Heres what the tsunami looked like

[madokie]

http://freevideocoding.com/flvplayer.swf?file=http://flash.vx.roo.com/streamingVX/63056/1458/20110311_japan_wave_successions_sky_1000k.mp4&autostart=true

[GKirk]

1. didn't work n/t

[NYC_SKP]

2. Wow. (nt)

[virgogal]

3. Oh.My.God.

[tabatha]

4. Amazing.

[Lefta Dissenter]

5. that's the most stunning footage I have seen

of the tsunami.

It's SO, SO sad. :cry:

[intheflow]

6. That aerial footage at the start was breathtaking,

Not in a good way, but amazing in the fluidity of the destruction.

[xiamiam]

9. i watched that in real time on al jazeera as it was happening

around 11 my time..my friend from la called and we watched together while on the phone..stunned..unable to really say anything other than oh my god..knowing but not really..its worse than we thought..even though we knew ..i've never watched a disaster happening in real time before..something i cant quite wrap my head around

[Warpy]

12. CNN also streamed it that night

one of the better things they've done.

It just went on and on and on, kilometer after kilometer, erasing everything in its path.

I'm always amazed by the color, very different from the Indian Ocean tsunami. I keep thinking that it had to be undersea volcanic debris that was picked up to turn that water black.

[GKirk]

16. More likely it was

river silt or topsoil. The tsunami isn't moving the water itself, it's 'just' making a wave. It's like if you shake a rope,
you aren't sending the rope anywhere you're just making it wave.

[Warpy]

22. That's what I thought until I saw it coming ashore in other settings

and it was black as it hit, before it had a chance to pick up any river silt, before it got near a river, away from any estuaries.

I'm going with volcanic detritus.

[GKirk]

25. And you would be wrong...

...but I don't expect you to believe me. Ask someone with a
background in geology that you trust.

[GKirk]

34. Did you know

that the epicenter of the quake was 80 miles off shore?

[lutefisk]

7. Stunning compiliation

Horrifying.

[Chorophyll]

8. Holy crap.

I had to stop watching halfway through. :(

[Xithras]

10. I saw that the night of the quake

The night of the quake, NHK was simply posting raw, unedited video feeds, and American media was briefly rebroadcasting them with an equally minimal amount of editing. There are some sections of that video that were aired the night of the quake that NHK quickly wiped from their rebroadcasts, have declined to post online, and which will probably never see the light of day again. Personally, I wish I hadn't seen them either.

[uppityperson]

13. indeed

:hug:

[laundry_queen]

39. I saw it live too :(

There were some posting here as it was happening. It was horrific.

I have to say, I have watched numerous programs on just how excellently prepared Japan was for just such a scenario. I heard they had multiple tsunami drills and that everyone knew exactly where to go when one would hit. When I saw the first of the footage of the wave hitting farmland, I thought for certain those people must have been evacuated.

Imagine my horror as I saw cars with people in them being swept away. I will never be able to erase that image from my brain.

[GKirk]

42. Is that the same footage

that is posted at the top of this thread?
I have yet to be able to see it.

[Scottybeamer70]

11. There's simply no way

to prepare for that kind of destruction from mother nature! How sad.

[Evolve_Already]

14. Mesmerizing

and frightening all at once.

[GKirk]

15. Everyone else seems to be able to see it

why not me?

Could you (or anyone) try posting the link again?

[alphafemale]

17. Inspired me to find the highest ground in my neighborhood.

http://www.daftlogic.com/sandbox-google-maps-find-altitude.htm

Got that right. Highest point in miles is only a few hundred yards away.

I'm not one of the sillynilly sky is falling DU'ers.

"The FLU is going to KILLUS ALL!!!"
"The Icelandic Volcano is GOINGTO killus ALL!
"The Oil Spill is going to KILL USAll!
"The Japanese Nuclear Breach ISGoing to Kill Us ALL!"

But it doesn't hurt to have a plan.

[madokie]

18. Yes its good to always have a plan

[alphafemale]

19. When you have 5 feet of elevation 100 yards away...

That's probably worth 20 miles of running.

[center rising]

20. The power of water is absolutely incredible.

Katrina's 30ft. storm surge destroyed coastal Mississippi, water deluged New Orleans when the levees broke. A tsunami took 200,000 lives in Indonesia. 6 inches of rushing water can move a car.

No one realizes the power of water until you actually see it.

[GCP]

30. A cubic yard of water weighs 1680 lbs

There's no stopping that kind of kinetic energy.

[stuntcat]

21. horrifying

just incredible.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

23. Devastating to watch and can't even want to think about what it was for those

poor people to go through. Chills.

[Lorien]

24. The poor people in those vehicles

they didn't have a chance. :-(

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

29. I know

:cry:

[Phentex]

37. So painful to see the cars try and turn off the roads...

how frightened they must have been. Just makes my heart ache. :(

[BrklynLiberal]

26. Absolutely mind-numbing horrific.

[uppityperson]

27. I finally watched it. k&r

[50000feet]

28. Not sure this has been posted here,

but it's worth watching. I found it even more stunning.

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1416681/71a8dbc9/nieuwe_tsunami_footage.html

[GCP]

31. OMG - it was relentless

Slow-motion Apocalypse.

[GKirk]

35. Not sure what the announcer is saying...

...but I assume it is "run for your life!"

[50000feet]

40. Yah, and something like

OMG WTF OMG ... ?!

[hankthecrank]

32. k & r n/t

[RainDog]

33. incredibly devastating. those poor souls n/t

[GKirk]

36. Anyone following this thread I have a request

is the same video available on Youtube? I cannot get it to load through that freevideocoding site.

[Cali_Democrat]

38. Bookmarked. n/t

[slackmaster]

41. Relentless, unstoppable force of nature is relentless and unstoppable

:kick:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

43. A few words from Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.