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Japan Quake Moment #5: Local TV Cameras Capture Tsunami Ground-Level Arrival in Northern Japan
- Posted on March 12, 2011 at 11:09am by
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Editor’s note: This video is part of an ongoing series on The Blaze featuring some of the Japan earthquake’s most breathtaking videos. We have numbered them sequentially so that it is easier to keep track. We will post them throughout the day.
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mauijonny
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:19pmBless their hearts – they’re so polite that they use their directional signals in the midst of a tsunami (the vehicle at the very beginning of this vid:) We got some action here, but mostly just a very long night. Say your prayers for the folks of Japan – this is far, far from over.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 3:31pmUnreal…but it is!
Report Post »joan k
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 3:01pmSo sad to see so much devastation and the thousands who lost their lives. I pray for Japan.
Report Post »SafeguardOurLiberty
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 2:30pmMy son lived in Japan for three years. He taught English in the elementary/middle schools. We went to visit him when he was there, which was about 4 years ago. Japan has to be one of the greatest countries in the world. The people are hard working, very proud, and super nice. They take care of their cities, streets, towns, railways, subways, public places and their countryside. You could eat off the ground, it is so clean there. The subways and train stations were spotless, the public bathrooms were so clean you could live in them. Their proud traditions that they have kept alive for centuries are seen everywhere you go. They are a kind and meek people, and never once did you have to worry about anyone robbing or mugging you.
Report Post »When I heard about this, my heart ached for these people. They do not deserve this. But I have faith in them, they will pick up and go to work and clean up this mess. They will not complain, or whine, or ask for help. They will do what they have to do, and they WILL get it done. That is the kind of people they are.
WhiteFang
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:58pmNice tribute to a admirable people and nation.
Report Post »Hawker
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:17pmyea right , ask a lot of WW2 what they think about the japs, ask the ones that surived the Battan Death march. How soon you forget history .
Report Post »support the U.S.A. and the hell with the rest of them. We won and we still spend billions on potecting them for what ?
Grandpa's Attic
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 2:13pm@Teachermitch32…
Remembering the glory days…
Ticket punch’in, this Augie obviously wants to be a journalist.
My response is to Augie, go to godaddy.com and find a domain name that is close to yours. Perhaps rent a website, Augienews.com, perhaps you only get two people or 200 hundred, who read your posts there, but hey it is more useful then posting on this blog or message board. Or you can just get a twitter account and fig. how to get followers. if your clever they will follow u, if your not you will get more from the likes of teachermitch32
Report Post »Constitutional
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:56pmGod bless them all. After Obama‘s party is over I hope he does a better job of expressing America’s concern for our friends in Japan.
Report Post »texanpatriot
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:49pm4-11 National Day of Prayer – I am in. How about a minute of silence at 4:11 while Glenn is on the air?
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 3:07pm@TEXANPATRIOT~~~
Count us in, too. I agree with the one minute of silence on Glenn’s Show. Think we should take one minute of silence at the top of each hour all day long.
I think GOD would be glad to hear from HIS kids.
Report Post »Grace4all
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:45pm…….who seek Him
The mighty power…………for those who think the “Flood” is a fairy tale, please consider:
Genesis 7:11 In the six hundreth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, (earthquakes) and the windows of heaven were opened.
I used to think it was the “rains” that caused the flood. I don’t recall ever being taught the first part of this verse. Re-read the verse) Got it? ” …were all the fountains of the great deep broken up”
Just sayin………….
These video’s and especially those still “pics” from theatlantic.com posted by theblaze on Friday really bring the power of our Creator into focus
Report Post »ocean1994
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:11pmwow! that car made it around that corner at the last second, they even used their blinker!, they will have quite a story to tell, i hope they made it
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:00pmUnbelievable. It appears as though the town is floating down the street.
Report Post »RugDog
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:39pmThe silver lining in all this? No Sheen or Lohan news at the moment!
Report Post »RugDog
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:34pmI HOPE THEY DON’T HAVE UNIONS over there to rebuild. It’ll NEVER get done, and it’ll be way to expensive.
