Wow, you can see that huge boat that gets crushed under the bridge trying to get away at the beginning.

And how about that tugboat looking thing, it falls over and bobs back up, only to get totally dissected by the ship above it.

man stuff of endless nightmares

New as of when? I saw this on the local news yesterday, and those guys are anything but scoopmasters.

Still, it is pretty shocking.

For values of "amazing new footage" approaching "posted here yesterday".

Yikes

Wow, that first boat that got sucked under the bridge just got torn to shreds

This one is pretty freaky (new window)

Is the water black because it's taking all the topsoil with it, or what?

Awesome story on Sullivan about a man clinging to his roof for 2 days, floating in the ocean, and then being rescued. shiat like that makes me irrationally happy.

Boozed_up_from_the_shoes_up: Here is another view of the tsunami coming ashore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

I can't believe I fell for that.

stuhayes2010: You'd think footage like this would make people respect nature, but it won't. They always rebuild in flood plains and put sky scrapers on big fault lines.

Yeah, because we should all live and work where there's no possibility of any natural disasters. Then we could live... umm.. nowhere.

Stupid Japanese. This happens every year and they just keep building back only to get 8.9 earthquakes and 30 foot tsunamis. Every year! I mean, it's not like the Japanese actually use the ocean for anything!

Well, that certainly will be appearing as a torrent soon.

This has just been running in my head non-stop:

DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, 5
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell, 10
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then;
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

For some reason, this is on my mind

There's a ferry on my roof. Your argument is invalid.

Pilikia: Confabulat: This one is pretty freaky (new window)

Came here to post this if no one else had, glad you did. I found this one the scariest of everything I've seen so far, probably because the audio is so crisp and it was filmed from "head height" instead of from above.

I think its very hard for people to imagine something like this happening, and videos like this help. I read an article a long time ago about how humans are mentally incapable of imagining the destruction of their home. It had to do with war and how people just can't fathom that their house, their town, their familiar places will turn into war zones. The idea that that shed you used to play baseball with your friends behind will one day be an air raid shelter and you will watch the place you love be thoroughly and completely destroyed. It's one of those "sure, it happens everyone else, but not HERE" type thigns.

Videos like that one shatter the illusion. It helps us imagine our own streets and our own homes washed away. Try to step outside and imagine a huge wall of water coming down *your* main drag. It'll knock you on your ass if you imagine it right.

unfknreal: If these videos have taught us anything, it's that Japanese cars are surprisingly buoyant.

I thought the exact same thing

SinisterDexter: I expect we'll see lots more as more people get power to charge their smartphones and access to the internet. Not to mention all of the video that might eventually be recovered from the flash cards of those that didn't make it.

Funny thing that might help the Japanese in this circumstance: They have more ham radio operators per capita than any other country in the World. That have 1.3 million hams in a population of about 130 million people, so about 1 out of every 100 people in Japan is a ham operator. The US is second with 680,000 in a population of 300 million, or about one out of every 441 people is a ham.

Why does that matter? Because when all the infrastructure goes down in an emergency like this, often ham radio is the only way to communicate.

dittybopper: Why does that matter? Because when all the infrastructure goes down in an emergency like this, often ham radio is the only way to communicat

You apprently have not heard of the method referred to as "yelling really loudly".