[BC] tsunami-Honolulu TV

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I've never been there, but would be happy to go!

But, I understand the power stations are roughly at sea level, very  
near the shore.  In such a case, you shut down the engines so that  
they are not destroyed by ingesting sea water from the tsunami wave.   
Once the wave passes over the power station, you clean up, and restart.

If the engines ingest sea water, you either need a new engine, or a  
very expensive, very long term engine rebuilding.

The radio stations should have back-up power, out of range of any  
tsunami wave.

While the power company may have acted early, they acted in the best  
interests of the public in the long term.

--chip

On Feb 28, 2010, at 2:59 PM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 11
> From: "Jeff Bottalico" <jeffthereff at hawaii.rr.com>
>
> I find that unbelievable.  Will the territorial government do  
> anything about
> that????  Jeff
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Fuss" <lfuss2 at cox.net>
>
>> I watched KHNL/KGMB all morning online from Mississippi.
>> Pago Pago got hit several hours before Hawaii.  Surge was 2.2 feet,
>> which was minimal.  But frightened residents headed for the hills,
>> the memory of the Sept. 29 tsunami still fresh in their minds.
>>
>> On the downside, the imbeciles at the American Samoa Power Authority
>> cut-off power to most of the island an hour before the scheduled
>> tsunami arrival time.  This knocked all the radio and TV stations off
>> air, as well as killing power to most residents.  KKHJ stayed on-air
>> at low power, but in the hour before the tsunami hit, we were unable
>> to get the word out to most of the island because of an asinine  
>> decision
>> by some bone-headed doofus at the power company.