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Terrifying New Tsunami Vid Shows Residents Trying to Outrun Giant Wave
- Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:31pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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A new video has surfaced a month after an incredible tsunami engulfed Japan. It allegedly shows terrified residents in Iwaki City trying to outrun the giant wave. It starts with villagers screaming in horror and running through the street:
Within seconds, the wave whips around a building and gobbles up everything in its path:
Buzzfeed’s Matt Stopera says this “might be the scariest 57 seconds I’ve ever seen.” That’s an accurate description:
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Comments (107)
jeff.cooper
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 5:37pmThat Blair Witch-like video as disturbing.
Report Post »truthortradition.com
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 5:26pmAt 0:27 there are two women at the bottom of the hill… at 0:29 they are gone. I’ve flipped through these seconds many times in hope I could find them safe, but I’m not seeing them. Does any one see otherwise?
God bless the Japanese people.
Report Post »hcartexas
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 6:58pmThey should’ve walked faster.
parlayer
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 8:05pmwhat an ignorant reply
Report Post »imreddog
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:07amTo HCARTEXAS
Report Post »You are a *****. Please leave Texas ASAP… you are stinkin up the place.
TheAmericanRifleman
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 5:07pmIt’s the day of the Lord for millions around the world every day. Are YOU ready?
Report Post »PammyUSA
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 5:30pmYepper Yep! Just waitin’ !!!
Report Post »karenjerry
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 5:01pmWow……………….and I thought I had problems!!!!
Report Post »Everything in life is relative. If we dwell on that thought and trust God…..we will endeed prevail when things seem to be out of control.
Each time we think life is overpowering us…….stop and consider this scene.
Rememeber “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” (2nd Timothy 2:7) He isn’t saying we will not have these feelings, however, if we are saved……Fear come’s from satan—- NOT GOD…..remember that!!!!!! He provides His children with power, love and a sound mind. Isn’t He precious?
TheAmericanRifleman
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 5:12pmThanks for putting things in perspective.
Report Post »TheAmericanRifleman
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 5:01pmThe horor, the horor…
Report Post »caprica
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:53pmI got email from AOL……I must remain politically correct or they will cancell my aol account !
Report Post »welcome to communism…..they check on everything we say ! same as Iran ! except these comminist fricks are paid ……they are the brown shirts …..and they do not have any right to dictate ! what I can say or not ! over my dead body !
TheAmericanRifleman
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 5:10pmWhat?
Report Post »ProudInfidel
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 7:09pmWhy not tell THEM to pound sand & get a new account somewhere else? That will cut their membership down by 10%.
Report Post »imreddog
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:04amI was on AOL for a very short time…. years ago. It took a great effort to get their crap off of my computer. I suggest that you leave AOL and never look back.
Report Post »zman173rd
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:30pm@ caprica: what did you say that got the almighty AOL upset? use morse code or pig-latin or maybe high school english taught 40 yeaars ago. They’ll never figure that out.
Report Post »The Trident Report
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:51pmReminds me of the citizens of Nanking running from Japanese soldiers. Manila citizens too. Think about it.
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:38pmwow.. that is some scary stuff…
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:27pmwow.. how frightening for them.. i can not imagine
Report Post »TheAmericanRifleman
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 5:09pmOne second standing on the ground, the next, being flushed through a building.
Report Post »temple62
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:23pmHow much is a video clip worth??? They saw it come and didn’t run for higher ground? Unbelievable.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:13pmGosh, I may go back to ‘regular’ TV, where the ‘news’ mews censor such SCARY stuff!!! I could not imagine the speed in which that wave overtook everyone, sweeping ‘floaters’ (like buses) that could tear a person in half! (Actually, thanks for the video, it may just save some lives!)
Report Post »Khedewia
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:07pmThat’s horrible! How incredibly frightening. I cannot imagine. Japan has suffered so much lately. We need to pray for them.
