Chriselle 158 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: big-will I think I can put up with the toilets more than the quakes myself! Usually, I can too....but I'm currently nursing a broken big toe and a knee sprain...=..lots of cursing coming from my stall. Link to post Share on other sites
charlotte 0 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Oh no, I don't like them either Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 I once ripped my trousers in a bad way trying to use one of those when I first got here. I think I was trying it the wrong way round. Made for an embarrassing second half of the day, I can tell you! Link to post Share on other sites
Error404 0 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Wizz Here's something. You know that kind of at-sea sea-sick kind of feeling you get when there's a small wobble of an earthquake? Anyone getting that sometimes when there actually ISN'T an earthquake... you know, all in the mind? Sometimes I kind of feel like that after all we have had the last month and a half. I have to look up at a light that easily sways to see if we are actually moving or not (and then check the JMA website to see if there was one or not). Absolutely. Strange sensation. I want it out of my head. Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Great that things really do seem to have calmed down these last few. Long may it continue. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 yeah I get that a fair bit, Error. That video is the first I've seen where it shows you the water receeding as well as coming in. Everytime I see a new one I can't believe how much water comes ashore and the amount of debris it sweeps away. Unbelievable. at the start you see 2 or 3 people running over an elevated walkway with the water still low, then it pans round to take in the devastation and finally comes back to the same walkway......theres nothing left of it, its under water and there is loads of debris piled high against the adjoining building.....I hope those people got up to the roof in time Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted April 26, 2011 Author Share Posted April 26, 2011 I actually have experienced that quite a lot both way back when and this time. Actually when there's a biggish one over in Tohoku we get that kind of slight sea-sick wobbling. Often times though I'm just imagining it. They get less with time, the old time heals thing. Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 I've had times when I thought I was just imagining it, but when I checked objective indicators, nope, it was the real thing. Reassuring to know that I am not imagining things. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 I think I might prefer the occasional imagined wobble than an actual wobble MO. Link to post Share on other sites
cal 6 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 This is the 6 main tv channels as the main event happened. NHK wins! Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted April 27, 2011 Author Share Posted April 27, 2011 Interesting as it is, my advice for anyone still feeling stressed out and trauma over the events of last month are best avoiding things like that... until time has well and truly done its healing thing. Link to post Share on other sites
xxx 2 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 That one bottom right sure took its time to butt in on normal programming Link to post Share on other sites
frannyo 2 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 I thought Tokyo got a shindo 6. 'Only' a 5 desu ka? Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Originally Posted By: xxx That one bottom right sure took its time to butt in on normal programming Wow, Papaya has really slimmed down lately, hasn't he? Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Yes Tokyo got a 5+ here in Yamanashi we got a 5- But a 5+ is quite a bit stronger than a 5- Link to post Share on other sites
fukdane 2 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 I'm not sure I want to relive it all just yet, I think I'll wait on viewing things like that. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Makes me wonder what a 6-, 6+ or 7 feels like! Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted April 27, 2011 Author Share Posted April 27, 2011 I highly recommend you avoid finding out! Link to post Share on other sites
BeerTengoku 35 Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 I'd like to try to. Without the possibility of dying though. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 The earthquake simulator truck is a pretty reasonable facsimile.. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted April 28, 2011 Author Share Posted April 28, 2011 No I don't think it is. Maybe the moving bit. But a big part of the horror of an earthquake is the fact that it comes totally un-announced, and it happens in the very place where you live/work - makine you feel exceptionally unsafe. Not some simulator. Link to post Share on other sites
BeerTengoku 35 Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 True, as most of us have found out, nothing can compensate for that sudden jolt; however, knowing what a 7 feels like would perhaps make us ready for the shaking and how it feels. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted April 28, 2011 Author Share Posted April 28, 2011 Yes, I suppose so. What I'm trying to say is that an actual real-life shindo 7 earthquake will feel VERY different to a simulator shaking. It would feel way way worse. Link to post Share on other sites
BeerTengoku 35 Posted April 28, 2011 Share Posted April 28, 2011 No-one is denying that, but then practising in a flight simulator is VERY different to flying, yet pilots spend hundreds of hours practising in those. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted April 28, 2011 Author Share Posted April 28, 2011 So they do. I bet not many people can carry out what they have 'practiced' at the moment of a shindo 7! Link to post Share on other sites
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