Have you'all seen this? Tsumani video??

beaglebiz · #1 08/13/11, 05:20 PM

http://www.wimp.com/japanesetsunami/
A video taken from a car, supposedly as the tsunami hit (it does not look fake). What would you have done if you were in the car?? Id probably be roadkill. Looks real to me

AR Cattails · #2 08/13/11, 05:56 PM

I'd panic at first but hope that I would quickly come to my senses and get out of the car. I'd try to swim to a building, a tree, anything before I got swept up into that swift current. I probably wouldn't make it. I can't swim.

That's still so sad to watch. One minute your living and the next you are facing death.

beaglebiz · #3 08/13/11, 06:02 PM

I totally agree. I think the moment to hit higher ground would have been during the earthquake in the very beginning of the video (but in a place like that, how would you know it could be a tsunami? they probably get quakes frequently enough to be used to them). I wonder what happened to all of the people, as there is one man mid way thru on top of his van, and many of the vehicles have broken out windows, but you dont see anyone much after that.

AR Cattails · #4 08/13/11, 06:07 PM

I noticed that too. I guess they tried to swim to safety and got caught up in the current and/or pummeled by lots of debri and died either way. I tried to see anyone in the water but couldn't.

tinknal · #5 08/13/11, 06:43 PM

It looks to me like this car was near the edge of the high water. I think in such a situation I would stay with the car as long as possible (remember that the tsunami is sweeping you inland), unless I ended up in a spot where I could reach a substantial structure of some sort. As long as the car was intact and and dry on the inside I would stay with it unless the flow reversed towards the sea and started carrying the car with it.

Cyngbaeld · #6 08/13/11, 06:54 PM

I wonder if that was a dash cam on a police vehicle? Couldn't understand anything except occasionally they said "tsunami".

That was so sad. I just wanted to cry.

**ladycat** · #7 08/13/11, 08:41 PM

Wow, that had me glued to the monitor.

**ladycat** · #8 08/13/11, 08:43 PM

Here's more information, read the video description and the top comment.

Wisconsin Ann · #9 08/13/11, 08:54 PM

Thanks, Ladycat. That explains it well. Stayed in the car, doing a tour?(wonder if that's actually meaning "surveying the damage" , dashboard camera, managed to swim to safety just before it was crushed. Just found the car and recovered the video.

VERY interesting video.

**ladycat** · #10 08/14/11, 12:05 AM

This is raw footage filmed by some Japanese people on Friday March 11th, 2011, during the tsunami.

According to the video, it was filmed in the Miyagi Prefecture in the city of Kesennuma, population 74,000.

Look at the map of Japan depicted on the right side of the screen. You can see where the water went completely across the country to the other side in a number of spots, especially both ends of the island.

**ladycat** · #11 08/14/11, 12:06 AM

More videos and pictures here: http://www.kanpai.fr/japon/tsunami-s...phe-japon.html

BoldViolet · #12 08/14/11, 11:51 AM

Unreal. I'm glad the guy got out.

Justin Thyme · #13 08/14/11, 01:50 PM

HOW does one prep for this? Amazing videos. The water just gets higher and higher. Those people on the hill... what must they have been thinking?

At first I thought that one of those pallets might be a floating little safety island but looking at the swirling cross currents and wild water... they'd flip unexpectedly. Even buildings being carried away.

Wow

MOgal · #14 08/14/11, 04:26 PM

Are there any videos of the water returning to the sea? I haven't found any.

chickenista · #15 08/14/11, 05:17 PM

In the first video..
I would have hopped the curb and pulled into the lot of the building to the left and gone in and up.
There was plenty of time to do so after you see the green circle.

beaglebiz · #16 08/14/11, 05:23 PM

I just wonder if he noticed the area circled in green...he might have been a bit hinkey from the quake. The person that posted the video circled it so we would notice it earlier

Dr. Mom · #17 08/14/11, 05:58 PM

I had seen all these videos previously and they were amazing. I'm terrified of water, so I would most likely be a goner from the get-go.

I never knew what happened to the guy in the first video since I couldn't understand the narrator or read the words on the screen. Thanks, Ladycat, for the "rest of the story"!

I was watching the beginning of the video when the water started rising from behind the vehicles. The person in the car in front of the car with the video jumped out on the right side of the car and left the door open. Then the person ran back and closed the door. That move might have cost that person their life because the water was rising so quickly. So sad.