11-24-2007, 05:00 PM
The there is evidience in New South Wales, Australia of that ancient Tsunami w/debris at 1500 ft, and the info board had also stated that Hawaii had evidence of the same wave!
At the tsunami museum in Hilo they have a wealth of info, & I seem to remember that the bridge that collapsed & closed the train line for the final time happen just after a train went over, days after the tsunami (but the museum had sooo much info, I might have transposed some...)
The Kohekohe park bridge was taken down after the train stopped runnign, the rails were left, most likely because it would be a pain to get them out, but that is just a guess) I know that wave action has eroded the cliffs at HPP shore, & strom waves did bring up pretty big rocks into neighbors frontage when we were living down by the shore, so I can only image that a tsunami would at least clutter yards with boulders & stuff....
As for public transportation, there are free public buses, (early morning to late night) anywhere on island. The lower Puna route has the most hours of service...so sure is good for the price (any many of the drivers are now fairly close to ontime - a couple of routes run routinely late, the rest are pretty timely - not bad for free!) The trick is to find a place to live &/or work near the bus route.
Edited by - carey on 11/24/2007 21:08:52
At the tsunami museum in Hilo they have a wealth of info, & I seem to remember that the bridge that collapsed & closed the train line for the final time happen just after a train went over, days after the tsunami (but the museum had sooo much info, I might have transposed some...)
The Kohekohe park bridge was taken down after the train stopped runnign, the rails were left, most likely because it would be a pain to get them out, but that is just a guess) I know that wave action has eroded the cliffs at HPP shore, & strom waves did bring up pretty big rocks into neighbors frontage when we were living down by the shore, so I can only image that a tsunami would at least clutter yards with boulders & stuff....
As for public transportation, there are free public buses, (early morning to late night) anywhere on island. The lower Puna route has the most hours of service...so sure is good for the price (any many of the drivers are now fairly close to ontime - a couple of routes run routinely late, the rest are pretty timely - not bad for free!) The trick is to find a place to live &/or work near the bus route.
Edited by - carey on 11/24/2007 21:08:52