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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhy you might not want to live next to the ocean.
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/tsunami_japan_1.html
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Why you might not want to live next to the ocean. (Original Post)
Lionel Mandrake
Jan 2013
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progressoid
(49,990 posts)1. I remember that vid.
Stunning.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,620 posts)2. My god, how horrifying...
And with the ocean levels rising...
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)3. That video was posted on DU back in 2011
just a week or two after the Japanese tsunami. The town was/is Minami Sanriku, and the layout of the town practically doomed everyone who was between the ocean and the train tracks, as there were only 2 ways to get around the tracks. Even on the other side, there were only a couple of main roads that could have been taken to get to higher ground. I really feel sorry for everyone who was affected by that disaster.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)4. I only could get a few bites out of the Japanese
"Hurry! Hurry!"
"This is bad."
"No way!"
siligut
(12,272 posts)5. At the end, the guy in the light red shirt, helping others up, gets caught in it himself
I guess people didn't realize how fast and powerful it was.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)6. From a distance, it looks slow.
But as it gets closer, people start to realize that it's not slow at all.
Trains are the same way. That's how people get killed crossing railroad tracks.