Recently surfaced video of Japan 2011 Tsunami (25 mins)

[morningfog]

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[msongs]

1. this vid has been on youtube for months n t

[morningfog]

5. Hence "recent" for a 2011 event.

[comrade snarky]

2. Surfaced?

Really? Poor choice of words there.

You might want to go ahead and edit that.

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

3. Every time I see a tsunami video

I feel like

[Egnever]

4. Incredible

The power of mother nature.

I hadn't seen that one. Thanks for posting it.

[4_TN_TITANS]

7. I hadn't seen that one either....

I can't imagine witnessing something like that.

[Art_from_Ark]

6. The fire department is telling everyone to evacuate

because it's a really big tsunami, but there are so many people who are just kind of standing around. Of course, I wonder how easy it would have been to evacuate that particular area, given the narrow roads and crowded conditions.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. The town is Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture

The location is Minami Kesennuma Elementary School. More than 400 children and adults took refuge in the upper two stories of the building, which was isolated from everything else by water and fire.

http://ameblo.jp/nakajimamiyuki2/entry-10980213928.html
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/気仙沼市立南気仙沼小学校

[hootinholler]

9. kick to find tonight n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

10. Google street view of the area where the video was taken

a few months after the disaster (drag the yellow "street view guy" to a couple of blocks down from the road bridge in the upper part of the map, left side of the river)

https://maps.google.co.jp/maps?client=safari&q=宮城県気仙沼市南郷&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x5f8894972f6e0d3f:0x706022e9ddee75d0,宮城県気仙沼市南郷&gl=jp&ei=mHsKUoW1EMnSsgbH04HQBg&ved=0CHkQtgMwCg