Of all the footage taken, this compilation shows the most devastating possible. I pray for the fine people of Japan 12 years on. For a people who are so proud of their beautiful cities, this is unimaginable. Truly.
We visited Japan some years ago. We were in the city of Osaka and it was eyeopening to notice how clean the city was. It seems to be a Japanese mind-set to keep places clean and tidy. There was not a speck of litter on the streets anywhere. Every vehicle on the road, buses trucks vans and cars were all immaculate, no dirt or grime on any of them. It was very surreal. We crossed a flyover during a bus ride and we looked down onto some rooftops and spotted a couple of workmen painting a flat rooftop white. This rooftop was only visible to traffic on the flyover. Japan is an amazing country and they are fascinating people. I doubt there is any other country in the world with this amazing obssesion for cleanliness.
Can we talk about New Orleans and Katrina? Just how much did America come forth in a timely manner to help those 'poor folk' recover? OR, did they? I went to New Orleans in 2017 and was still able to still see the devestation of Katrina!!!
There’s never a World Cup soccer match Japan plays that doesn’t include a story about how Japanese fans stayed and cleaned up the trash in the stadium after the match.
@@maryfehrenbach9893 The devastation you saw in 2017 was not from Katrina. Katrina never struck New Orleans…it flooded the city 2 days after its passing due to levee failure in Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi Gulf Outlet. Hurricane Katrina devastated the Mississippi gulf coast, since it was east of the landfall near the Louisiana/Mississippi border. The run down houses and barren land you probably saw has been due to the terrible politics and a lack of planning/ zoning that has plagued the city for decades…due to corrupt city, parish and state governments. New Orleans is not the city it once was. The Mayor, Parish Sheriff’s office and local NOPD have failed the people of New Orleans and Jefferson’s Parish. The FEMA, State and local funding for rebuilding has been pissed away and lined the pockets of everyone from A to Z. A large majority of home and business owners refused to pay for flood insurance, and received very little to build back. It’s a shit storm and I live less than 1/2 hour away. I never will return to NOLA for a day, an eat or a game. Crime is rampant and law enforcement is not enforcing laws. There use to be zero violent crime in the French Quarter, now it happens daily…shootings, murders, rape, car jackings, assaults and robberies are an everyday occurrence. The city use to heavily patrol the French Quarter (protecting the bread and butter of the city) but not any more. Over half of NOPD have quit or resigned and hiring new officers are at a standstill. The current mayor does not support the police and continues with defunding certain departments. Bourbon street is no longer fun to visit for a day…it’s dangerous and scary. Jackson Square, Decatur and Royal Street and even the River Walk is unsafe. Sorry…but it’s the truth. Many who lost their homes over 15 years ago refuse to rebuild and fall blighted. The city hasn’t taken an active role in clearing these properties.
The depth of horror those folks experienced that day is unimaginable. Like that wave was on a mission to devour every living thing in it's path. Stopping for nothing, like it was alive. Like it's life depended on it. My heart goes to the survivors. Hopefully they have found some peace and moved forward with their lives.
It is very sad to watch. The devastation is complete. What strikes me as just stunning is the incredible volume of the noise thats produced by the sunami ripping apart every structure and carrying it away. The cracking and popping and breaking and crushing creates a huge volume of everything being further broken and crunched as it moves and tumbles and crushes against every other thing in water as it all moves along like some sick parade. All of the materials that just minutes before was homes and buildings snapping and breaking itself and everything down more into smaller pieces as it churns and grinds against everything else.Survival after being swept up in the water and debris was brutally short and horrible to imagine. When the camera shows the people watching they are in shock and devastated. It must have been so horrific that it was almost impossible to believe it was real. And that loud roar of snapping,breaking and popping just going on and on must have made it impossible to just look away or close your eyes to escape it. There was no escaping the sound of destruction and its hideous cracking.
I believe over 100 tsunami evacuation zones were hit by the waves, also many areas that were believed to be high ground turned out to be not high enough. I believe the tsunami turned out to be worse than predicted
Yeah very good point, its sad to say that most of them running are no longer with us and they were given plenty of warning. The ones that annoy me are the ones just sitting there watching it coming and then it was too late to do anything!!!
