Sounds like it did more damage to west coast of the mainland, with 3-4 ft waves. It hit in Japan with over 20 ft waves while people were waking up, I guess the massive earth quake woke them up first.
LUCKY!
--- On Fri, 3/11/11, Rob Ratkowski Photography <ratkwski@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
From: Rob Ratkowski Photography <ratkwski@hawaii.rr.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Tsunami coming to Hawaii To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Friday, March 11, 2011, 5:17 PM The wave that Kahului had was in the 6-7 ft range and the harbor had some damage. As I came down the mountain to do some work in Kihei, a large patch of disturbed water was seen, it filled 1/3-1/2 the harbor. Parts of the Kihei shoreline were closed off but the beach I go to showed evidence of the wave going up to the plant barriers and grass (about 150 ft). It was pretty cool to see the beach smooth and flat w/ very few people on it and hardly any footprints. I spent 2 hrs. in the sun and only saw one set of waves that actually came farther up the beach than the normal small waves of today. It was also odd to see no boats of any kind out, usually the count is between 10-20 boats at one time, just saw several whale breeches. It was beautiful sunny day and the water was clear and cool also w/ a flat bottom with the normal undulating bottom was made flat. Pretty girls too ;^)
Aloha Rob
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