Tsunami Video - In car camera
Discussion
GravelBen said:
Quite different to what I expected - thought it would have been faster/more forceful but not last as long. Wouldn't be much fun either way!
That's what I thought. Still, presumably he survived if the footage made it?I was trying to imagine where the best place to be is when this happens and I'm fairly sure that on top of a car as per the video or getting out (and running back to close your car door) then escaping on foot were not ideal.
This has been posted before -
The guy gets out of his car right at the beginning - he wasn't in the car while it was bobbing about, his camera had been left running.
During the clean-up operation he will have been contacted via his car details, and they recovered the camera and the card, to find this footage (I imagine this is what the Japanese subtitles are explaining). Right at the end when it goes dark is when the car would have filled up and been submerged - he'd be dead if he'd stayed in it.
If you watch it a couple of times you take more in, its an astonishingly powerful bit of footage.
Watch the bit at the start carefully as the ground quakes - look at the buildings, the cars. The guy on the pavement can barely stand up. I cant imagine what it must be like for the whole earth beneath you to shake that violently.
The guy gets out of his car right at the beginning - he wasn't in the car while it was bobbing about, his camera had been left running.
During the clean-up operation he will have been contacted via his car details, and they recovered the camera and the card, to find this footage (I imagine this is what the Japanese subtitles are explaining). Right at the end when it goes dark is when the car would have filled up and been submerged - he'd be dead if he'd stayed in it.
If you watch it a couple of times you take more in, its an astonishingly powerful bit of footage.
Watch the bit at the start carefully as the ground quakes - look at the buildings, the cars. The guy on the pavement can barely stand up. I cant imagine what it must be like for the whole earth beneath you to shake that violently.
Thats a genuine brown trouser situation. Mother nature has certainly got some power.
I think i would definitely have gone for the tanker with a view of riding it as far as possible and then getting onto some sort of structure that survived the initial impact. If it was full of fuel i am guessing although risky would have stayed boutant unless it was punctured?
I think i would definitely have gone for the tanker with a view of riding it as far as possible and then getting onto some sort of structure that survived the initial impact. If it was full of fuel i am guessing although risky would have stayed boutant unless it was punctured?
snotrag said:
This has been posted before -
The guy gets out of his car right at the beginning - he wasn't in the car while it was bobbing about, his camera had been left running.
During the clean-up operation he will have been contacted via his car details, and they recovered the camera and the card, to find this footage (I imagine this is what the Japanese subtitles are explaining). Right at the end when it goes dark is when the car would have filled up and been submerged - he'd be dead if he'd stayed in it.
If you watch it a couple of times you take more in, its an astonishingly powerful bit of footage.
Watch the bit at the start carefully as the ground quakes - look at the buildings, the cars. The guy on the pavement can barely stand up. I cant imagine what it must be like for the whole earth beneath you to shake that violently.
The closest I got to it was the Market Rasen quake, being about 15-20 miles from the epicentre at the time and it scared the sThe guy gets out of his car right at the beginning - he wasn't in the car while it was bobbing about, his camera had been left running.
During the clean-up operation he will have been contacted via his car details, and they recovered the camera and the card, to find this footage (I imagine this is what the Japanese subtitles are explaining). Right at the end when it goes dark is when the car would have filled up and been submerged - he'd be dead if he'd stayed in it.
If you watch it a couple of times you take more in, its an astonishingly powerful bit of footage.
Watch the bit at the start carefully as the ground quakes - look at the buildings, the cars. The guy on the pavement can barely stand up. I cant imagine what it must be like for the whole earth beneath you to shake that violently.
t out of me, suddenly realising you're nowhere near as powerful and important as you think you are. Watched it 4 times now - seeing how much movement there was in the carpark when the quake hits really got meGassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff