Posted on 12/28/2004 6:54:25 AM PST by dob
http://media.militaryphotos.net/tsunami/tsunamiphuket.wmv
Video of the vawe hitting Thai resort Phuket.
What a name for a resort... Phuk et!
Careful, my virus shield tells me that there's a Trojan Horse in that link!
Sounds like a false positive.
Pronounced "poo-ket".
Thank you for the warning. If I am interested in a link, I generally wait a while and scroll down the thread for just this reason. Really appreciate it.
That first syllable is POO, not fuh. Boy did I learn THAT ONE the hard way.
A SLOW site. I'll see if Norton detects a virus.
http://media.militaryphotos.net/tsunami/tsunamiphuket.wmv
Lordy, it's s-l-o-w
With that caution in mind- this is a previously unseen video, and rather chilling-- it was taken from an upper floor, which gradually flooded.
My Norton AV scanned it and shows nothing. [It was updated on 12/22.]
Mcafee here, updated yesterday. Nothing.
It's worth watching, IMO. God have mercy.
bump to watch at home.
I was commenting to a friend that it looks like they are almost lookie-loos. Like a wave had come in a few moments before that wasn't bad, and they didn't fear this one.
You're right, definitely worth watching, and I imagine that this video ranks pretty low on the horror scale compared to other locations. However, it was chilling to watch those two men who stood there too long and then were swept away. I hope they survived. I would think they did. Frightening, nonetheless.
I don't think they survived. The water kept coming and the junk was piling down on them. After a minute or two under and being bashed around, they'd likely be unconscious. In events like that, hanging around to watch is BAD BAD BAD! God help them.
It's a WMV file, so I didn't think it could contain a virus/trojan/spyware. Scanned my own comp - seems to be clean. (Often, Windows/Virus software will warn about *anything* being run straight off the internet.)
There are more videos at the same location:
http://media.militaryphotos.net/tsunami/
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Even if someone had had a line with a monkey's fist ( throwing knot ) and a place to secure it, a human being is a heavy, heavy thing to haul up, even without water pressure working against you.
But the way the water just did not stop rising over the second floor? Where do you go then?
see if you can download this at work
That's horrible; the water just kept getting DEEPER, when I would have thought it was have gotten shallower as it passed them by; "thinned out," if you will.
What does that mean?? It looked like the Titanic sinking!
I saw the older couple. Dreadful.
People who aren't familiar with the ocean have no conception of its raw unstoppable power. Water may seem soft, but with that much force behind it, it is like liquid steel.
I was corrected on the pronounciation today.
Foo Kay.
I did the same thing.
I am familiar with hurricanes effect on the ocean, but I've never seen hurricanes do anything close to that. It seemed to me they could have drowned right in that restaurant -- and that goes against everything I've ever thought about how water dissipates when it reaches land.
BTTT
amazing video here. the thailand shot, it looks like a hurricane storm surge at 5x speed; that is, its not a tall high speed wave, but rather looks like a very fast storm surge. those two people, that man and woman who were swept away, I doubt they made it.
why hasn't this Phuket video made it onto CNN yet?
You won't believe this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1309626/posts
One of the first things that struck me as out of kilter was how the water seemed to stand for hours after the wave had passed-- I saw many clips of people wading in waist deep water, trying to push bicycles or motorbikes. I always thought that once the wave had gone by, the water would drain, but it did not seem to.
wow. it reminds me of those stories about the french taking vacations during the heat wave, leaving their elderly parents at home without air conditioning, and many died. what has happened to the european cultures?
that is true, I know myself, living at the water, a storm surge retreats quickly. but it depends on the topology, any area even slightly below sea level or where the water can enter, but then gets cutoff from escaping back out to sea, will be flooded.
CNN has the woman who shot the Sri Lanka clip on right now - she is back in the UK already - her tour group had a charter plane and got them out.
I think you may start seeing alot of these euros vacationing in Miami next year.
>>I was corrected on the pronounciation today.
Foo Kay.<<
There is a Thai restaurant here in Bellevue called "What the Pho."
Pho is pronounced "fuh." I don't eat there.
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