steady. That video jumps around so much I had to stop every few minutes to let my eyes calm down because I was getting dizzy, nauseous, and headachy from all the wild bouncing and swinging around.
Also, the person taping made bizarre choices. As the water was coming in, almost the only steady shots he made ignored the moving water and settled on the cars and buildings that the water had not yet reached at all, and the water was usually was not even near enough to see during those shots.
He kept swinging the camera around from buildings to trees to people, so fast that your eyes couldn't even focus, and when it came to rest, it was often on nothing of significance.
I think he was so excited that he couldn't settle down on any one shot. Instead, he swung the camera around like a hyperactive 3-year-old who had just ingest a whole cup of sugar! Very frustrating viewing experience. I wanted to smack him upside the head and yell at him to settle the f**k down and focus on one thing at a time!
Having said that, though, I think those people in the video were nuts. You couldn't pay me to stay that close to a force that powerful! I assume that the Japanese, for the most part, do understand the extraordinary power of tsunamis. But they kept approaching close to the river channel to get a closer look, as though they believed the water would just stay in the channel! At least the cop was able to shoo them away--and at least he was wise enough to know when to get the heck out of there himself.
I'm a coward. I would have kept running until I reached the highest, most distant point I could reach before the water broke over the wall!
I was sure that the water was going to take down that cross bridge--and at one point it really looked as though it would.
It was especially amazing when the tsunami got so deep (high) that it was not only over the wall, but almost as deep as the buildings nearest the road along the wall.
BTW, did you see at 19:38, there was a man in the water! Poor fellow. I wonder how he ended up in the water., and I sure hope he made it out in one piece.
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