dunefreak Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 Watching the videos and looking at the pics, it blows me away the power of mother nature. That has got to be scary as sh*t to see first hand all that water and rubble sweeping across the land. <object width="420" height="245" id="msnbc5d3bc6" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0"><param name="movie" value="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640"><param'>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640"><param name="FlashVars" value="launch=42030003&width=420&height=245"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed name="msnbc5d3bc6" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" width="420" height="245" flashvars="launch=42030003&width=420&height=245" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></object> Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Quote
seadoojumper Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 My sister lives in Brisbane Austrailia. There was a small wave that came up the river, but no major problems. Quote
dunefreak Posted March 11, 2011 Author Posted March 11, 2011 Some of the same this same footage was used in the first video, but check out those waves and also at 1:50 those houses getting demolished. damn! <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w3AdFjklR50" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> Quote
racegirl04 Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 They just said on the weather channel that this earthquake was 8000 times stronger than the one that just hit New Zealand and caused all their devastation!!! Unbelievable Quote
goodguys75 Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 I hope the price of sushi dont go up..... Quote
TheAlaskan Posted March 12, 2011 Posted March 12, 2011 Mother Nature can be an evil b*tch! Its still amazing at how much power and force is stored up.... Growing up on Kodiak Island in southern Alaska we had tsunami siren tests once a week so you got used to that, but when the alarm went off at a different time..... man it made your ***hole pucker and your heart start beating like crazy! I called my folks this morning and woke them up (forgot there's a three hour time difference now) but they didn't even know about it. Last I heard from alaska is a couple of beaches had 5 foot waves. (Nothing really new though lol) Quote
1BADYFZ Posted March 12, 2011 Posted March 12, 2011 Those vidos are amazing!!! I bet the price of gas is going to go up even mre now...sh*t!! God bless those people... Quote
ltr450rider Posted March 12, 2011 Posted March 12, 2011 I live here in Santa Barbara. We had a tsunami advisory which basically means some swirling waters in the harbor and a few big waves. I rode my bike out to the bluffs where I live in Goleta and it was all normal. I've seen higher waters when there is a storm swell. Santa Cruz got hit pretty hard. One of my customers lives there and works for the city. He was supposed to come down here but got stuck up there working for the city. He said he was up since 2 am, I guess they lost 15 boats in the harbor and most of the docks were destroyed. One thing I was thinking about today was, what if this happened here. Japan is well prepared for this type of event, they even have tsunami walls to protect a few cities. I cant imagine the destruction of this type of event here on the west coast. It would take years to recouperate what was lost. Quote
80grit Posted March 12, 2011 Posted March 12, 2011 After the earthquake hit, the 5 nuclear power plants went into automatic shut down. Water systems are now failed to the reactors. Water is used to cool the reactors. They are saying tonight that 1 of them " may" now be in meltdown mode. A really bad disaster "may" of just got a lot worse. Quote
dunefreak Posted March 12, 2011 Author Posted March 12, 2011 After the earthquake hit, the 5 nuclear power plants went into automatic shut down. Water systems are now failed to the reactors. Water is used to cool the reactors. They are saying tonight that 1 of them " may" now be in meltdown mode. A really bad disaster "may" of just got a lot worse. I've been watching that on the news following. Scary stuff! Hopefully they get it under control. They keep saying it shouldn't be a problem, but at the same time they are evacuating the area. Quote
dunefreak Posted March 12, 2011 Author Posted March 12, 2011 http://www.msnbc.msn...ific/?GT1=43001 "Shiomi said that even if there was a meltdown, it wouldn't affect humans outside a six-mile (10-kilometer) radius." "Some 3,000 people within two miles (three kilometers) of the plant were urged to leave their homes, but the evacuation zone was more than tripled to 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) after authorities detected eight times the normal radiation levels outside the facility and 1,000 times normal inside Unit 1's control room." Quote
dunefreak Posted March 14, 2011 Author Posted March 14, 2011 Check out the video on this site! http://gizmodo.com/#!5781566/this-is-the-scariest-first+person-video-of-the-japan-tsunami-yet Quote
seadoojumper Posted March 14, 2011 Posted March 14, 2011 Honda has shut down production of all motorcycles for now. Let's hope the price of bikes doesn't go up. Quote
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