Malibu is advising residents to "never go to the beach to watch for, or to surf, a tsunami wave!"   City emergency preparedness officials said, "You can't overestimate the intelligence of people out there.   Some people still might see it as a gigantic wave and think, 'This is going to be the ride of my life.'"

Surfers reacted to the this message by saying "it sounds really lame" and "that strikes me as somewhat silly advice."   But the LA Times is quick to point out that in 1994, a tsunami warning in Hawaii drew more than 400 surfers to the North Shore of Oahu.

Just to give you a little perspective on things, the city has some signs posted to direct people to tsunami safe areas.   Those signs are posted at elevations of 90 feet and higher above sea level.