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I was just talking to someone who found an old dining-room table wrapped in plastic buried on their property. Underneath it were several tractor tires stacked one on top of the other. Cheap and stupid way to cap a retired septic tank.
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AlbieQuirky posted:I was just talking to someone who found an old dining-room table wrapped in plastic buried on their property. Underneath it were several tractor tires stacked one on top of the other. Cheap and stupid way to cap a retired septic tank. That's just the most stupid thing. People drown in old septic tanks occasionally because of retarded ideas like that. Bad mine capping sucks too..
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Aug 6, 2016 12:12
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:That's just the most stupid thing. People drown in old septic tanks occasionally because of retarded ideas like that. Bad mine capping sucks too.. On the other hand, free dining table!
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Aug 6, 2016 21:25
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:On the other hand, free dining table! Well, if your cooking is poo poo.
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Aug 6, 2016 22:18
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Lime Tonics posted:This has been one of my fears. I have seen sinkholes form when I lived in florida, but what happens if your house is on one? Oh, and you don't know there is a mine shaft that goes "about 60 meters (196 ft) deep, but now they're expecting it to be 100 meters (328 ft) deep. "
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Aug 7, 2016 01:19
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:That's just the most stupid thing. People drown in old septic tanks occasionally because of retarded ideas like that. Bad mine capping sucks too.. I like that kind of stuff.
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Aug 7, 2016 04:26
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Have a collection of videos of the Tohoku tsunami in 2011. It's 36 minutes long and my jaw was dropped the entire time. There are plenty of recordings where large (very large!) waves are visible. But there are just as many where the ocean looks dead-calm and then the sea level just rises until it's 30-128(!) ft above the previous level. Everything floats. After a couple hundred yards inland, the waters are solid with debris. The recorded sounds are pretty terrifying as well. Obviously  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2ZOmMH4WHA
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Aug 9, 2016 06:14
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TotalLossBrain posted:Have a collection of videos of the Tohoku tsunami in 2011. It's 36 minutes long and my jaw was dropped the entire time. 6:08 That poor soul running from the waves.... Oh no 10:55 there's someone running on that building, and it gets completely destroyed when the second wave hits.  jesus christ the old folks at 22:00 God there's so many random people just stuck; you can barely see them. What horror. Wasabi the J has a new favorite as of 10:46 on Aug 9, 2016 |
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Aug 9, 2016 10:29
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"About 75% of the Earth is covered in water" has a whole entirely new meaning after seeing that. We say that and teach it in school from such a young age that you sorta think it's a special dividing up of the planet. These places here the continents are where land is and these other ones there the oceans are where the water is, nice and separated. gently caress no. Not a goddamn thing people had put on the "ground" in those videos mattered. Houses, cars, cranes, giant concrete things. Within a few minutes all of that was part of the ocean. It had me realizing that although that was an awful thing for people involved and Japan was able to clean/rebuild after it was over, when the Earth was younger things could happen on the scale where the water suddenly comes and there's no more Japan, period. It just kinda blew my mind for a while, the fact that the shapes on the planet that we know as permanent are anything but, and only "shapes" at all because the water already took over the other parts that were not high enough. I don't think anything the waves hit lasted any longer than anything else. Sheds crushed/torn the same as big buildings, whether a car or a giant boat, it's going where the water is, usually straight through solid things. Anytime the water got to a "barrier" whether it was made for stopping the ocean or just the way the next highest area of a town was beyond a long building or whatever, it just fills up the entire width of whatever it is and all at once comes over, under, through it. Those scenes were the ones that got to me. People near the camera always reacted to that happening too, there'd be yelling then it comes to something that you can tell they are all just sure is that last thing it is going to reach yet it keeps coming. First 18:44-19:20 then at 23:30 on through 25:00 it shows it back to back, also notice the Air Raid siren sounding like it too is failing because it's being submerged or something starting in the scene at 25:00. Thanks for posting that, where ever you found it, very well done syncing and information additions. Going to be enjoying not being near the coast all day today.
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Aug 9, 2016 12:16
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The more it hits the worse it gets; I watched a documentary on them once that talked about how everything that the wave picks up will keep going with the wave further inland, which sounds like a duh statement until you realize that all of that extra material has basically made the tsunami into a rushing wall of concrete.
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Aug 9, 2016 15:27
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Seeing flaming buildings floating down what used to be a city street would be terrifying. Really fits the unnerving title.
