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A Flood Of Cars…
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Edward Niedermeyer
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Published: March 11th, 2011
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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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Published March 11th, 2011 10:07 AM
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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....
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.
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.