Why you might not want to live next to the ocean.

[Lionel Mandrake]

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/tsunami_japan_1.html

[progressoid]

1. I remember that vid.

Stunning.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My god, how horrifying...

And with the ocean levels rising...

[Art_from_Ark]

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]

4. I only could get a few bites out of the Japanese

"Hurry! Hurry!"
"This is bad."
"No way!"

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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]

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.