Quake Rocks Japan

[Hawk]

2012, it's all coming to an end bitches.

Woody Harrelson was right.

[Eagaholic]

I felt the same way Eagaholic about the cars trying to drive away while the wave of debris was headed towards them. I remember even seeing someone on bicylcle. It looked like some of the cars on some streets had no clue what was about to hit them. Sad.

Kind of like the sickening feeling you got when you watched the people jumping from the building....

One scene seemed to capture it in a nutshell. The one where people were driving, probably frantically, just a few hundred yards away from the shore to get away as the wave approached them. But the road was parallel to the beach with no other direction to go so even trying to escape was completely futile. Within a minute the land was submerged.

[Don Ho]

I thought the same thing as igy did at first.  Ok, earthquake in Japan, 7.9, been through this drill before, wake me when its over. shtein, the earthquake we had here several years ago (remember, during the Birds/Saints game) was a 7 and it was centered right off the Kohala Coast on the Big Island. No tsunami.  Once I saw that footage from Japan and those waves and it was upgraded to an 8.9, I got a little concerned.  It's just a matter of time before we do get hit here and I for one am glad we were prepared and people didn't screw around.

You could definitely see the surge and the water recede big time when it hit.  They showed the reef off Diamond Head fully exposed as one of the homes on the beach had a huge flood light in the yard.  It was almost high tide and the reef would never be exposed that far out under normal conditions.  Water just stopped.  What made it worse it was 3:30 AM and you could only see as far as the flood light could shine.  No way to see if anything big was coming in.   

[Diomedes]

This is all because of global warming.
(3 minutes)

lol

[Rome]

Absolute devastation.  Just incredible.   They'll be finding bodies for weeks after this.

[Diomedes]

nuclear plant explosion...motherfarger this isn't good

[phillymic2000]

cnn now reporting 9500 people unaccounted for.

http://www.cnn.com/

[Rome]

When nuclear scientists start going on national television acting scared as farg it's time to get concerned.

MIT dude was just on Today and he looked shtein-scared.

[MDS]

so is this funny yet? cause i made my first japan earthquake joke 2 days ago.

[Diomedes]

Did anyone laugh? 

That's how you know if it's funny.

[Don Ho]

so is this funny yet? cause i made my first japan earthquake joke 2 days ago.

Well?  You gonna share it with us?

[MDS]

Nope.

[Don Ho]

My hero is that lady at the grocery store in that one clip trying to hold up the shelves in the wine aisle diring the eqrthquake while everyone else is running for cover.  I want to marry her.

[Don Ho]

Son of a bitch, earthquake moved the coast of Japan 8 feet and shifted the Earth's axis!

[Diomedes]

inside Sendai airport as tsunami sweeps through

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_6iDBoOvb0&feature=player_embedded