Derecho! Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 New video running from Miyagi(sp?) on Today Show. It shows why the death toll is going to be horriffic. On one side of the shot you see an absolute wall of water descending on the city. On the other side of shot, you see cars driving normally along a roadway, unawares of what is about to sweep over them. Multiply that times thousands of situations and the death toll when the news finally gets around to talking about it honestly is going to be hard to comprehend. Also the population of that part of Japan is even more elderly than Japan as a whole. Based on some of the videos the first waves arrived 11 minutes after the tsunami warning sirens blew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I said it 24 hours ago and I'll say it again: It wouldn't completely shock me if the death toll exceeded 100,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieOber Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 This is a remarkable before/after mouseover of the tsunami zones: http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMolineuxLM1 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 New video running from Miyagi(sp?) on Today Show. It shows why the death toll is going to be horriffic. On one side of the shot you see an absolute wall of water descending on the city. On the other side of shot, you see cars driving normally along a roadway, unawares of what is about to sweep over them. Multiply that times thousands of situations and the death toll when the news finally gets around to talking about it honestly is going to be hard to comprehend. Is there a link to see this video your talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sojitodd Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Well now that I have seen more video and photos, the tsunami damage looks to be as bad as anything in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. There was one pic of a wrecked but still standing three story concrete building. It was completely gutted, and on the top of it was debris and..a demolished car-sitting there on the roof of a three story building like it had been parked there. Even if you had made it to the roof of this three story building, you would have been washed away. Unbelievable. I remember watching some show on tsunamis and a small Japanese city that had built a 'tsunami wall' with gates to protect the main part of the town-when the sirens went off, they would rush to get the gates closed. I think if I remember correctly the town was hit in the tsunami of 1933(close to/ the same area as this one), and was one of the worst hit towns then. Anyone else remember seeing this/knowing about this town and it's 'wall'? I wonder what happened to it with this tsunami? *edit-well I looked it up and think it was Taro, now part of Miyako, and it's wall was apparently not enough to protect it from this tsunami. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 not sure if it means anything the in the past hr but qaukes are creeping south and now a decent size done(5.1) where the two faults meet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Well now that I have seen more video and photos, the tsunami damage looks to be as bad as anything in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Of course the damage isn't as "spread out" as the Indian Ocean tsunami was, but certainly the hardest hit places in Japan were pretty much wiped out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellinwood Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 More links to new pictures and videos in this thread would be appreciated... if you see something new, post it! I wish Japan the best of luck in recovering... if they even can in some areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowtie` Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Yep-- totally. Video falls short conveying any natural disaster, but the disconnect is biggest with earthquakes. Video just doesn't capture it, because so much of it is what you feel-- the motion and the energy. It is very strange and scary. You both are so correct. Being in a earthquake really scrambles the senses. All your life the ground has been a constant. It does not move and provides a stable platform to which your sense of balance and location is tied. Suddenly what was always a constant turns in a noisy, messy variable. Your inner ear and your sight gets conflicting signals. You hear sounds that defie description. In short you are in sensory overload and your brain cannot find a logical center to find itself. The fight or flee is turned on but there is no where to go to alleviate it. You can see it in one of the vids that was posted earlier. An elderly lady crouched down in front of a garage. Her eyes are dialated to the max and you can tell she wants to be anywhere but where she is. But she is trapped because there is no where to go to get away from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Lizard Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Tsunami mitigation- No stopping a tsunami, but the Japanese have walls and gates that shut, that limit the damage to urban centers from tsunamis. Apparently the walls weren't quite big enough for the massive tsunami generated. I heard the wall in Crescent City, CA limited damage when the tsunami reached there, the waterfront area alone suffered serious damage.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 The video shown today is probably the scariest and most impressive video I have ever seen. Speechless doesn't come close to describing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phlwx Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Easily the best presentation of the devastation I've seen. Make sure and scroll your cursor over the images to see the before/after - http://www.abc.net.a...beforeafter.htm Jesus. The one where the farmland turned back into an estuary was pretty damn crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sojitodd Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Tsunami mitigation- No stopping a tsunami, but the Japanese have walls and gates that shut, that limit the damage to urban centers from tsunamis. Apparently the walls weren't quite big enough for the massive tsunami generated. ... I wonder how many people did not evacuate because they thought they were safe behind some of these walls? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkrangers Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 The video shown today is probably the scariest and most impressive video I have ever seen. Speechless doesn't come close to describing it. Anyone have a link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWeatherPimp Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 From MSNBC's Breaking News Twitter Feed: A volcano in southwest Japan erupts, sending ash and rocks up to 4 km into the air - AFP http://bit.ly/eMOUXO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 From MSNBC's Breaking News Twitter Feed: A volcano in southwest Japan erupts, sending ash and rocks up to 4 km into the air - AFP http://bit.ly/eMOUXO That's been going on and off for about 2 months now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Anyone have a link? Just the stuff on MSNBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Just the stuff on MSNBC. Which specific video Scott? Most of what I saw I watched yesterday. This just sucks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 just in "time running out a three reactors" thye may have to seal reactor number one the next few hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhotoGuy Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 BBC is reporting that more than 1,300 have been confirmed killed. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwt Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 1,300 probably is only the tip of the iceberg as well, with such a big disaster it'll probably be a while before we have a true picture of whats happened death wise. Just unreal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Which specific video Scott? Most of what I saw I watched yesterday. This just sucks... There was one shot of an area that looked like it was protected by a seawall and the wave just pushed right over the wall and into some city. Another video was a shot of what looked like a 20ft wall of water passing through some congested city. I bet we start seeing some pretty powerful video. It was video that I haven't seen, anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 seismologists just upgraded the quake mag to 9.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I mean...look at this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ1AFKmeix4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sojitodd Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Which specific video Scott? Most of what I saw I watched yesterday. This just sucks... There was one shot of an area that looked like it was protected by a seawall and the wave just pushed right over the wall and into some city. Another video was a shot of what looked like a 20ft wall of water passing through some congested city. I bet we start seeing some pretty powerful video. It was video that I haven't seen, anyways. When I went to 'BBC home' and that video was the first thing that popped up-with the tsunami going over the seawall, taking cars and ships with it. Also the car on top of the three story building is in the MSNBC photo gallery 'Japan Day Three' photo 12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 The video from Kamaishi City is just remarkable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kwt Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Saw that footage earlier on with the boat being thrown around by the water, its just amazing footage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhotoGuy Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 CNN: www.cnn.com Event.observe( window, 'load', function() { initialize();}); Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moneyman Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 USA lost many lives on 9-11-01 and now Japan has lost more lives on 3-11-11. Add the 2 dates together and you get ''12-22-12''. Not that I believe that sort of stuff, but that's pretty scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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