Posted on 03/13/2011 11:21:18 AM PDT by pillut48
Bring them to the third world, USA.
Please. There were men, women and children in those cars, boats and buildings.
For many years, they regarded even buying a used car as an embarassment. They exported the trade ins to other countries because nobody would buy them.
Right now on NHK World Live TV the tsunami survivors are starting to give their eye-witness accounts. So sad.
Not like American college kids when I as in college and law school (1961-1967). Anything that ran more or less reliably was pure luxury compared to the alternative—nothing at all.
As the video pans briefly to the highway, where you see cars driving down the road. It’s upsetting to think that the people in the cars were washed away!
Japan discourages ownership of older cars (I think older than 5 years) by a system of ‘safety inspections’. The older the car the more rigorous and expensive (like 1000s of dollars expensive) the inspection is. So you just don’t see older car models on the street.
Unreal indeed . . . what forces of nature. If not terrorism or civil disobedience, there’s that.
The power of that water is impossible to miss isn’t it.
If someone tells me a tsunami is coming and I better leave, I’m leaving.
That’s why is is called a “Tidal Wave”. The tide comes in and comes in and just keeps coming in.
More like a flood running uphill!
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/waves/tsunami.html
The wave moves at different speeds depending on depth of the ocean.
Loss for words. INCREDIBLE.
The two times I’ve seen most frequently stated are 15 minutes and 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Journalism sucks in this whole thing. They’d have the nuke plants going up in mushroom clouds.
Friday I saw a figure of 88K dead in one town, haven’t seen that one repeated and haven’t seen other estimates since then, except for the vague “possibly 1000 dead”. After watching the videos, 1000 appears unfortunately foolish. We could wish it were only 1000.
The third video the BBC brought up global warming and it’s threat
Even if the car is new if you have any significant body damage it needs to be repaired asap. Not allowed on the street.
The video at Sendai airport of the water coming in has a time stamp of 15:57
So if the earthquake was at 1446, it was 1 hour 11 minutes before the tsunami hit.
I had heard it may have been less than 20 minutes. That makes sense as the tsunami wave can travel at over 500mph in the open sea - more slowly in shallow waters. The big quake occurred only 80 miles off shore of Sendai. That actually calculates to about 10 minutes. Someone somewhere ought to have a time stamp for when it actually hit at Sendai.
I have been listening to the NHK feed and if I heard correctly one town was hit by the tsunami 9 minutes after the quake. I thought I heard them say another town was hit 60 minutes after the quake.
The death toll is going to be huge.
During the live helicopter shot with the tsunami going up the river you can hear the announcer say the earthquake hit an 1 hour and ten minutes ago.
That time stamp could have been off on the airport camera or it could have been the time stamp from a show that was airing it.
It is still unclear to me. It seems like it would have hit sooner than an hour since it was only 80 miles off the coast.
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