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Originally Posted by munkey
our large spring tides can sometimes flood the water front car parks, it happens every year, we had a report on the news say it was due to global warming.
I had a couple of tourists tell me about what they heard on the news and where all concerned about the water in the car park.
I told them to wait where they where for a minute and returned with a Tide book (I worked on boats so we had a tide book on every vessel)
I asked them what the date was, (which I knew already) and showed them the tide for that date.
Sure enough, spring tide with an asterix, saying king tide (larger than normal)
I also informed them that some of these charts are written a couple of years in advance,
Moral of the story, don't alays believe what you hear on the news
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Oh no no. That happens hear too, but this is the first time EVER this has happened in Maine, where the tide retreated in and out, like the tides usually do but in a single tidal period, it made people think there was a tsunami coming. However, Maine is one of the safest places in the world from a tsunami, not only do to the lack of faults but our continental shelf is 250 miles which is a huge barrier. Anyways, we also have some of the largest tides in the world, the largest being just North of us in the Bay of Fundy, so any moon disturbances would be well noticed here.