Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Oh I don't know. Many years ago I saw a TV news report from the
> beachfront facing Galveston. Female reporter doing a 'to camera' in
> the lee of a building, shouting and leaning into the building
> windstorm with her hair and the debris flying - and on the bay behind
> her some way off, just for a moment, a windsurfer shot past barely
> touching water.
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Reminds me of the book "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven and Jerry
Pournelle. From a review in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer:
"The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a
thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves
thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned
into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of
civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it
was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival--a struggle more
dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known...."
One of the scenes painted in the book is of a surfer determined to go
out with a bang. He rides a comet induced tsunami about 100 (?) feet
high from off the coast of Los Angeles until it (and he) collide with a
building much higher than 100 feet.
Chuck Norcutt
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