Report Post »Ladytarheel
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:00pmWe Pray-He Listens–Everything works out for his glory.
Report Post »FTN
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:57pmWe need one of those to hit the White House … during dinner… with guests.
UlyssesP
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:05pmIdiot.
Report Post »FTN
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 6:54pmYo ULYSSESP — you’re invited to dinner.
Report Post »DeltaHawk
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:54pmMy heart breaks for thse poor people, Please do’t make jokes about it. may God have mercy on us all.
Report Post »American Saint
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:51pmThat’s just so terrible. I couldn’t tell if the older lady being helped along made it to the hill or not. It’s just awful to think of how many other scenes like this one happened.
Report Post »Smitty1969
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:12pmI don’t think so, the waves looked like they at least a quarter way up the hill with buses. Second ting is the reaction of the people desperately saying NO NO NO!
Report Post »Smitty1969
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:21pmIt looks like she got washed away at the bottom of the hill. There are two frames you can see it in 720pHD full screen. Follow the man in the blue hat, he is just ahead of the elderly woman. I an pretty sure but cant watch it again.
Report Post »American Saint
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:24pmI‘ll take your word on what you saw because I can’t watch it again either. This video pretty much ruined my day.
Report Post »TXTOM
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 1:05pmThe man is yelling “Hury hury! Come up here [please] !” The poor ladys‘ taking thier time don’t seem to realize what’s going on until they see the water. Even then they seem too overwhelmed by the the reality to move quickly.
Report Post »His groan at the end seems to be of disgust, saddness and helplessness. Aren’t we all.
My heart braks for them.
Whiskey One Seven
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:49pmThe news doesn‘t give a good picture of what’s going on. This is reality. God help’em.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:44pmWhy is there always the “bigfoot” shaking camera, focusing on the ground and the trees, problem right when the action is just about to happen?
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:06pmBecause maybe helping people up the hill is more important than holding up the camera and making sure you’ve framed that award winning shot.
Report Post »Lucid Loon
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:11pmI suspect that the cameraman forgot to keep the action cleanly “in-frame” when his feet decided it was bit wiser to run uphill as fast as possible! Even from the footage we DO see, this is clearly scary stuff. We can only imagine what it would be like to be standing there when the wall of water came crashing in. It probably would be hard to even hold your bladder — let alone holding a camera steady!
Report Post »TheAmericanRifleman
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 5:03pmHeraldo would have got it right.
Report Post »ISLAMICO
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:43pmThe punishment of Allah is always near.
Psychosis
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:52pmidiot
Report Post »EnoughBS
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:06pmCrawl back into your desert hole. Free society doesn’t need you.
Report Post »termase
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:10pmMoron!
Report Post »TheAmericanRifleman
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:59pmIslams first victims are the Muslims.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:14pmI can tell from your comments on this and other post, that your head is fill with things a dog would not eat and a cat would want to cover up. Some where in your past life some one filled your head with buzzard vomit and PIG SQUIRT! May your 72 virgins be male pigs and goats…
Report Post »nocomment
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 12:54amYeah, and I wonder if your pal Mohammed is still ‘tappin’ nine-year-olds in the afterlife?
Idiot.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 5:09amWait until you see what the real creator does to Islamic nations! Read Zecharia 14. Your flesh will be consmed where you stand and your tongue and eyes will be consumed in their sockets.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 5:14amWho is doing the punishment when an islamic nation has an earthquake?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:43pmMeanwhile back at the White House, Obama continues to spend more on helping Libyan rebels than our friends in Japan.
Report Post »JPRAustin
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 5:56pmmeanwhile back at the White House…wait a minute, the potus isn’t in the WH, he’s on the golf course…
Report Post »ANewActivist
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:39pmAnd that was just the beginning of their nightmare. Japan will never be the same, at least not during yours or mine lifetime. The poor people.
Report Post »mrlogan3
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:37pmWow. That’s all I can say.
