special sneak preview for the fine folks at alt.surfing
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~jborrero/peru/quinta_a.jpg
La Quinta near Camana, remains of a 2 story house. there was a foundation in front of this house of (presumably) another house, but it was wiped clean. There was seaweed and sand on top of the 2nd story. 4.5 m above ground. that's me in the red shirt. We are about 100 m inland on low lying farm land. the wave penetrated over 1 km inland here.
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~jborrero/peru/camana_a.jpg
the La Punta area on the coast outside of Camana, the hardest hit area. the whole place was previously pretty much covered with structures before the event. mostly light concrete, wood and adobe construction. the wave went all the way to the base of the mountain in the distance. note the skeletonized structure in the middle with the walls blown out on both sides. The pic was taken off the 2nd floor of a solid building that was on the front line. It had sand and debris all over the 2nd floor and up a few stairs foing to a 3rd floor lookout!
don't mess with mother nature...
