TEPCO Photos Show Tsunami Striking Fukushima Plant

[somone]

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/east-pacific/TEPCO-Photos-Show-Tsunami-Striking-Fukushima-Plant-122220874.html

TEPCO Photos Show Tsunami Striking Fukushima Plant

The operators of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have released a new series of photographs showing the tsunami that washed over the plant on March 11, creating a nuclear crisis that will take months to resolve.

The photos were released Thursday on the website of the plant's operators, the Tokyo Electric Power Company.

The first photos show the massive surge of water beginning to breach the tsunami barrier offshore from the plant on Japan's northeast coast, then pouring over the barrier until it disappears under the white foam.

In later pictures, the water washed up to a nearby road, inundating some of the plant's buildings and leaving several cars bobbing in the water.

[tavalon]

1. Months to resolve?

I know I'm mixing metaphors here, but how could anyone type that with a straight face?

[david_vincent]

2. They didn't say HOW MANY months...

... so technically, they're correct.

[tavalon]

6. Yeah, but they would be more correct if they said they are dealing with

the biggest nuclear disaster in the history of mankind and they don't have a fucking clue how bad it's going to be or what the fuck they are going to do, but hey, that much honesty might bring on the rapture.

[aquart]

3. Except they already said the QUAKE damaged the reactors first.

[malaise]

4. Wow!

Where's the quake damage?

[FourScore]

5. Wow. Even though they now know that the problems began with the earthquake,

I'm sure this didn't help matters. I now wonder if those 2 young men found dead in the underground tunnels really died from the tsunami or from radiation. I guess we'll never know.