Send Jesse Jackson, use him as land fill.
Report Post »SafeguardOurLiberty
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 2:50pmNo, they do not have unions in Japan.
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:33pmI went against an Augie in my HS football days. I was a mere 5′10″ and 183lbs. while he was an emmense 6′ and 230lbs. the entire Elk Grove bleachers were yelling, “Agie, Augie, Augie”, encouraging him to do what they were used to him doing to other teams as middle linebacker. Unfortunately for him, on every play (I mean every play) I would hike the ball, pop off themline and punch his ticket. He just didn’t have the where-with-all to use what God had given him to thwart his opposition. Kind of like you and your post. Your ticket has already been punched because you don’t have the W-W-A to use what God has given you. Me thinks you may have about 230lbs of useless crap between your ears. Better learn to use it if you want to be successful in thwarting the opposition.
Report Post »Impeach Obama NOW!
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:30pmDon’t bother Obama, today’s his golfing day.
Report Post »REETZBEE
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:22pmMakes me realize how little my problems are at the moment.
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:13pmPowerful. Someone tell me again how humans are affecting the earth? BS.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:10pmthat sure isnt something you see every day.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:05pmBad times. Thoughts and prayers to those in Japan. When everything goes wrong, that feeling of helplessness is simply overwhelming.
Obama still appears to be the ‘Anti-Christ’, just my opinion. We still don‘t know if he’s with us, or against us.
Report Post »MS70
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:16pmObama runs politics no different than any other far left democrat. If the true anti-Christ is here he is hiding until his time.
Report Post »saneasylum
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:04pmHow insignificant and little we know about our own geological history. People are amazed by this. It has been going on for millions of years, we weren’t around to document it.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 11:54amMakes us realize how insignificant we really are on this Earth.The planet goes about its business and we have little to say about it.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:02pmIt does make our problems look very insignificant doesn’t it – it seems at times that the earth is trying to throw all of us off! The power of a tsunami always amazes me! Awesome video!!
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338lapua
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:54pmWe as humans still have dominion here.Think about it this way, a tiny fraction of the land mass has changed. This has been happening throughout geologic history. We see the evidence. Many grand things have happened, and we survive. Of course we need to help, and of course we need to understand how small we are INDIVIDUALLY, but we are the ones placed here by God. I am amazed at how well people in Japan are doing.They are helping themselves,dealing with the hand they were dealt. Those are the people I most want to help. The video is truly breathtaking.
Report Post »GdHUs
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 7:10pmwalkwithme1966hippie Thanks for plugging that wonderful family oriented organization, Planned Annihilation uh, I mean Parenthood. I’m sure that 11 year old girl in Cleveland, TX and her 18 “friends” saw that delightful video too. It’s thoughtful of you to remind kids that sex is great and that simply everybody does it. In doing so I’m sure PP can count on a steady stream of those wonderful abortion customers.
( I’ve been reading too many Snowleopard posts. I’m starting to sound like her)
Report Post »obama_binpharteen
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 11:54amI just read that the 8.9 quake appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis. Amazing and scary…
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:45pmWhat I heard is that the map of Japan has changed permanently. The waves arent going out….therefore those areas are ocean now. It is truly beyond my comprehension.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:51pmAnd a direct result of man-made global warming, eh climate change.
Report Post »southerngal
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:34pmto 338lapua
Report Post »I suspect that they will just reclaim the land by moving soil to those spots now lost.
Onefarwanderer
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 11:49amThe power of the surge is just amazing. Surreal to see cars and houses floating by. That cameraman was pretty brave to be so close.
Report Post »Takeoutthegarbagenov2
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 11:36amThe picture of the old man on the roof is one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:13pmHeartbreaking.
Report Post »drhunt
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 11:34amAmazing video…the surge just continues to roll forward…never seen anything like it. God help those people, and if the nuclear rods melt down, and there’s a defect in the underlying cement floor of the reactor, God help us all.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 11:49amIt is truly amazing, and while I pray for those affected, I noticed that the boats navigated best, followed by cars, trucks, and buildings – in that order.
