Tsunami Videos

Nitrofox125 · Post by **Nitrofox125** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 11:55 am

I'm just glad I wasn't there.

http://www.arasian.com/movies/tsunami1.wmv
http://www.arasian.com/movies/tsunami2.wmv
http://www.arasian.com/movies/tsunami3.wmv
http://www.arasian.com/movies/tsunami4.wmv

Unix · Post by **Unix** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 11:59 am

Wow. That's gotta be so scary seeing that coming at you.

*shudder*

Nitrofox125 · Post by **Nitrofox125** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 12:03 pm

Yeah, like those kids on the beach, playing in the waves
"Oh, look at the big wave!"
"Oh.... shiz...."
It really did look harmless right until it hit land. It's hard to imagine the force behind all that water.

Unix · Post by **Unix** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 12:16 pm

The one video of the guy just chillin at the shore is ridicuilous.

bash · Post by **bash** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:17 pm

From the videos it appears that not many took it seriously even though it was bearing down on them. I think we've been conditioned to think of these things as 100-foot walls of water and they really look sorta harmless coming in. In that first video we're probably seeing the death of that older couple as the man half-heartedly holds out his arm to them right before they get swept away. I'm sure his rescue *effort* would have been much more urgent had he realized exactly the immense power of what was coming in.

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 1:25 pm

That's some scary video. A couple of those I didn't see yet.

Bess · Post by **Bess** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 6:31 pm

It is indeed tragic that there was no warning whatsoever for these poor people holidaying in what was some of the worlds prettiest places.
As a result of this, there is to be a summit in Indonesia for an early tsunami warning centre to be established.
From what I understand, Japan had an idea of the impending disaster but had no way of letting the other countries know because of the lack of infrastructure.

Asrale · Post by **Asrale** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 10:57 pm

You kinda gotta wonder how some of those camera operators survived to post their vids on the Internet...

Lobber · Post by **Lobber** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 11:20 pm

I'd like to find more of those movies in downloadable formats. It's nice to see the whole picture, not just the CNN edited ones.

SolidAir · Post by **SolidAir** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:42 am

www.ogrish.com

Repo Man · Post by **Repo Man** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 1:28 am

Here is the best collection of tsunami videos on the internet, with mirrors and bit torrents, for your voyeuristic viewing pleasure...

Click Away

MehYam · Post by **MehYam** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:25 am

bash wrote:In that first video we're probably seeing the death of that older couple as the man half-heartedly holds out his arm to them right before they get swept away. I'm sure his rescue *effort* would have been much more urgent had he realized exactly the immense power of what was coming in.

I heard that the man made it but his wife didn't.

Thx for the links, frightening stuff.

Richard Cranium · Post by **Richard Cranium** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:39 am

It's always nice to find the good stories among all this. This little girl was very smart. She is a true hero!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... riton_girl

Unix · Post by **Unix** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:11 pm

That's awesome.

It's good to see a smart kid instead of the usual...

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:11 pm

Wow... that's quite a story, and I'm inclined to believe that the fact the girl's class was studying tsunamis was not just "coincidence". With all the death and destruction, it's good to see some of these little stories of hope.

...I know, I know. In comparison to the death toll, the lives saved seems inconsequential. But to those hundred or so on that particular beach, it meant everything.

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:41 pm

Holy Lord.

Perediablo · Post by **Perediablo** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:43 am

scary.

Perediablo · Post by **Perediablo** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:43 am

WarAdvocat wrote:Holy Lord.

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