The scariest first-person video of the Japan Tsunami yet
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[QUOTE=booster;28600071]That Japanese warning sound is eerie as hell.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of the military from STALKER
This would have been so interesting, i would love to be there. First of all, I think he made a good and logical choice to start filming, as it it enables the person to show it to the world and gain more information on the tsunami.
Secondly, why should he be scared? He is perfectly safe on that hill. Interesting, but not at all scary.
And here I take living in the middle of a continent for granted.
I can only begin to imagine how terrible the aftermath will be after all the water recedes.
As bad as it is, this strangely reminded me of Inception at the end, where all the buildings were peeling away, but not to such an extent.
this really makes your own life seem utterly insignificant because everything these people have ever worked for gets washed away within seconds
it's like an amazing metaphor
[QUOTE=BulletofHell;28599430]I can only imagine the dread and fear that the cameraman probably felt as he watched the buildings right next to the ones he was on crumble and collapse before his eyes.
Shit is fucked up.[/QUOTE]
From when he turned around, it doesn't look like he's in/on a building. It's like a small stone hill or something.
I just wanted to keep watching.
Absolutely incredible.
[editline]15th March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=thisispain;28612725]this really makes your own life seem utterly insignificant because everything these people have ever worked for gets washed away within seconds
it's like an amazing metaphor[/QUOTE]
Surprisingly exactly what I was thinking.
We spend all this time building magnificent cities and the earth farts at us and it's gone in seconds.
[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]
Go to 18 seconds.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2JxqbgEAfA[/media]
[QUOTE=1chains1;28600688] Several years later, a great deal of New Orleans still remains completely trashed and even then the "repaired" parts are left ghost towns as a vast majority of people did not return. They simply migrated and ditched their homes, their right to that ground where they worked so hard to survive and grow. [/QUOTE]
New Orleans was a stupid place to found a settlement to begin with. Right in the middle of a giant floodplain. Even minor storms cause horrible flooding. Look at the topographical maps, it looks like a giant bowl.
[img]http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/Katrina/Katrina%20Images/New%20Orelans%20Cross-Section.gif[/img]
[img]http://serc.carleton.edu/images/research_education/katrina/topography.jpg[/img]
the sad thing is that in this region of japan, most of the youth and young men have moved to the big cities like tokyo for jobs, leaving just old people around here. it's hard for them to flee and many of them got trapped out there. :feelsbatman:
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;28613236]Go to 18 seconds.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2JxqbgEAfA[/media][/QUOTE]
Did anyone else get the sense that those combining sirens made a really creepy ambience?
Mankind fucked up nature really hard so it's just a matter of time when it strikes back.
Now i am completely sympathetic to the tsunami and that is indeed scary but...
[url]http://tubedubber.com/#c3rqPPJPwLg:jLJLyneZGKc:35:100:225:0:true[/url]
It does go with everything.
Seeing all those buildings wash away makes me think about how much we are just guests on this planet. With a big enough disaster, large chunks of human civilizations could be destroyed in minutes.
Also, the car at the beginning is kinda funny... the driver is like "oh shit get the fuck out of here oh fuck"
Absolutely stunning.
[QUOTE=TedStriker;28614949]Mankind fucked up nature really hard so it's just a matter of time when it strikes back.[/QUOTE]
Because nature has the same sense of morality we humans do, right? :downs:
Honestly this looked more like a flash flood than a tsunami at first, not very shocking.
Then the water kept rising. And rising. AND RISING. AND THE RAPIDS GETTING STRONGER. Jesus, it pulled a house off!
That's probably what makes tsunami's so bad - not because of the wave (which is mostly non existent by the time it reaches the shore), but the fact that the sea level effectively drops 30 feet.
See the car driving away in the beginning? Imagine what that must have been like for that man. He was probably driving out of the city escaping for his life as the waters came. I hope he managed to escape before getting overrun.
I wouldn't really think that a house would just start floating along like a boat
When the houses started to tear off in the background and you could see the houses one by one rip apart every time, then i would be scared if i were there
All those dead people and animals.....R.I.P
The force of water is truly intimidating.
These poor people. I know at least 4-5 people in Japan right now but they are okay. For anyone that happens to be a skater I found this on the REAL skateboards site. Hope this will help somewhat. [url]http://www.actionsrealized.com/[/url]
the Japanese are the only peoples who could actually survive this: jesus christ
god damn, this is horrible.
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