video of japan tsunami

[fuckyourcouch]

this is long, but worth it, and you can FF in a few parts.

apparently, this video of the japan tsunami was uncovered recently. it's insane how quickly it escalates and how fast things get out of control. even if you just watch the first 5 or so minutes, it's just amazing.

youtu.be/0gh3JrdL-Zg

(not inserting the video since it screws up browsing for some people)

[mrsgoontz]

I'm only 5 minutes in but whoa

[ginap]

Fascinating and horrifying. Watching parts of houses float by is just mind blowing.

[stephlove]

Aug 15, 2013 13:19:41 GMT -5 kevin arnold said:

That link doesn't work for me, I get a 502 error.

Me, too.

[bania]

Aug 15, 2013 13:19:41 GMT -5 kevin arnold said:

That link doesn't work for me, I get a 502 error.

Me too but it worked on my iPhone.

That's unreal. I just can't imagine.

[orangello]

oh my god. How does everyone seem so calm in that video? I would be in hysterics.

[fuckyourcouch]

Aug 15, 2013 13:30:59 GMT -5 orangello said:

oh my god. How does everyone seem so calm in that video? I would be in hysterics.

That was my first thought. Everyone is so ho hum about it, I'd be losing my mind. 

[ECB]

The first tiny wave was pulling boats down the river, then by 10 minutes, the river is all debris and HOUSES. Unbelievable!

[ax2]

Jesus. This is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night.

[papie]

OMG. It starts all slow and non scary and you are like "that wave coming is the tsunami?" and then whoa. How incredibly scary it must have been.

[silva]

I'm speechless.

[flex]

I was getting the heebie jeebies just watching it--I'll bet my blood pressure went up. I'm currently in Kodiak which was practically wiped out after the 1964 tsunami (EQ was 9.2 on the Richter). I kept thinking: "how high would I have to run up the mountain here to get away from that water?"

If I had been those people I would have been freaking out wondering if I had gone high enough up on that building.

[gretchenindisguise]

Totally insane. But incredibly fascinating.

[LeggsBenedict]

oh jeez. I followed a video on the side bar and now I'm on part two of a seven part doc on the 2004 tsunami.

this is insane.

[womet]

Wow. I cannot imagine being there to witness this destruction by water and then the fires.

[thinklikeajellyfish]

Aug 15, 2013 13:32:49 GMT -5 fuckyourcouch said:

Aug 15, 2013 13:30:59 GMT -5 orangello said:

oh my god. How does everyone seem so calm in that video? I would be in hysterics.

That was my first thought. Everyone is so ho hum about it, I'd be losing my mind. 

Exactly this.  I just can't fathom going through something like this.  It only took a few minutes to go from a little wave to tearing down the bridge and then a few more to houses floating by.  Incredible.  I would have been worried the whole time that the building I was standing on was going to collapse, and then wondering how in the world I was going to get down.  Wow. 

[WOT?*]

I started watching, then hit a couple on the sidebar, then started to view the Indian Ocean tsunamis in 2004... The first one in Thailand showed raw footage including two guys holding each other just feet from the camera being swept away from the hotel into the waves.

Awful. Just horrific. All of it.

I had to check to see how Masawa, Japan was affected in 2011 since my DD1 is headed there Sunday with my grandson. Thank the good Lord it was on the "wrong" side of the island and wasn't affected beyond waves, shocks and power outages. I'd not be able to sleep if I what I was seeing included where my daughter and her family were living.

[TheSeaward]

there is a really good documentary called tsunami caught on camera, it is like 7 parts. worth watching

[eav2c]

The end is particularly horrific to me with the fire and all the people on the roof in the distance. It happened so quick.

[elleblue]

Aug 15, 2013 16:02:27 GMT -5 mofongo said:

What caused the fires?

Most likely downed power lines.

[copperboom]

Fuck. Omg. That was horrifying.

[TheSeaward]

Aug 15, 2013 14:02:37 GMT -5 LeggsBenedict said:

oh jeez. I followed a video on the side bar and now I'm on part two of a seven part doc on the 2004 tsunami.

this is insane.

that is the one I was talking about, watch the entire series, it is very well done

[anasara]

Wow. 

DH grew up in Tamil Nadu, India & ILs still live there.  They own some land on the coast that was a coconut grove (operative word "was") until the '04 tsunami.  We're building on it now.  Just a few km up the road when I was there back in '09 some people were still living in temporary housing.

[karmasabiotch]

The power of nature is amazing.

[Deleted]

that just blew my mind. i've been clicking the start and the end to see the contrast, and holy shit. in the beginning it looks so harmless.

[hisno1girl]

I can't watch that. The jerking movements of the video is giving me motion sickness.

If i end up barfing, I'll blame you!

[TrudyCampbell]

OMG that is terrifying! I would not be standing around video taping that!

[cc]

Watching that and then the one from 2004 makes me want to move to the mountains.

[sugarbear]

Aug 15, 2013 14:02:37 GMT -5 LeggsBenedict said:

oh jeez. I followed a video on the side bar and now I'm on part two of a seven part doc on the 2004 tsunami.

this is insane.

I started watching that and had to turn it off. That part in the beginning, when the wall o'wave trashes the yacht? Yeah. Terrifying.

[litebright]

OMG. OMG.

It just keeps coming, and coming, and coming -- and I kept thinking, how much more can possibly still come? And it gets MORE powerful, not less.