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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

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

*shudder*

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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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.

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

That's awesome.

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

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.

Holy Lord.

scary.

WarAdvocat wrote:Holy Lord.

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