Merged 8.8 quake in Sendai, Japan

This is an extended hi-def video from a single chopper flight. You've probably already seen short clips from it.

* Occupied vehicles blown off roadway at 2:00. Many more seen in the vicinity will not make it.
* Two people running for a black vehicle at 4:10. They won't make it.
* Lots of vehicles (and at least one pedestrian) trying to outrun the flood at 6:00. I think they will all lose.
* More occupied cars at 8:30 won't make it.
* Traffic-jammed occupied cars and numerous pedestrians at 12:30.
 
Amazing video from a reporter walking in a Chiba City park. Suddenly the ground becomes moving jelly with numerous water main breaks popping up around him. Calm terror.
 
icerat said:
This video shows that clearly. I had to go back and forward a little to really get a sense of the scale, and the zooming in and out makes it tough, but once you match the road the bus that barely escapes the water at the end with it's location in the "dry" valley you suddenly realise how high the water did get.

Clearly people in this location had some warning, but you also see cars going in the wrong direction :(
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The video below illustrates a few things for me. The most important perhaps being that wave height is a very poor indication of the destructive power of a tsunami and its speed. Though they are at the water edge to warn people to move to higher ground these trained men nevertheless linger as the current can quite clearly be seen to increase and the pier begins to flood. The camera stays on as they scramble for their fire engine and drive up the hill encouraging people to move faster and faster (and urging the driver not to slow or stop) as the town behind them is engulfed. The man with the camera was interviewed at a shelter uphill but I don't see that clip online.
 
This is a music video to the Sakamoto Kyu former #1 hit Ue O Muite, better known as the Sukiyaki song.

Everything was shot in Japan mostly in the Tokyo area:

 
Belz... said:
...should get their priorities straight.
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I don't think anyone is saying pets should be rescued first, or have a higher priority. Perhaps that woman felt she was doing something when there was nothing else she could be doing to help at this point? Perhaps some elderly person who lost everything might find comfort if a lost pet is found. Just because it would break my heart to leave my 2 dogs behind in a similar situation doesn't mean I have my priorities wrong.
 
r-j said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12733393

The US said it had moved one of its aircraft carriers from the area after detecting low-level radiation 160km (100 miles) offshore.
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Well that certainly makes me feel better.
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Military personnel on helicopters returning to ships with the U.S. 7th Fleet registered low-level of radioactive contamination Monday, but were cleared after a scrub-down. As a precaution, the ships shifted to a different area off the coast.
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I don't think they meant the levels were detected 100 miles off-shore.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake
 
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Last of the Fraggles said:
I'm maybe just arguing over something for the sake of it, but I'd hate to think of a relative or loved one dying because the rescue services were busy trying to rescue a cat of someone who refused to leave without it.
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After Katrina, there were delays trying to coax people into leaving without their pets. But the issue was never about separate rescues.
 
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Bluespaceoddity said:
The video below illustrates a few things for me. The most important perhaps being that wave height is a very poor indication of the destructive power of a tsunami and its speed. Though they are at the water edge to warn people to move to higher ground these trained men nevertheless linger as the current can quite clearly be seen to increase and the pier begins to flood. The camera stays on as they scramble for their fire engine and drive up the hill encouraging people to move faster and faster (and urging the driver not to slow or stop) as the town behind them is engulfed. The man with the camera was interviewed at a shelter uphill but I don't see that clip online.
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Wow, look how innocuous the beginning of the wave looks. Just a little overflow, looks like you can outrun it or wade in it. We do a terrible job of teaching people about tsunamis. These videos will help.
 
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