[Closed] Siren sounds, big wave coming,..where would you ride to?

Holmbury. Would do the fun bits then over to Leith Hill for a bit of cake at the tower while I watch the countryside being decimated below me. Or I'd rush home and get my surfboard.

Given I live on top of a hill I'd just nip down the garden for a few laps of the pump track then sit on my balcony with beer in hand and watch the carnage unfold. Or maybe fix the hole in my dinghy.

I live at the foot of the Malverns, when the klaxon goes off Id head [i]en famille[/i] to the Hills Hotel Bar and make the best of it.

I'd pack a lido.

It's going to have to be a [i]very [/i]big wave.

Hmm. It's unbelievably flat here. Think I'd just go for a rider in my boardies and leave the surfboard on route. I'd be on the fat bike 8)

I'd Stop in bed....the village is at 300m above sea level.

I'd head up to Beacon Batch with a flagon of scrumpy and some sandwiches.

Home.

I'm in brum on a hill... Pretty safe from a tidal wave I reckon.

I'd disassemble my old Stumpjumper and get all of my friends and family into my old "FSA Pig" headset. Whatever the emergency I'm sure it would survive it.

It's going to have to be a [b]very[/b] big wave.

I was intending to post a comical video of the Wavey Davey from Vic Reeves Big Night Out, but you'd have to watch a whole episode to get there.

In the meantime, I discovered Wavey Davey is quite something else in the age of Youtube!!

I have henceforth retreated to high ground!!

I'd cycle to harbour and jump aboard my lobster boat

In all honesty I'd probably just stay in bed and have sex.

[quote=Northwind ]It's going to have to be a very big wave.
I'll throw a lifebelt out of my window on your way past.

i would be a stickler for survival, reckon i could make it to the Long Mynd in time, they are a fair height, probably take the racer as avoiding scrotes looking for a quicker ride would be everywhere

Last year in a coastal city in Chile, the wife and I were walking along the beach and the dirty great tsunami alarm went off. There are signs all over the shop showing you were to go (up, and away from the water) but no one else was panicking. Turns out they test it at that time every Wednesday...

I live below sea level less than a mile from the shore so I'd be heading for the high ground sharpish

In all honesty I'd probably just stay in bed and have sex.

doesn't it take more than two hours to inflate the doll?

Hmmmm, living pretty much central East Anglia, bit limited for choice! I'm with Tom B ..... eeek! no, no! In my bed with my wife!... I mean 😳

Currently 195m above sea level here.

My favourite singletrack is all up hills, so I'd do both.

Take the fatty ride the coastal path then hop on to my board for free ride home.

In all honesty I'd probably just stay in bed and have sex.

time the money shot for when the wave hits 😀

Depending on time I'd either head up to the old fort just up the road (one of the highest points around here) or I'd head up to Crooks Peak as it's got much more height difference than the surrounding land and nearer to the coast so I'd get a fantastic view of the wave coming ashore.

Would make sure I had plenty of gravy bones for the dog too so as we may be up there for a while.

Shut up Moe you'll get people talking!!

56M above sea level,will I be ok?

I'd head the same direction as the wave but try to go a smidge faster. They don't go much faster than 13 mph do they 😀

I would ride into south peaks I think.

What fat bike tyres for apocolyptic wave?

I live on the beach in East sussex about 3 meters above sea level? so i would get on ape tube and crack a few off the wrist.

Ride to Arthurs seat and watch the world burn.....MUHAHAHA

Hmm at 4m above sea level if I couldn't be with the family, I'd go to the beach (its 1/2 a mile away) with the longboard, paddle out and wait for the great leveller. would probably end up over the falls but it'd be good to try.

Otherwise it's me, heavily pregnant o/h and the dog onto the KTM and off up to deadwater fell above kielder with a tent.

Tbh you'd probably not want to survive at all: if cholera and dysentery didn't get you in the months after, fallout from our coastal nuclear installations going haywire will.

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Ride to Arthurs seat and watch the world burn.....MUHAHAHA

Til the big wave puts it out

I'm 80ft above sea level anyway as is the surrounding land and it only goes upwards into the Surrey Hills up to 900ft-ish. Would be like riding on a cliff top with a view over the sea to the south, and maybe the south downs as an island.

Pretty much how it would have been however many millions of years ago. Just look at a terrain map and you can see the North Downs and Surrey Hills are a sea cliff, or the edge of a glacier.

I live in Lincolnshire. I'm screwed.

I live near Pittsburgh (dot to the left of "PA" on the map). That would be a really big wave! 😯

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Edit - at 1000+ ft elevation with higher mountains to the east as well.

I'm currently on top of a small hill in Oxford. About 65 miles from the sea. I think I would stay in bed and turn the radio on.

Thinking about it, I'm fairly sure Oxford doesn't have a tsunami warning system. Maybe I should write to the council and suggest it.

Maybe I should write to the council and suggest it.

LOL! Please do this! And post their replies here.

[url= http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/shocking-new-japan-tsunami-video-found-released ]scarey[/url]

Brilliant!
When's it happening?
I'll have a beach front property 😀

I'd just do a quick loop to smash some hills, ending up back at the yacht I'm living on.

Given I live about as far from the sea as is possible in the UK I'd probably stay at home. To keep amused I'd get on Strava and keep an eye out for record breaking KOM attempts.

Biking is be tempted by thrunton, then sit on the crag and dangle my feet, see if they get wet. Home is further inland and still over 125m with easily accessible high ground nearby

I'd ride over to Beachy Head and dare it to get me.......

Currently at 1200m. 1 hours ride can get me up to 2000m. The hike-a-bike up to 2800m might take me a bit more than an hour but I reckon I'll be ok.

Re: Klunk's link
-that is indeed v scary

That video is pretty sobering.

About 60m on the edge of the South Downs here. I think I'd wander into the front garden and watch the approaching wave and then swivel 180 degrees as it heads up the valley, then jump on my bike and over the Downs and watch it race along the northern edge.

Watching the video now, was expecting it to be one I'd already seen but its new to me...

As long as the wave is less than 720ft,i will stay at home..

Hmmmm

If i was in North Lincs i would ditch the bike, and make my way as far inland as possible in the car avoiding all major roads and motorways.

If in sunny somerset on the edge of exmoor, a toss up between north hill and having a picnic on top of the secret radar station watching south wales go under, or going up grabbist and watching Butlins vanish but hoping my 2nd floor flat further up town might survive.

Bike would be whatever is handy, although i doubt the park rangers would mind me driving my car up 🙂

hmm what would Lt. Col. Kilgore do?

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At 300m+ and 70 miles inland I'll be sitting on my balcony, beer and snacks to hand watching the world float by. Always wanted to live on the edge of a lake.

Up onto the Greensand ridge to watch Somerset disappear. Wiltshire will then have a coast, win-win I'd say.

119m and 100 miles from the sea

The tide can wave all it wants!

Think Somerset has too many big hills to disappear, maybe a selection of nice islands.

Best dig out the crossbow so i can defend my island and set up an off shore bank 🙂

Yeh Klunks link shows us the reality. Scary indeed.

I'd put the packraft on the front on the bike, and head for the hills. 1 hr will get me up about 500 meters as long as I can cut through the city traffic.