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Of all the dramatic footage coming from the devastation of the Japanese Tsunami, perhaps one of the most arresting images is of a flood of cars washing inland. Seeing a parking lot worth of cars reduced to so much flotsam and jetsam is a stern reminder of nature’s power, and a powerful symbol of what Japan is going through right now…
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I guess I shouldn’t complain about one of the snowiest winters we’ve had here in Minnesota. My biggest problem is my car is dirty, not floating away.
Dan
65 Corvair convertible, hibernating
My TR6 comes out of storage on April 4th!
I was fighting some flooding in my basement through the night. I saw this story when I was seeing to a pump at 5am and suddenly felt very lucky.
Mother Nature is one tough bitch.
Being a native of Johnstown, PA, knowing all about the 1889 flood, remember my parents stories of the 1936 flood, and having lived thru the 1977 flood I (think I) can appreciate what these people are going, and will go, thru. My prayers are with them.
As they say in the home improvement business, ‘water always wins.’ It’s amazing to see that even the boats are having a rough time of it. Lord have mercy.
Wow, that second video really shows how powerful the incoming waves are. It’s easy to think of cars and buildings as being solid enough to resist the water and force it to flow around them, then you see what actually happens….
History shows again and again how nature points up the folly of man.
TTAC using images of Globo. That’s unexpected! Good luck to all the Japanese. We are all waiting for the “big one” to happen at any day here in Vancouver. It’s long overdue and is supposed to be even stronger than the quake in Japan.
All of our local news here in Oregon has been talking about how this subduction zone earthquake is “just like” what’s going to happen off the Oregon coast when the Juan De Fuca plate decides to jolt us with “the big one.” At least we have a coast range to keep the Tsunamis from turning the Willamette Valley into an inland sea. Still, it’s scary to think of this being replicated just an hour away from where I’m sitting.
You know, most of these videos have reporters talking over them, or (bizarrely) sad music playing, or similar… but in the first one you posted, it’s just the sound of things happening, and the sirens during the second bit. Seeing it – and hearing it – like that is incredibly chilling.