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http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/shocking-new-japan-tsunami-video-found-releasedPretty humdrum for the first third, then all hell breaks loose...
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)complex would fall down, throwing me into that godawful mess. I hope that didn't happen...
Delphinus
(11,831 posts)I would have not stayed anywhere close to that - water, massive amounts of water, or fast running water, scares me greatly.
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)tblue37
(65,403 posts)steady. That video jumps around so much I had to stop every few minutes to let my eyes calm down because I was getting dizzy, nauseous, and headachy from all the wild bouncing and swinging around.
Also, the person taping made bizarre choices. As the water was coming in, almost the only steady shots he made ignored the moving water and settled on the cars and buildings that the water had not yet reached at all, and the water was usually was not even near enough to see during those shots.
He kept swinging the camera around from buildings to trees to people, so fast that your eyes couldn't even focus, and when it came to rest, it was often on nothing of significance.
I think he was so excited that he couldn't settle down on any one shot. Instead, he swung the camera around like a hyperactive 3-year-old who had just ingest a whole cup of sugar! Very frustrating viewing experience. I wanted to smack him upside the head and yell at him to settle the f**k down and focus on one thing at a time!
Having said that, though, I think those people in the video were nuts. You couldn't pay me to stay that close to a force that powerful! I assume that the Japanese, for the most part, do understand the extraordinary power of tsunamis. But they kept approaching close to the river channel to get a closer look, as though they believed the water would just stay in the channel! At least the cop was able to shoo them away--and at least he was wise enough to know when to get the heck out of there himself.
I'm a coward. I would have kept running until I reached the highest, most distant point I could reach before the water broke over the wall!
I was sure that the water was going to take down that cross bridge--and at one point it really looked as though it would.
It was especially amazing when the tsunami got so deep (high) that it was not only over the wall, but almost as deep as the buildings nearest the road along the wall.
BTW, did you see at 19:38, there was a man in the water! Poor fellow. I wonder how he ended up in the water., and I sure hope he made it out in one piece.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)msongs
(67,413 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)darkangel218
(13,985 posts)greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)That was the best example I've seen so far that shows the sheer
power and speed of the tsunami.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)only to be overwhelmed by massive water flow. I'm assuming everyone we saw in the video had time to make it to safety but I know that not everyone did.
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)This was the Tsunami at Onagawa, Miyagi. It ultimately reached a height of 50'. At least twelve of the city's twenty-five evacuation sites were inundated. There is relatively little footage of the Tsunami here, and I think the reasons are evident in watching this video. At 1:35 the camera pans back to show a large building (a hospital I believe) located on a hill behind the city. Ultimately the water reached that height, causing damage in the building (you can see backflow off the hillside there at 2:20)
This short video shows just how high the water reached in some locations. In this case almost 38m.
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)mockmonkey
(2,817 posts)"Pray for Japan" it was heartbreaking to watch the people trying to handle the loss of loved ones especially the scene of the graduating classmates returning to school.