Huge tsunami slams Japan after 8.9 quake, at least 5 dead

[Chief Walking Stick]

An entire town disappears in five minutes



[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOfy1CoxrMo&feature=topvideos[/media]

HOLY SHIT

 

[roshinaya]

Damn, that's just ridiculous. We're pretty much nature's *****.

 

[Sir Mike of Burbs]

Yet the people are so calm the whole time.

 

[MassHavoc]

Video got pulled. Not sure I wanted to see it now.

 

[IceHogsFan]

Video got pulled. Not sure I wanted to see it now.

Sad, the devastation was incredible. The amount of water is hard to put into words.



And just as bad, on the nuclear side of things they are saying that one of the nuclear reactors completely melted down even melting through the bottom of the containment vessel.

What all that means, I am not sure but it sounds horrendous.

 

[winos5]

Sad, the devastation was incredible. The amount of water is hard to put into words.



And just as bad, on the nuclear side of things they are saying that one of the nuclear reactors completely melted down even melting through the bottom of the containment vessel.

What all that means, I am not sure but it sounds horrendous.

Think Chernobyl on the seashore.

 

[MassHavoc]

Did you guys see these? Too big to post here but show the damage to some of the plant.



http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/daiichi-photos.htm

 

[IceHogsFan]

Did you guys see these? Too big to post here but show the damage to some of the plant.



http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/daiichi-photos.htm

Wow



I could only imagine when this is all said and done (which could be decades) that we are going to look back and see that this nuclear disaster was far worse then Chernobyl. The ocean contaimination is really concerning.

 

[roshinaya]

Currently the Fukushima incident is slightly worse than Three Mile Island, but far from being anything like Chernobyl. As far as I understand the radiation found in the seawater is the isotope I-131, which has a half-life of 8 days so it should be gone within a month or two and the sea will of course dilute it further.

 

[MassHavoc]

Japan is asking Russia for help. They want to use their special boats they use to decommission subs I guess. Outfitted with radiation equipment that could be helpful in the cleanup.

 

[fanof19]

Today they are reporting that the radiation levels in the Ocean are higher than they thought. Not a surprise.

 

[phranchk]

The Boston Globe has one of the best picture blogs in the business.

Pics in Japan 3 months later.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/06/japan_three_months_after_the_q.html

 

[MassHavoc]

Don't mean to veer here but did anyone see that another one hit Christ Church this week... **** man... Mother nature hates us.

 

[LordKOTL]

Don't mean to veer here but did anyone see that another one hit Christ Church this week... **** man... Mother nature hates us.

Are you surprised?

 

[IceHogsFan]

Almost a year later



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS-sWdAQsYg

 

[jakobeast]

That was nice.

 

[MassHavoc]

Shit, don't anyone take this the wrong way but, thank god, I thought this was a new thread.