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:07pmThe reactors are cold-water designed – NOT/NOT gas graphite. They cannot “melt down” and even if, as it seems at least one did, the water level were to expose the rods to air, it would, by design, stop the chain reaction.
This is the key difference between modern/western nuclear power plant designs and Chernobyl.
Also, the explosion was caused by hydrogen and while it destroyed some outer walls, it did not impact the metal containment chamber – after which, measured radiation DECREASED. Again, suggesting that rods were exposed to air, and just as designed, when so exposed, the chain reaction stopped. They will cool the reactors down, restore main water cooling while using temporary methods and prove that despite a 9.1 quake, existing nuclear power technology is quite safe.
For now, we need to stop using the term “melt down” and cease referring to this event in the context of Chernobyl.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:58pmThank you, LK…I been trying to find a good…explaination? to what is/could happen at the plants.
Report Post »sparky21
Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:17pmDale, Thanks for the LOL. God is with Japan. He will prevail.
Report Post »johnsell
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 11:32amINCREDIBLE! My heart goes out to Japan.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 11:35amEarthquakes, wars and rumors of war. End times people.
I am so sorry for these people. There must be hundreds of thousands dead.
Report Post »absolutely
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 11:42amCould a person feel anymore helpless. May god have mercy on the Japanese! Absolutely
Report Post »Arminianism
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 11:46amVery very sad, the videos tuff at my heart each time I see them…
Is sad that the left is now using this to push their global warming agenda.. Yes, they are saying the earthquake was a result of global warming..
Unbelievable…..
Report Post »Bounder
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 11:52amHouses were floating away! Houses!!!
Report Post »watchmany2k
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 11:52amOK, I give. 9-11, 7-11, 3-11. Enough with the elevens already !
I high hosey, that we enlist the Black Robe Regiment and on 4-11 next month we have a National Day of prayer and attonement !
It can’t hurt, and very well may help. I grant you that some of the 11 events are man created, however I do not find it a coincidence that this Japan disaster occured on the 11th. To me it reads, beware, be warned, and be ready.
I can think of no better way to be ready than the body of Christ on earth Unified in a day of prayer. 4-11 seems appropriate
Report Post »NOTALOTTAYITTAYADDA
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:25pmIf I had a wish, I would teleport the Westbourgh baptist church congregation to the epicenter, in hopes their “message” gets them beat down. Maybe throw that fiction writer phillip zelikow in for good measure. Did U hear what that SOB said at the 50yr Nagasaki memorial. It pissed the entire country off!!
Report Post »No mention in the US MSM about it at all.
White Devil
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:54pmIt feels like the world is crumbling from the middle east burning with hatred, to the liberals here in America foaming at the mouth with rage and hatred for something they are not entitled to, to the earth quakes and other earth caused disasters. The world I remember is a distant memory. All I see is strife and pain. I pray these things bring us closer to God. Not the unitarian B.S. that “all paths lead to god”, but rather the one true God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:20pmEvery one of these I see makes it all the more remarkable the way the people of Japan just pick up the peices and start over again; the scenes are horrific, and yet they continue on.
Best wishes, and God be with them.
Report Post »Boojer56
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:49pmI’ve been on the planet for 50+ years and it seems like the earthquakes are becoming more frequent. Maybe its just the fact that technology as improved and we have 24 world news coverage. It sure is scary though.
Report Post »TXMD
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 2:39pmI’m off for Japan with an Emergency Medicine Physician group. We depart from LA tomorrow evening. I depart TX this evening. God bless you all. Say a prayer for everyone.
tmcd
Report Post »patriotwoman
Posted on March 12, 2011 at 6:01pm@TXMD: May God bless you and your co-workers and keep you all safe and strong. You are most surely needed and will be tremendously appreciated. You, your physicians group and your patients are in our prayers.
Godspeed sir.
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