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Fox News Reports That The Tsunami’s Waves Have Caused Millions In Damage And One Death In Oregon

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Like all huge events, some of the early reports on the Japanese earthquake and the resulting fall out have proven to be inaccurate. In some cases this is good (it’s possible the widely-reported figure of 88,000 missing might be too high) while in the case of America’s west coast, it may not be. This morning, the BBC quoted White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley who said the fact that the waves passed through Hawaii without serious damage was “encouraging” for the rest of the US. Unfortunately, it appears that Oregon’s coasts have been hit quite hard by the reverberations from, as Fox News’ Shepard Smith put it, “an earthquake half a world away.”

Smith quoted authorities from southern Oregon that said that vessels have been sunk or lost, property at a harbor was destroyed, and men were swept off a boat. While they have been recovered and should be okay, another man on the boat with known heart problems has perished. A county sheriff has estimated the damage to be in the millions.

It’s likely that the earlier guesses weren’t inaccurate and that they predictions of American territories not receiving “serious damage” were only using that phrase in relation to the devastation in Asia.

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Fox News video of Tsunami damage in Oregon below:

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  • BatBoy

    When they say, “Don’t go down near the water, you might get swept out to sea,”

    They really mean it!

    A California man….hmmmm!

  • haihai58

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  • Yoda002

    The GOP is trying to slash spending on Tsunami warning systems.

  • jrcmi

    Yoda002 said:
    The GOP is trying to slash spending on Tsunami warning systems.

    If that’s a joke, it’s not funny.

    If it’s TRUE, it’s REALLY not funny . . . or surprising.

  • jrcmi

    “The GOP is trying to slash spending on Tsunami warning systems.”

    If that’s a joke, it’s not funny.

    If it’s TRUE, it’s REALLY not funny . . . or surprising.

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  • BatBoy

    Yoda002 said:
    The GOP is trying to slash spending on Tsunami warning systems.

    jrcmi said:
    If that’s a joke, it’s not funny.

    No, it is not true, just something made up intended to divide.

    I would support no funding on anything “Yoda”!

  • liuliu107

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  • struckgld

    Smith on Fox was talking about the impact to the United States AFTER having spent the previous ten minutes talking about deaths and damage in Japan.

    Beginning to sound a lot like Chris Matthews styled MSNBC here…

  • Yoda002

    BatBoy said:
    No, it is not true, just something made up intended to divide.

    I would support no funding on anything “Yoda”!

    It was one of their spending cuts.

  • chicgoods

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