Report Post »and to the republic
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:37pmthe cool dudes taking there time had a change of heart real quick……..the videos coming out of Japan are worse than any movie could make them…..
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:38pm@AND TO THE REPUBLIC~~~ It’s going to be like that after the Rapture occurs and the people left behind will not realize until too late what is already upon them.
Report Post »imreddog
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:57amTo Grandma.
Report Post »There’s no such thing as “The Rapture”. That came from the “vision” of a young girl about 160 years ago. The harm comes when people/preachers take the Bible out of context in an attempt to prove a lie. STUDY THE BIBLE as Jesus told us to do.
poverty.sucks
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:34pmAre you better off with Buddah today as you were 2 years ago?
and to the republic
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:41pmhey, did you get authorizarion to use that line?
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:48pmNames have been changed to protect the guilty.
YouGottaProblemWithThat
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 10:32pmOh Redneck, no one believes your over the top BS posts. The Japanese people are wonderful and have been great friends to America. Look around at all our stuff and any one could see that the Japanese have contributed a lot to our high standard of life. I only wish more were open to Christianity. Blessings to the land of the rising sun!
Report Post »ClassicalLiberal
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:34pmyikes!!!
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:35pmFrightening, my heart and prayers still go out to all that have lost everything including loved ones. Thousands didn’t make it and will never be found.
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:45pmThat brought a tear to my eye. What a frightening experience for those dear people.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:48pmGod above help these survivors; this is the truest sense of the word a Hand of God moment when such devastation is unleashed, and people survive by a miracle from above.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:51pmThis is a old prayer I learnded from a missionary from Japan:
“Unto those who have moved into the setting sun, so you now rest with the Lord and His Father. May all the good and just you have done, with love and honor, be carried on in the memories and lives of all you have touched, and continue onward into the time ahead by those folks as well. For your life is done now and here, yet the love you have shown, the faith you have practiced, and the grace of He who is above us all, is moved into the eternal from this day forth.”
Report Post »redneck
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:52pmIf only deer were as responsive to trucks, I wouldn’t have to drag my dinner off the road.
Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 3:55pmHoly yikes!
Report Post »redneck
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:00pmooh ooh aaauh I won’t help you, oohh aauuhh I holding camera aaauuhhh
Smitty1969
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:09pmI lived in Japan for a few years, Great People, it breaks my heart.
Report Post »redneck
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:24pmHow did the Buddah rubbin slant eyed respond to the flooding of a Chocolate City of 2005?
tarbush
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 6:06pm@redneck
The japanese people sent aid to the big easy. A lot of aid.
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 6:10pmPray for Japan my friends, they are not out of the woods by a longshot!
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 6:53pmIt was good to see the person recording seemed more interested in getting down helping the people than recording.
There was another Earthquake in Japan overnight. The Japanese people just can’t seem to catch a break lately.
Report Post »kmichaels
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 7:01pmOily_bob is an arse on every subject, apparently.
Report Post »FlatFoot
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 9:22pm@redneck
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 4:24pm
“How did the Buddah rubbin slant eyed respond to the flooding of a Chocolate City of 2005?”
You see, when a Liberal Troll (or, a Liberal Troglodyte Homunculus… take your pick) comes on these boards and is so over the top and tries that hard to make a Conservative website look bad, well, you’re just shooting yourself in the foot. No one‘s going to take you seriously and you’ve outed yourself.
You should stick to crying and blubbering on DailyKos or Wonkette where you’re among your own kind and people will actually take you seriously.
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 11:05pmSad thing is if this were Anderson Cooper (or any other American “journalists”) they would have filmed a perfect shot making ZERO attempt to help the fleeing victims. To them its more like, “why help when I can get a huge ratings shot!”
Report Post »No1YaKnow
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 2:28amThe screams are going to stick with me for a long time. I feel so bad for these people.
Report Post »Cerealface
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:44amThis is not a hand of god moment. It’s a Tsunami
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