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Aug 9, 2016 15:47
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Wasabi the J posted:6:08 That poor soul running from the waves.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRJdPkdb4v4 I was living a few hundred miles south of the tsunami zone when that happened, got to watch some of that footage live. At one point they started forecasting a 10m wave was coming our way, although that was much higher than the estimate for the areas around us. Our apartment was maybe 50m from the coast and my wife had a viral infection, was running a high fever, and couldn't get out bed, so we didn't have much choice except to wait and hope the forecast was an error (it was, the wave didn't even make it over the seawall). Fun times!
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Aug 9, 2016 16:18
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If anyone wants to read a disturbing book that will haunt them forever on the subject of tsunamis, I highly recommend Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala. It's about the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The author was staying at a hotel on the beach in Sri Lanka with her husband, parents, two sons, and best friend and they all died except for her. It'll really make you want to kill yourself.
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Aug 9, 2016 17:03
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TotalLossBrain posted:Have a collection of videos of the Tohoku tsunami in 2011. It's 36 minutes long and my jaw was dropped the entire time. If nothing else, just watch the segment of footage that starts at 14:40 and goes for a couple of minutes. It really gives a sense of scale
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Aug 9, 2016 17:12
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 holy poo poo. gently caress water.
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Aug 9, 2016 18:50
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Solice Kirsk posted:Seeing flaming buildings floating down what used to be a city street would be terrifying. Really fits the unnerving title. I was getting ready to go to Afghanistan when the news broke. Being young and bombastic twenty something's we cracked wise about Godzilla and Pearl Harbor right up to the instant we saw that image linger on the news, and the joking stopped as we realized the scale of what we just witnessed.
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Aug 9, 2016 18:56
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This is why if you live by the coast you learn to respect the ocean. It gives but it sure as gently caress can take away. Also this is why global warming is a big deal. Whenever someone says the ocean is rising, don't think of a tide lapping up a couple inches further on a nice beach somewhere, think of more of this poo poo.
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Aug 9, 2016 19:30
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That just means more ocean front property! Kick back and relax on the beautiful beaches of Atlanta.
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ranbo das posted:This is why if you live by the coast you learn to respect the ocean. It gives but it sure as gently caress can take away. Also this is why global warming is a big deal. Whenever someone says the ocean is rising, don't think of a tide lapping up a couple inches further on a nice beach somewhere, think of more of this poo poo.
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At 28 minutes there's people loitering right next to the loving river bank. What the christ guys? And two minutes later the entire area is swamped with water and debris. Nope, gently caress it. I live on the coast and will be checking where to evacuate to when tsunamis come to my town. I must say, a lot of those buildings are/were pretty well built if they stayed intact while being shoved around by the water. I typed this before the video say fires burned down a lot of them, woops.
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Aug 9, 2016 21:15
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Video of the 2004 "big one" here (warning, graphic content): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjtKRRPhWPA The scale of this thing is absolutely unbelievable. The waves just keep coming and coming, and you can tell people think the water is going to recede, and then more of it pours in.
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Aug 9, 2016 21:27
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Somewhat but not entirely related is the megatsunami; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uCZjqoRLjc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN6EgMMrhdI The caption of the picture on wiki for the Vajont Dam is also lovely;  quote:The Vajont Dam as seen from the village of Longarone in 2005, showing approximately the top 60–70 metres of concrete. The wall of water that overtopped the dam by 250 metres (820 ft)[1] and destroyed this village and all nearby villages on 9 October 1963 would have obscured virtually all of the blue sky in this photo.[2] LostCosmonaut has a new favorite as of 00:44 on Aug 10, 2016 |
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Wedemeyer posted:At 28 minutes there's people loitering right next to the loving river bank. What the christ guys? And two minutes later the entire area is swamped with water and debris. Nope, gently caress it. I live on the coast and will be checking where to evacuate to when tsunamis come to my town. I feel like I heard about something related to this, a Tsunamis somewhere that had tourists going to the beach to watch all the water drain away just before the wave whilst all the locals that recognised what was coming started running. It might be an urban legend though.
