Amazing video of Tsunami from car....

[Bennyboy]

http://fragg.me/video/japan-tsunami-inside-car
Man oh man. How scary is this?

[Xithras]

1. Right alongside a gasoline tanker....

Coulda been a big boom.

The guy is actually very lucky. It looks like his car was jammed into a house at the end of the video. Many people perished when they were trapped in their floating cars and swept out to sea, where they eventually sank.

[Tallulah]

2. Stunning

Sad, heartbreaking, horrifying, very disturbing.

I don't know what else to say. It hurt my heart to watch it.

[mod mom]

3. Wow! Does anyone know if Yu Muroga survived this horrible ordeal?

[Gin]

4. wow...scary as hell....interesting his car never died until the end.

the wipers kept going...nowhere to go but with the flow.

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. funny how the passenger in the other car gets out, then politely closes the door

or maybe the others were yelling "CLOSE THE DOOR!"

[Warpy]

5. He survived!

That's how the video came to be salvaged. His delivery truck was caught inside a garage bay (that last shot) and he was unhurt.

I have to wonder about the guy who abandoned his car (going back to close the door!) and the one who got out and sat on the roof of his car. Those are the guys who probably didn't make it out alive.

[Bennyboy]

11. Yeah me too

I wonder if they fared well or not.

I know one thing< I ma gonna ask about my cars floatability next time I buy one...

[Warpy]

12. I live in the high desert which is major flash flood country

and I know better than to drive my car over a dip in the road that's got water flowing over it. 6 inches of water will sweep a car away out here and I've seen refrigerators and even a garden shed going down some of the arroyos when the storm wasn't even visible.

[mod mom]

17. Excellent news! I hope his mental state is okay. What a horrible experience.

[Broderick]

6. Wow

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Watch it on full screen...

It feels as though you're right there in the car with him...

I've seen a lot of tsunami videos. This was nearly the scariest, by far...

SO glad he survived!

[dembotoz]

8. wow you never think having a car that floats is a real asset.

[AsahinaKimi]

9. I have seen this before.

At the start you see the earthquake..it really rocked everything!

[progressoid]

10. Woooow.

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. wow. so you can survive a tsunami if your car floats gently.

[lpbk2713]

15. I would want to distance myself from that tanker truck.

And from the high tension power lines I saw not too far away.

[marions ghost]

16. good god!

one scary video

I would probably been one of the ones who jumped out... As stoic as the Japanese tend to be, I imagine there are plenty of cases of PTSD in the survivors.