@@darrenhartell people unfortunately have a little too much faith in predictions and in what safe guards exist: looking it up, some people felt they would be safe behind the seawall, plus the fact the both the earthquake and tsunami were apparently severely underestimated in the warnings. Look at Beryl; In the week and a half before landfall I was watching the forecast and keenly aware that it had a good possibility of affecting, if not hitting Houston. But almost the entire time it was forecast to hit Mexico or the southern Texas coast. I asked my employer what our plan was for landfall when it was clear it was at least headed toward us. I was told nothing special, we would just get a lot of rain. Up to practically the 11th hour it seemed everyone expected to just get brushed by the storm, not hit full force. Even in my own effort to try and plan for catastrophe, I was held back because everyone else thought it would end up being no big deal. It was "only a cat 1". So underestimation can severely dampen authorities plans for a populace's evacuation and preparedness
To hear the woman in the background crying…sorrow and tragedy is not a cultural thing…it’s a human emotion. We all share, although we may not understand the depth, in this human painful experience.
Watching this I’m struck by the questions those watching the devastation must have asked themselves once the water receded .. “where do I go? What do I do? Where are my family, I’m hungry what can I eat?” I cannot begin to imagine how frightened everyone must have been.
Totally, I too think of what that first night must have been like, fires burning in piles and ruble, fire and water seems so unlikely yet some places experienced a lot of fire. Just nightmarish. Hunger, thirst, cold, scared, dark, worried for your future many were missing spouses or children or parents. Imagine the children whose home and parents are gone and their in the dark with fire around and probably occasional popping and cracking of materials. So horrible and sad. I'm not the least bit religious but when things like this happen I think what must the religious do to kid themselves that a god is watching over us and he loves us etc. It would take some very deep mental gymnastics to align these events with a loving caring benevolent god.
In other videos I've watched of this disaster there were voices of emergency workers speaking over a loud system. And their voices didn't sound 'desperate'. I can only hope they were saying "Run, Run, Run to save your life". "Run, run, run, run"!!!!!! When I watch these different videos and see people 'standing' around I damn near scream at them to run!!!!! I do understand that this was a 'once' in a lifetime disaster but why you see the water and debris rising at such a rate does this not scare you into taking action to find higher ground? And yes, my heart absolutely breaks for those who lost their lives....the sadness in my soul is still overwhelming!!!! It's the end of 2023 and I still cry for them!!!! Such devastation?
Miki Endo and others died because they were alerting the people to go to higher ground until it was too late for them to escape. The height of the waters was 62feet+ and they were in a 4 story building.
I wonder why some of them waited so long to flee. You could hear the sound of all that destruction yet some waited until it was too late. If you watch closely at 41:45 you’ll see a lady in black fall and it appears that a 😊roof runs her over. What happened was she ended up on the roof and when it got close to the people on the hill they pulled her to safety. There’s an interview with her on RU-vid.
I don't care how good of a swimmer you are, if you get caught in that fast moving water with all of the shit in it, you're probably not going to survive
Every time I see footage of the 2011 tsunami my heart breaks for the people of Japan. It was such a great loss of life and utter devastation. And I’m sure every time they suffer another quake they’re traumatized again and again. I live across the ocean from Japan in the same “ring of fire” and we have approximately 500 quakes a year, and my fear is always the water. The quakes scare me, but the ocean scares me a lot more. After the 2011 tsunami our shores were littered with debris that made its way to us. It was so surreal to look at random items that were once pieces of someone’s life. It almost felt like I was invading their privacy, or even attending a funeral. And as ruined as it all was I still felt like I wanted to return it to them.
There is a documentary series on netflix about Fukushima, everything, everything has been very shocking, it seems like science fiction. The Japanese people are strong, very strong, in reality you are admirable.
I watched this as it unfolded, from New Zealand...i was striken by helplessness... The noise, the destruction, and the repeat waves... then, worse, things went on fire, and it was so cold it was snowing... The People of Japan lived through Hell on Earth... The work that has been done since this is amazing. To those who were never found, i hope their souls are at peace..🙏🙏🙏
Tsunami's have a wavelength several MILES long. That's why they look more like a raging river than a breaking wave. Everything you see in a tsunami event is a byproduct of the enormous wavelength. An 80ft. wave at Nazare' Portugal is huge but it's wavelength is between 200-250 meters. Surfer's ride them and they do no damage. A tsunami may be only 20-25 ft. in height but it's wavelength is measured in MILES so it keeps coming and coming and coming.
Now thats is one absolute strong house foundation and framework. Double thumbs up to its builder for build a such building in full compassion, love and respect.
