Japanese Tsunami: 15 minutes of unbelievable helicopter footage

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This footage is incredible, the best one I've seen so far that captures the scale of destruction accurately.... The highway collapsing from water buildup and increasing the flow, and the stuff burning while continuing to move on with the wave... just wow.

i'm up to 7:15. and terribly frustrated. Everytime we are about to see a person or moving vehicle get inundated (or get away maybe) the camera pans away !!

surf's up!

  On 4/5/2011 at 8:12 AM, delet... said:

i'm up to 7:15. and terribly frustrated. Everytime we are about to see a person or moving vehicle get inundated (or get away maybe) the camera pans away !!

yeah, choppercam operators are well trained to avoid showing that kind of thing on live tv. they'll always zoom out or pan away.

  On 4/5/2011 at 5:47 PM, chaosmachine said:

  On 4/5/2011 at 8:12 AM, delet... said:

i'm up to 7:15. and terribly frustrated. Everytime we are about to see a person or moving vehicle get inundated (or get away maybe) the camera pans away !!

 

yeah, choppercam operators are well trained to avoid showing that kind of thing on live tv. they'll always zoom out or pan away.

yeah! how dare they!

also, this is weird but it popped into my head while watching this.

do you think the director of Akira had seen previous footage of what the end result of a tsunami looks like? in the sense that it just accumulates so much destroyed matter that it takes up this weird meshy-skeletal makeup to it?? and it just keeps extending and covering up all that it touches?

i couldn't stop thinking about that when watching this.

I have a mixture of extreme sadness and horror knowing countless bodies are in that mess, probably never to be discovered or identified, and the poor people unable to get away from it - and all while I'm watching it from a safe distance.

Poor Japan.

my girlfriend and i had a joke before this about things 'ending like an anime'. meaning something becomes gigantic, or black and slithery, or both, or liquid, and destroys everything.

and then this....is exactly that...and we can't make that joke any more..

I kept thinking of the waves in Ponyo...

speechless

unbelievable footage..