Chriselle 158 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 I used to live about 2 minutes from where this is happening and drove this exact road every day. It gives me a shiver to think...WTF would I do?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQqmp9OOE1E Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 I've seen this one before...you gotta wonder how many of these people in the cars survived.....the guy that got out and legged it is probably a cert to be dead Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted March 1, 2012 Author Share Posted March 1, 2012 This vid is also weird in that the first part where the shaking is happening is in Izumi-Ku...I lived just down the street from that appartment building for my first year in Sendai. The tsunami footage part is in Miyagino-ku and I lived litterally no more than 2 minutes from there for my 2nd and 3rd years.... Link to post Share on other sites
norcal 5 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 In case of emergency, don't forget to shut your door, lol (@ :58). Scary stuff indeed. Still get freaked out when I see those videos. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Yes I have seen this one quite a lot on the news last year. Link to post Share on other sites
tokabochi 9 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Hard to imagine what was going through peoples minds living that, and some of the other scenarios that played out. A lot of people must still be haunted by it all. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted March 2, 2012 Author Share Posted March 2, 2012 Is it just me or do you guys also spend a lot of time with these kind of scenarios constantly running around in your head? It literally keeps me up some nights. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Seen this video a few times over the last year. Still gets me but I was glad to hear the person filming this survived. Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 It is incredible to watch. I don't understand why, because I live in a place that has never known a tsunami, but as a child I had recurring nightmares about a tsunami sweeping in. I have even had the odd one in the past 3 years in the current house we live in (which has ocean glimpses)..every time I wake I have the sense that it has been played out in my mind in preparation. Be pretty bizarre if it ever did hit Perth though! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 I didn't give it a 2nd thought until march 11th last year. I've always wanted to live by the sea....living here I wanted to move closer to the sea, but last year made me question whether I truly wanted to live right next to the beach or not Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Having scenarios running in your head is a good thing. But I´d rather go with the 6th sense, All you can do is to be prepared (for the inevitable and the unknown) Doesn´t freak me out at all. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 There's simply no words for just how gnarly you really are Jynxx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 (Actually, I can think of a few) Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 Brave and courageous, knows no fear... that sort of thing? The videos that get me the most are those of the tsunami just rushing into towns and moving all those houses as if they were made of paper. Those images will never lose their power. Link to post Share on other sites
HeatherLocklearRocks 1 Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 My dad can't get his tongue round the word tsunami. For him, it is always 'two-sammy'. One of those things that you simply can't properly prepare for, I reckon. Adrenalin and some amount of remaining common sense would hopefully get you through. But seriously it must have been a real wtf this just can't be real kind of situation. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 yeah......my first reaction to hearing that we were on a Tsunami warning in Shonan was "I'd like to go down the beach and see that"........sounds crazy now, but before March 11th last year I (and a lot of people, I'd guess) was more than a little blasé about the whole problem of tsunami. Not now. Of course we didn't get hit but I'd bet there were some silly buggers like myself who had the similar thoughts and didn't treat it with the alarm that was required Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted March 3, 2012 Author Share Posted March 3, 2012 Same here Tubby. My reaction to all the tsunami warnings we've had in the past was to step out onto the balcony to watch all the hubub of the fishing boats leaving the harbour. Now, if there's a warning I'm going to be gettin outa Dodge ASAP, too. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 I probably look at the jma earthquakpapago most days since Chuetsu, but not out of fear more I am now just interested in the subject. Before Chuetsu I knew nothing and wasn't interested either. Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Back to the Vid. What would you have done if it were you ? I would have got out on the roof earlier. Reasoning - 2 ways to die, you can drown by being trapped in the car and go under (another car might push it under) .. or crushed if you are out and fall in the water. I´d take my chance on the roof and see if I can hop onto something bigger passing by. But as soon as I see the rapids, oh oh .. I´ll drag out my seat belt out of the window as a hand hold. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Looks like there is a program on tonight NHK 9pm Link to post Share on other sites
fukdane 2 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 worth watching, on now. Lots of footage that I haven't seen before Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Watch this. But prepared to have some tissues. http://youtu.be/D_AxnoNrr_8 Link to post Share on other sites
69 5 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Started to watch that and ended up watching it all. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Will check that out later. Link to post Share on other sites
oblivion 5 Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 NHK 10pm each night this week Link to post Share on other sites
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