Close-up view of tsunami rolling through Sendai airport
Just: Wow
The only thing that didn’t wash up was these guys:
30 pictures of boats and ships swept ashore by the tsunami
Click the image to go to the gallery.
Watch car being swept up in tsunami wave from driver’s POV
Could have been a lot worse for this person but it is still quite something to see.
EDIT: I’m having difficulty embedding the video so follow the FNN link below. (Found a YouTube alternate but the quality was wretched)
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Aftermath
As awing as the overhead videos of the wake of the tsunami are, seeing people dealing with it from ground level really drives home the impact. There are far worse ways to pass a few minutes today than to browse through this series of photographs, and the video below, depicting the aftermath of the recent earthquake in Japan.