Hat tip to tj and the bear for sending in this rare (only 93 views) tsunami video:
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I watched thinking maybe this one wont be that bad… but it only got bigger. When the video first started I thought to myself what if I was standing on that this garage roof, or that green roof by the ship… what If I was trapped in one of those cars.
Needless to say I would have been dead.
My heart truly sinks watching this video.
Very sobering, especially considering I was in Tokyo a few months ago and some of my coworkers were there when the earthquake hit. Japan is wonderful; the people and sights are amazing. I know they’ll see themselves through what’s happened but it’s heartbreaking none the less.
Hard to imagine the energy it would take to displace that volume of water.
…also makes all of the banter about real estate prices seem petty.
At 3:16, If I’m taking these pictures, I’m thinking this is it.
Hat tip to the person who took this video. That took some guts.
Hope they and the people in that other building survived.
This triple catastrophe will change Japan for the next 2 or 3 lifetimes.
horribly awful… makes you think twice about how close you really want to live by the ocean vs maybe being more safe inland
Hope they and the people in that other building survived.
I’m assuming that if the video survived then the person taking it did, too, and I’ve seen some incredible videos. If you were on top of that building, though, you really had to wonder if you *were* going to survive.
Truly heartbreaking to watch! The younger generation in Japan may well call the 9.0 earthquake + tsunami + nuclear catastrophe their “Hiroshima”.
I read recently a t-shirt shop in Hawaii was selling “Aloha” t-shirts. The “o” in “Aloha” was painted red–like the Japanese flag. They were selling for $20 each, and ALL proceeds were going to help Japan. They were selling out each day @ about $1,500/day.
When a catastrophe like this hits, we truly become one nation on the planet…
Holy sh*t!
(The moderation software says my comment is too short, but I just don’t know what else to say.)
Flash media is relatively robust. I darkly wonder how many digital cameras and cell phones are buried in the debris, and how many of them hold images taken by people who didn’t make it.
If you found one, would you look?
I wish I knew what the man on the loud speaker was saying. What do you say to warn people when there is no place to go and no time to get out. Maybe he was praying.
Cherie,
He was saying “For your own safety, please stay indoors. This is a tsunami warning. We will inform you when it is safe (to go out).” This was on NHK (Japanese news tv) when the tsunami first hit, it had played on the news there in Japan, and some of us caught it here. What’s sad, is that the person filming, says very distinctly, as he points to the swirling water, “Hito!” which in Japanese means “person” or “people” -the person looks like a little dot, out in the churning water. Later on, there were so many of those “dots,” being swept by. I wondered if anyone really caught what they were really seeing on the footage, especially, if they didn’t know the language.