We’ve seen a lot of of the tragic Japan , but this clip is the most horrifying yet. Entitled “South Sanriku — Tsunami seen from Shizugawa High School,” it’s shot from high ground, but toward the end of the video you can see panicked residents running for their lives.
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Shortly after the tsunami, one survivor called the oncoming deluge “a gigantic pile of garbage coming down the street.” That’s an apt description, as you can see an entire town reduced to a huge pile of watery debris in a matter of minutes. Shocking.
You might add the video starts off very slowly and doesn’t get to what we most often see until about 3 minutes in. Tension builds cinematically. One can imagine being there and not taking heed of the early signs……until its too late.
Most excellent video indeed.
Forget the movies Cloverfield and the upcoming 8mm.
I wish everyone would stop saying that people “panic” when these things happen. They almost never do. In fact, research has shown that in many cases, the victims would have been better served if they really did panic.
Disaster panic is a myth.
Go Go Godzilla!!
More whale and dolphin meat for them, horray. I don’t see anything bad about this.
At the 1 min mark. You see a car going into town under the bridge. That was his last bad call.
Nature basically shows us how foolish we all are for amassing so much of our “garbage”, near the shores, and in low graded areas near the ocean. So any major wave that comes along, just sweeps it all way. There was a time when fishing villages were much simpler. And there were no cars, trucks, ships. So it was much easier to escape the deluge, and recover from the losses. But overpopulation and urban sprawl has blighted the area with way too much “stuff”, that was just waiting to be a deathtrap of moving garbage. It will take years to clean up and rebuild, rather than months. And building a nuclear plant site as close to the fault line as possible. because the property value was the cheapest, wasn’t the brightest idea either.
I am not often so moved to language, but Theone #5 you are an ignorant cunt.
No regards.
In #7 Glenn E. said: It will take years to clean up and rebuild, rather than months. And building a nuclear plant site as close to the fault line as possible. because the property value was the cheapest, wasn’t the brightest idea either.
They should want to rebuild higher up a slope, no?
Its like the idiots who build on a flood plain and are all astounded when water comes washing over their property. Federal help should be limited to relocation expenses.
Nuclear reactors should all be subterranean. Building a quarter-mile (.5 kilometer) underground would take care all objections and construction issues.
Property values and real cheap down there too.
If it blows up, it’ll never show up except on a seismometer.
This is heartbreaking. These innocent people had little to no warning.
#5 No words are strong enough to emphasize the sheer ignorance of theones post. I truly hope karma catches up with you one day when you drown in your tub in your mothers basement. Hopefully real soon.
I second #8′s post…you are an ignorant cunt.
Narcissism and disaster voyeurism.
Maybe use a tripod next time?
Wow, Terrible is right, anyone catch the the guy in the black jacket trying to help the fireman rescue the older women? He was swept away in the last few seconds of the video….poor guy.
Stunning. Tragic. But preventable.
http://cbs12.com/articles/fudai-4732523-floodgate-tsunami.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabrook_Floodgate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeslantkering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSE_Project
#15 Yes. Unless you have a heart of stone this will truly appall you. Of course some just don’t get that is is real.
Japan was much better prepared than most countries. They even stood up the quack. They were utterly unprepared for the flooding but then so were we for Katrina and we both knew that this was coming. The only question was when.
They will no doubt rebuild in the same locations that have flooded this time as in centuries past just as we are encouraging people to move into a city below sea level.
Those who do not learn from the mistakes of others are bound to repeat them and pay the price. In this case the price is horrific beyond the power of words.
Of course some will look at the old markers and heed their warning but the young people will mostly say. That happened long ago. It will not happen again for a long time and in a way they are right but then it will happen again.
In both the cases of the seawall protection of the Japanese coastal nuclear plants and the levees protecting New Orleans, it was a case of “one size fits _most_.” The levees were designed to withstand up to a Category Three storm. It was estimated that building levees able to withstand the storm surge of a Category Five would have cost several Billion dollars, and Congress wouldn’t pony up for it. The seawalls protecting the Japanese nuclear plants were designed to withstand tsunamis approximately half the size of the ones that hit after the Magnitude Nine quake.
It is easy in hindsight to argue the money should have been spent; not so easy before the fact to spend billions and billions in case of an extremely rare occurrence.
#18 and, in hindsight, the same people would argue that because we can’t predict the disasters, we should just never build nuclear power stations anywhere.
This is embarassing. Can anyone explain to me #5–TheOnes insult? I know the Japanese are “associated” with killing Whales for Food, and dolphins for food and bycatch of tuna but how will these species be more available to them? Given this ambiguity saying hooray didn’t make any sense either.
What well known racial insult mechanism am I unaware of? Goofy failed attempts at insults are not to be reacted to, goofy failed attempts at humor are to be tolerated.