force

07-16-09, 03:43 PM

No, if he had done a belly flop, there would have been a tideal wave.:rotfl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKjAOBE9Xms

AVGWarhawk

07-16-09, 03:48 PM

Someone was screwing with a Sham-wow in your vicinity. :har:

Task Force

07-16-09, 03:52 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwRISkyV_B8
Wow, those things must realy work then.:o

I think the tide changeing made it happen...

AVGWarhawk

07-16-09, 03:56 PM

:har:

CastleBravo

07-16-09, 03:56 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwRISkyV_B8
Wow, those things must realy work then.:o

I think the tide changeing made it happen...

:har::har:Wow!! And I haven't even used it. :har::har:

Top notch..very funny!

antikristuseke

07-16-09, 04:34 PM

Aramike

07-16-09, 04:48 PM

Best version of the ShamWow commercial ever is this Jimmy Kimmel clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2X7VB-wkz8

Task Force

07-16-09, 04:56 PM

That must have been one hell of a wave makeing it go out like that on a flat day.:o
and keeping it out for a 1 min...
I myself blame it on the tide changeing, cause the tide was sarting to come back in...:yep: (tide was completly out.)

Letum

07-16-09, 05:20 PM

Can you link to a map of where you where?

Task Force

07-16-09, 05:22 PM

Err... kind of hard... near the chesapeak bay inlet... (mouth of the chesapeake bay...)

Im a google maps noob.

Letum

07-16-09, 05:27 PM

Ahh! yes, that looks like a great spot for wide tidal boars(sp?). That must be it.

ed: Tidal bores
ed2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_bore
ed3: Apparently Chesapeake Bay is also prone to weather related bores. That might be another cause if the weather was changing rapidly.

Task Force

07-16-09, 05:28 PM

yep. at first I thought about a tideal wave... cause of how the water went out... then it started to come in realy quick, but no wave.:rotfl:
or maby one of the monsters in my sig.

But seeing the water go down like that so quick was realy cool... ive never seen water drop 2 1/2 feet so fast, lol.

AVGWarhawk

07-16-09, 05:44 PM

I think it was a Hollywood CG graphic for the next Posiden Adventure. :yep:

Carotio

07-16-09, 06:39 PM

Funny, by that description, I instantly thought of the effect of a tsunami, then read the link by Letum about the tidal bore. Apparently a similar effect, but tricked by different reasons. I wasn't aware though that the tidal bore could be as fast as a tsunami.
Hm... learned something today... :DL

Task Force

07-16-09, 06:42 PM

yea... I also was amaised by it... maby it will happen tomorrow again when i venture to the beach...:DL

sharkbit

07-16-09, 09:40 PM

I remember reading when the tsunami hit Indonesia in 2005(?) that before it hit, the water receded quite a ways. A lot of people were caught out where the water was when the tsunami came in.

:)

CastleBravo

07-16-09, 09:42 PM

yea... I also was amaised by it... maby it will happen tomorrow again when i venture to the beach...:DL

Close your eyes and repeat...I believe...I believe...I believe...I believe. :)

Rilder

07-16-09, 10:24 PM

Someone was screwing with a Sham-wow in your vicinity. :har:

You know the Germans always make good stuff! (In before the lolwaffles)

Task Force

07-16-09, 10:33 PM

yea, im suprised that the plane companys havent tryed to kill oberon for all the 109s and 190s hese killed.:rotfl:

Rilder

07-16-09, 10:35 PM

Well you know the Germans make them good, it takes till the end of the runway before they explode! :rotfl:

Task Force

07-16-09, 10:44 PM

They do often... but the lolwaffle have moved to carriers...

SteamWake

07-17-09, 12:39 PM

Yea the tide changes in that part of the country are amazing.

I remember visiting eastport. Went to lunch. At that time the tops of the sailboat masts were more or less even with the top of the dock. They had long ladders you could climb down to the boat.

After lunch 2 or so hours we came out and Wow ! the decks of the boats were now almost even with the docks. The water level had risen nearly 15 feet in two hours :o

Theres also some cool whirlpools around there. Big enought to 'swallow' a telephone pole.

http://www.easternmaineimages.com/whirlpool.htm

--I didn't mind so much being caught in it, but I did resent having to row uphill to get out. Anonymous fisherman

:D

Task Force

07-17-09, 12:42 PM

yea, some intresting stuff happens in the atlanic.

Letum

07-17-09, 06:42 PM

interesting stuff happens in the Atlantic.

An excelent truism for these forums.

Task Force

07-17-09, 09:05 PM

lol, yea I was thinking the same thing.:lol:

Im also comeing up on my "ive been here for one year" mark... (joined of the 18th.)

geetrue

07-17-09, 09:32 PM

Takes too long to grab a picture but if you are on high speed look at these tide changes in the Bay of Fundy:
http://homepages.ius.edu/kforinas/ClassRefs/FUNDYBAY.html (http://homepages.ius.edu/kforinas/ClassRefs/FUNDYBAY.html)

Here are some pictures I took of high and low tides at the Bay of Fundy (between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia on the eastern shore of Canada). The Bay of Fundy has the worlds largest tides (up to 50 ft in some places) due to a resonance between the frequency of the tides and the natural frequency of the bay. Water in the bay happens to want to slosh back and forth with the same frequency as the tides (roughly six hours). The result is an extremely large change in the water levels between low and high tide.

(see link above for pictures)

Tidal Bore

because of the large tides when the tide changes from going out to coming in there is a surge of water which goes back up the various rivers and channels that lead into the Bay of Fundy. The pulse of water coming up the channel can be as high as a meter (this one was about 40 cim). The pictures are about 10 seconds apart, the second picture is with a zoom.

If I remember correctly Seattle was bad too ... I would go ashore level at the dock and come back and all I could see is the gangway going down to a dark submarine.

Shoot I couldn't even tell it was mine without the tall sail.