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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's 2:46 pm in Japan, a moment of silence: Tohoku earthquake hit at this time 3/11/11
And then came the terrible tsunamis.
A documentary I like, "Japan's Tsunami Caught on Camera."
MFM008
(19,834 posts)laying in my moms room watching TV live drinking a diet creme soda.
not unusual except I had a stabbing pain in the gut, lower right side...............
yup appendix, I had it out the next day.
thousands of people died. RIP.
betsuni
(25,798 posts)it didn't cause any damage. Then I turned on the TV and saw that practically the whole Pacific Ocean side of the country was on tsunami alert. It looked like the end of the world. Then footage of these waves on fire swallowing everything and you're sitting there in your comfy chair in your nice living room watching it happen and can't do anything.
betsuni
(25,798 posts)But it's not on YouTube anymore. I recommend it if you can find it Trailer:
msongs
(67,496 posts)betsuni
(25,798 posts)that leave everything outside overnight. In the U.S. it would be like the Grinch stealing Christmas, nothing left by morning.
betsuni
(25,798 posts)right now and they showed a man returning to his abandoned house to find it burglarized, valuable kimono stolen. I asked my husband if he thinks that sort of thing happened a lot and he said it did, even though that stuff was probably a little radioactive. So a bit of looting...
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)betsuni
(25,798 posts)I find it amazing that after this monster earthquake some people didn't think there might also be a monster tsunami, or they trusted the sea walls, or assumed it wouldn't be bigger than the last one. The salesman in the documentary said he was from an inland area so didn't have the common sense to think about tsunamis, and everything looked normal with people walking around as usual -- suddenly his car was floating, And the guy filming the river while it overflowed and he thought, "It's just a little water" and the next minute had to scramble up a tree while the town floated by. I guess I always expect the worst case scenario and fear nature so much (especially water) that I'd be running for the hills whimpering while peeing in my pants.