The scariest first-person video of the Japan Tsunami yet
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He did not say he didn't care about the people...
Here I am thinking "oh the water just rises, it's not that bad". It wasn't until I saw a truck being dragged along like it was nothing that I realized how powerful it is. Then I saw the house....
[QUOTE=dookster;28600309]I hope those people who drive away at the beginning are okay. Judging by the speed the water came down the street at though, I fear it probably wasn't a good ending.
My feelings go out to Japan.[/QUOTE]
I bet they are. The actual speed of the water didn't change since the beginning (it just seems that way because of the volume of the water), and that can be easily outrunned by a car.
Damn, can you imagine watching your home or town being swept away? It's really scary just to think about.
[QUOTE=darius_bielecki;28604608]He did not say he didn't care about the people...[/QUOTE]
He implied it when he used the word "just".
The only thing that would make this more scary is Rip Taylor going past on a canoe shooting confetti.
At first i thought those houses might just stand. But then one just randomly floats away. Really weird.
Imaging watching how your life floats by.
And then watch together with your neighbor how his life floats by.
Poor japs. my heart goes out to them.
Oh my god.
The areal views really do not match up to this at all, this video is like something you'd see in an apocalyptic story. Rivers of water crashing through cities 20 ft deep while sirens scream, lifting entire building from their framework and tossing them around like toys, and solid metal being bent by the pure power of the rapids. When ever I hear things like this from a disaster, I always overlook them and see them as over-exaggerations, but after seeing this, I don't even know what to say.
Those emergency sirens always scare me way more than the actual event. I obviously never experienced living through a tsunami, but living in the northern part of Israel, I remember the air raid sirens in 2006.
I could hear multiple blasts and just "meh", but then there's the siren kicking in and my heart starts to race.
But yeah I'm not comparing the two, having water just completely sweeping everything out of it's way is horrible, I hope they will recover quickly.
That siren didn't really affect like the American tornado siren does.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuu2iNisoQc[/media]
Sends chills down my spine just hearing it. Never want to hear one of those in real life.
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Too soon?
Not the scariest i've seen so far. The videos i have seen on the news are even crazier.
Very sad. Another sad thing is my realization that a small number of people of Facepunch really need to grow the fuck up. This isn't some kind of joke.
[QUOTE=Satane;28606909]I lol'd when the cars went out at 2:30[/QUOTE]
Then again, you are a peasant.
[QUOTE=HWECQI;28599343]
That's fucking terrifying how easily those [u][b]buildings[/b][/u] are getting swept away.[/QUOTE]
Read this post before watching the video :ohdear:
[editline]14th March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=luck_or_loss;28607189]That siren didn't really affect like the American tornado siren does.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuu2iNisoQc[/media]
Sends chills down my spine just hearing it. Never want to hear one of those in real life.[/QUOTE]
T'is an 'air-raid' siren. It serves multipurpose roles in sounding for tornadoes, air-raids, and other natural disasters. They sound off every Wednesday at noon around here just to test them. It's the most bone chilling sound I can imagine, and I hear it every week.(Hopefully nobody ever decides to drop bombs on my city on a Wednesday at noon..)
That car at the start: "oh shit drive drive!"
If you thought this video was "funny"/rated it funny you've obviously never experienced something like that and are trying to compensate for it.
[QUOTE=Vox;28601506]I'm just sad about all the pets that must have been left behind[/QUOTE]
faggot
Saw some of the aerial footage today too. I was like "Oh wow look at all those bricks a house must have fallen over upstream"
Then the bricks just kept coming
[h2]They were cars[/h2]
That last building that was just floating away. Fucking crazy shit right there.
That person has some serious balls to just stand there.
I think i shed a tear.
I'm sorry for them
It's quite surreal watching buildings just flow away and actually seeing the water rising.
All that in 6 minutes.
This is gonna take well over 10 years to fix.
Poor Japaneses.
Everything bad happened there
[QUOTE=luck_or_loss;28607189]That siren didn't really affect like the American tornado siren does.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuu2iNisoQc[/media]
Sends chills down my spine just hearing it. Never want to hear one of those in real life.[/QUOTE]
That's the sound the fire department siren makes near me. So I hear it all the time.
[QUOTE=luck_or_loss;28607189]That siren didn't really affect like the American tornado siren does.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuu2iNisoQc[/media]
Sends chills down my spine just hearing it. Never want to hear one of those in real life.[/QUOTE]
So americans based their sirens on cows?
[QUOTE=Nitro836;28599470]"OHSHIT, my towns getting flooded!
Get the camera!"[/QUOTE]
You can either
A) Go out there and drown for no reason when you can survive inside, on a higher level.
B) Try to look for people to help and just drown because you are ill-equipped
or C) Get your camera and film it for future audiences to understand what it's like during a huge flood.
Every time I hear a siren, I think of the Iron Giant, because that was the movie where I first heard what a siren sounded like. That scene gave me the chills.
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