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Aug 10, 2016 01:55
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water is a scary thing (i think this was originally linked in here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLzgzvVxUV4
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ro5s posted:I feel like I heard about something related to this, a Tsunamis somewhere that had tourists going to the beach to watch all the water drain away just before the wave whilst all the locals that recognised what was coming started running. It might be an urban legend though. Something kind of similar happened during the Boxing Day Tsunami. The ocean receded by around 2.5kms in some areas if I recall correctly, and people rushed in to pick up the fish that were just lying there, and then the water came back...
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Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_Smith quote:Tilly Smith (born 1994) is an English woman who, aged 10, was credited with saving nearly a hundred foreign tourists at Maikhao Beach in Thailand by warning beachgoers minutes before the arrival of the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. quote:Smith learned about tsunamis in a geography lesson two weeks before the tsunami from her teacher Andrew Kearney at Danes Hill School in Oxshott, Surrey. She recognised the warning signs of receding water from the shoreline and frothing bubbles on the surface of the sea and alerted her parents, who warned others on the beach and the staff at the hotel Phuket where they were staying. The beach was evacuated before the tsunami reached shore, and was one of the few beaches on the island with no reported casualties. She got an asteroid named after her for her trouble
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Earlier this year i got curious about how the recovery from the Tohoku quake was going five years after and found a pretty good article in the Japan Times. http://features.japantimes.co.jp/march-11-recovery/ Things aren't all that great still. quote:Even those who were fortunate enough to fully renovate or build a new house in their hometowns are facing disappearing communities as the catastrophe led many survivors to move away.
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ro5s posted:I feel like I heard about something related to this, a Tsunamis somewhere that had tourists going to the beach to watch all the water drain away just before the wave whilst all the locals that recognised what was coming started running. It might be an urban legend though. I've seen tourist videos from the Boxing Day tsunami where this is very apparent. Some Germans marveling at the receding seas, wondering what is going on and how weird it is. They notice the native Thais sprinting from the beach, however. Then one of them sees the huge first wave breaking about 2-4 miles offshore and wonders just what the hell it is. He sees a loving trawler get destroyed and his wife (?) asks him if it could be related to the earthquake at all. Him: No, don't worry. I am pretty sure they lived.
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That's really cool. The naming the asteroid after her, not the tsunami.
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TotalLossBrain posted:I've seen tourist videos from the Boxing Day tsunami where this is very apparent. Some Germans marveling at the receding seas, wondering what is going on and how weird it is. They notice the native Thais sprinting from the beach, however. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhjhTOkWeX0
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pookel posted:Video of the 2004 "big one" here (warning, graphic content): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjtKRRPhWPA
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GWBBQ posted:230,000 people confirmed dead, 125,000 injured, and 45,000 missing. In reality, that means nearly 275,000 dead, but this was so big that 45,000 people were swept out to sea and most of them will never be found.
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TotalLossBrain posted:I've seen tourist videos from the Boxing Day tsunami where this is very apparent. Some Germans marveling at the receding seas, wondering what is going on and how weird it is. They notice the native Thais sprinting from the beach, however. Yeah, they're in the video pookel posted, about half way through. They're standing on the beach looking at the drained beach and the huge wave in the distance. The guy is just standing on the beach filming saying how strange it is. The video also has some Thai's (hotel employees?) filming, and them yelling "run", "tsunami". As soon as the tourist heard that and also saw the trawler get capsized (some military boat he said), he started running with his family. E: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjtKRRPhWPA&t=1676s Fo3 has a new favorite as of 07:10 on Aug 10, 2016 |
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This is pretty eerie. Tohoku tsunami arrives in Emeryville, California, right across the bay from San Francisco. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdMDCLwblkY Motherfucker traveled a ways.
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spite house posted:This is pretty eerie. Tohoku tsunami arrives in Emeryville, California, right across the bay from San Francisco. That's the slowest wave I've ever seen.
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LostCosmonaut posted:The caption of the picture on wiki for the Vajont Dam is also lovely; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hf_XkgE1d0&t=90s (I happened to watch this in the theater without seeing the preview, so this totally stunned me. Can't imagine how much more so if it were real ...)
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pookel posted:This was what I thought of: The music in that scene is amazing too. I've seen the movie 3 or 4 times and I always look forward to that scene.
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Basebf555 posted:The music in that scene is amazing too. I've seen the movie 3 or 4 times and I always look forward to that scene.
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Fo3 posted:Yeah, they're in the video pookel posted, about half way through.
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Maybe he came out ok. You'd think the very beginning of a tsunami is where you'd wanna be if you got caught up in it.
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