Mar 142011
Not where I would’ve chosen to stand:
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Great Googaly Moogaly! In the words of Url, “It just keeps comin’ and comin’.”
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Look at the one minute, sixteen second mark.
That’s a fishing boat coming down the street.
Later, at the three minute, twenty-two second mark, you can see either it or another boat float by after capsizing.
It shows up again at four minutes.
If only it had caught that damned Namazu Catfish, none of this would have happened:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/g/j/gjs4/Shaking_Up_Japan.pdf
That fish and fission just don’t mix.
I’ve seen several complete houses floating by, pretty impressive construction. Maybe when the wave receeds it will drag the house back to the exact spot where it was.
Well, at least some cars. If Ted Kennedy’s car had floated in that fateful incident, then he would have been president! One Kennedy as president was bad enough.
I got this link from Gizmodo; it takes you to a google street view of the site where the video was taken. If you weren’t already freaked, look at how high up those stairs go, and how the red roofed house is half way up the hill.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=kesennuma&aq=&sll=38.277809,141.015701&sspn=0.102146,0.191574&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Kesennuma,+Miyagi+Prefecture,+Japan&ll=38.899016,141.578236&spn=0.005928,0.025685&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=38.899021,141.578228&panoid=ZU–NQExOOwqoysPg7ax4Q&cbp=11,25.32,,0,7.56
Jordan wrote:
“Well, at least some cars. If Ted Kennedy’s car had floated in that fateful incident, then he would have been president! One Kennedy as president was bad enough.”
The infamous, but very funny, National Lampoon Volkswagen ad:
http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/files/2009/08/tedvwsmall.jpg