Jimmy Kimmel Recounts Evacuation Following Tsunami Warning In Tahiti

Monday, March 14, 2011 5:01 PM By dwi

Story photo: Jimmy Kimmel Recounts Evacuation Following Tsunami Warning In TahitiJimmy Kimmel arrives at the 15th period "GQ Men of the Year" party held at Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles on November 17, 2010 Getty ImagesAccess Hollywood

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Jimmy Kimmel has revealed that his voiding in Bora Bora terminal week, after the today officially 9.0 seism in Nihon sent a tsunami warning across the Pacific, was the actualisation of digit of his worst nightmares become true.

In a newborn blog entry for The Huffington Post, lightly spruced with his signature jovial talk (yet not making fun of the gravity of the situation), the "Jimmy Kimmel Live" patron revealed that as a child, he had digit "dream" that "stuck with" him "through thin and thick. Tidal wave."

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While a tsunami did not modify up affecting the late night patron and his girlfriend, Molly, while they were vacationing on the Oceanic island, he revealed it was a dramatic undergo that began with him joking most tidal waves, before the seism modify struck.

"I knew we'd be dustlike because I control under the (logical) assumption that tsunamis never strike while digit is talking most them or modify soon after. So, to ready us safe, from the time we touched downbound in Tahiti, I talked most tsunamis non-stop," Jimmy wrote.

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Later though, after the disrespectful seism rocked Nihon and sent the tsunami warning across the sea, Jimmy said he tried to ready his kinsfolk members calm in the consequence of the news.

"I spent the incoming 8 hours lying to my kinsfolk via telecommunicate (everything is fine! No, we're not in the path at all), watching the news, tweeting, googling every nine seconds, screaming 'where the f*** is Wolf Blitzer?!' at the television, packing, and occupation the guy at the face desk," Jimmy wrote.

The incoming morning, however, Jimmy said he woke with a start.

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"At 4:30am, the sound in my hut rang and the guy wasn't laughing. We were to be evacuated immediately," he revealed.

"The men were in life jackets," Jimmy noted of the assemble that amassed. "The women were in hell. The prototypal man, a terrified-looking Indian, said nothing."

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The assemble evacuated to added Oceanic island where they had to "hike to the top of a hill, and move it out."

However, Jimmy said the voiding was pleasant enough.

"Higher ground was a dirty filler slab, the groundwork of a house that wasn't meant to stand," he wrote. "But [my hotel staff from the] Four Seasons... was there and then, so was a table with a table cloth, water, coffee, trays of hearty banana and walnut breads, modify paper napkins."

Eventually though, the status passed without incident.

"At 7:30, a burble roughly the filler of a youngster M&M was identified as the gesture we'd been waiting for. We had to move for the follow-up waves before effort the all-clear to boat back. The ordinal gesture was modify smaller. A third gesture never came. The trial was over."

To read the rest of Jimmy's blog, click HERE.

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