I just watched this. 👌

That is absolutely terrifying. Those poor people.

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Same. I was staying in a hotel for work and hear commotion coming from the tv I left on while I was in the shower. Couldn’t believe it.

Tsunamis are so interesting and terrifying to me at the same time.

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This might be a dumb question but in a big tsunami like this one do all the sea animals come crashing in as well as all this other debris? I’m watching these giant waves roll in and it’s basically the entire ocean meeting these cities.

We also forget, too, that during the 2004 tsunami, way less would be carrying around personal recording devices in Thailand, so we can only imagine with this how bad it was there.

(My cadaver dog and I helped with cleanup work in Phuket and the aftermath was reminiscent of this)

I hope this will stay in our collective memory for a long time, but I have zero confidence that it will last long enough.

Japan has old stone markers telling people to not build below this point, because that’s where the “last big tsunami” hit.

Japan is incredibly save, compared to how many different natural disasters they are prone to. But when nature starts acting up, we are still not much better than a butterfly in a storm.

>western lies about the Ukraine war

Can you give some examples?

They are horrible and I know what you mean. But I’m sorry, a giant wave roaring higher than city skylines coming at you is objectively worse 😂

There's also one called ' telephone to nowhere' or something. It is powerful.

I remember this being a proper formative memory, I was 15 and NHK's live broadcast was being shown on pretty much every news channel in the world, This was at around 8am UK time I think while I was getting ready for school. I always used to put the BBC news on whilst getting ready in the morning and I just couldn't look away. ended up getting to school around 2 hours late because I just couldn't stop watching.

Like I remembered the boxing day tsunami just but was too young at the time to really understand it, The live feed of a ten meter wall of water just bulldozing everything it its path just made the word Tsunami real in a way noting else can.

Never could bring myself to watch the footage back but just watching the doc has transported me right back to that morning, harrowing stuff.

And, nuclear waste in some instances!

I was amazed to see the footage of people already trying to clear the street after the earthquake, talking about the incoming tsunami. I hope they made it out.

18:30 ish for completely unreal images of a city being carried over fields by a black wave. This is something else, I've never see anything like this.

This, and the coverage of the great floods in Zeeland about 70 years ago this year.. I don't know if Japan could've prepared for this somehow, I don't know if Dutch dikes would ever have stopped any of that.

whats amazing, i went to japan two months after. and everything was mostly cleared

15:57 - 俺の車は終わった　－ My car is finished

and then "I will never forget it, never"

I've watched a ton of footage on the Japanese tsunami so I'll give this a watch later. I can still mentally see the absolute destruction of some of those videos and it is unbelievably terrifying. One of them starts out with the camera person on a 30 foot or so high bridge and by the end the bridge is completely submerged. I'll try to post them later if I remember.

I flew into San Francisco the morning after it hit in Japan. There was a man on my hotel shuttle who was getting in from Japan. He was working at the Fukushima plant when it happened. He offered to stay and help, but they were quickly gathering up foreign workers and shuttling them to Tokyo to send them home.

Watching this live felt a lot more disturbing to me than 9/11. I still can’t watch the footage because I keep getting flashbacks to how I felt.

Difficult to watch. The scale this happened on... viewed from the helicopter. There's a scene where people are looking down a narrow street as they begin to see this slurry of cars and water spinning around like a washing machine grinding all kinds of debris* Doom just meters away. In addition to cars, mud and rock and salt water, it must have been chuck full of fuels and oil... a cocktail of nasty shit.

Very eerie to know that watching some of the videos of the morning of, there's a high chance a large number of the people you see in the videos are now dead.

I have a friend who lost his sister in this. It was really awful.

He was in the U.S., and initially she was just reported as missing. During that time he was holding out hope, but so so frustrated at not being able to do anything about it. To cling to hope, knowing that each passing day makes a good outcome less likely...awful.