In a video compilation you can see a man on top of a house floating out to sea. It was likely the most helpless feeling for those on shore who saw him to know that no one could do anything at the time to help him! So much devastation and loss of life from this disaster! 😢
It's good that the people of Japan know the drill on this for the most part. They have high ground and they know this can happen. A lot of those poor folks in 2004 had nowhere to run or hide. As well as far less emergency infrastructure. Relatively it could've been hailed as a success against that level of disaster if it weren't for the melted down reactors.
Yeah..unlike most natural disasters, this literally wipes out everything. As you said your home and all your personal possessions ,and possibly your family.Also Your job for a lot of these people. Your vehicle. Your stores that you shop at. If you have children ,their school. Your neighborhood too.I know that a lot of the people are still struggling with rebuilding their lives and financially, more than a decade after this happened. And at the time it happened it was also wintertime. A considerable number died from hypothermia in the following days before help could get to them. If you have watched a number of these videos that isn't too surprising since you see people only wearing their work uniforms, not even a winter coat. Because they thought they would be returning to work once the threat was over.Instead they were stranded outdoors or on rooftops.And the temperature dropped and it started snowing. I can't imagine how it felt until help arrived.
@@thaismatsumoto Да,я тоже знаю,что такое без одежды в Марте и когда идёт снег.Выросла в Сибири,среди сопок.Эти места на видео очень похожи на мои родные места.Поэтому пока смотрела,у меня волосы на голове шевелились от ужаса.Я представляла свой родной городок .😢😢😢
As I watched this horrifying destruction unfold its ugliness back in 2011, Now it's 2024 has all the destruction from this massive Tsunami been all cleaned up. It makes me shudder to think how long it would take to clean up this widespread massive mess and to think of all the Homeless people of Japan that have been affected by this Tsunami But thank goodness for the EWS Early warning system that people were able to escape to the hillside. If anyone has any good updates, I'll read them in the comments below.
Everyone? I don't think he was blessing everyone in this video unless blessings from god means total death and destruction, is that what you mean? If I believed a god was in control I think I would just keep that to myself on days or videos like this. He is definitely not blessing EVERYONE as you say. Thats a bizarre thing to say! "So tragic. God bless everyone?" What TF?
No comeco da escada,se forma uma sombra negra,parecia vir atras do homem que o bombeiro desceu e pegou,o bombeiro olhou pra tras,como se sentisse algo,e dai a sombra se deafaz.
At 42:30 the person in the red is trying to help the person in dark blue the up the stairs(?) and the dark blue get taken by the wave and the one in red barely escapes getting taken aswell. The person in the dark blue I think did not survive. RIP
I can only wonder how many people would still be alive if the immediate reaction was "Earthquake?! Time to head for the hill RIGHT NOW." Too many people stood around watching until it was too late.
Sadly true. Survivors keep saying the same thing: "Evacuate sooner, farther, and higher". Something like half of the designated tsunami evacuation points in Minamisanriku were inundated. People who took timely appropriate action were killed, simply because nobody had ever planned for a wave that huge. Even if you reach a designated safe area, if you still have energy keep running to higher ground.
True, I'm certain that it's a case of the boy who cried wolf too many times. They'd heard it time and time again and ran to higher ground too many times and nothing ever happened so they see everyone else blowing it off so they do too. And then this.
Was there someone inside the house that was washed away at 23:20 ?? It looked like the front window curtain moved how it would if a person were to look out. Maybe something just fell over and moved it…I hope it wasn’t a person.
So are you saying "Nature is powerful" like this was nature's doing not god's? If nature is more powerful than your god why would he have made it? Right after insinuating nature is the powerful entity responsible for this you state Power of Almighty God? What does that mean? Your just insane is what I tend to think and your logic escapes me but Im sure it somehow is crafted to make you believe your loving all powerful daddy isnt to blame for this? Either that or youj ust got scared shitless by seeing this and think you better do some butt kissing right now lest your next on the mass murderers list. It's all too sick and depraved.
Оператор видиосвязи в первые видит такую трагедию поэтому снимал грязную воду и разбитые дома , слады, помещения , А надо было снимать ЛЮДЕЙ успели ли они добежать до холма на возвышенность или что стало с машиной которая пыталась выехать из зоны бедствия.
41,34 надо было помочь женщине ,а ты даже не спустился не пытался помочь и убрал камеру специально чтоб не видеть успела ли добежать вот такие вы в нутри.
Why live anywhere there is danger of rain? you may be hit by lightning! This was a very horrific tsunami and there was just no predicting for it. They already had safeguards in place and they failed. You cannot plan for a meteor hitting your house out of no where
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