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wow, unbelievable
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
Y'know, my imagination of a tsunami really, really dwarfs reality. I don't doubt that they are horrible and destructive, but everytime I see a picture or a video, I'm always much less stunned than when I was told about the tsunami and imagined it.
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ElPhantasmo wrote:
See, that's the difference between these people and myself. My ass would have been running instead of snapping photos.
I'd like to think I would've run as well. But prior to this tsunami, I don't think most people had a very good grasp of just how destructive they are. I know I had no idea.
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If you dont live near a beach, or had never been to one, how would you recognize the danger? I would have a good idea because I know how the sea normally looks and acts, but some tourist who's never been around it might think it to be some normal occurance (that is, until it hits land).
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
energystar wrote:
ElPhantasmo wrote:
See, that's the difference between these people and myself. My ass would have been running instead of snapping photos.
I'd like to think I would've run as well. But prior to this tsunami, I don't think most people had a very good grasp of just how destructive they are. I know I had no idea.
I think this is my problem. I look at those pictures, and I think I would have said, "Woah! Cool! Big wave!" I never would have thought it was a tsunami, b/c I've been watching Deep Impact and The Day After Tommorrow, so I know that tsunamis take out skyscrapers and shit. I would never imagine that the wave in those pictures could wipe out whole towns.
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just_b wrote:
energystar wrote:
ElPhantasmo wrote:
See, that's the difference between these people and myself. My ass would have been running instead of snapping photos.
I'd like to think I would've run as well. But prior to this tsunami, I don't think most people had a very good grasp of just how destructive they are. I know I had no idea.
I think this is my problem. I look at those pictures, and I think I would have said, "Woah! Cool! Big wave!" I never would have thought it was a tsunami, b/c I've been watching Deep Impact and The Day After Tommorrow, so I know that tsunamis take out skyscrapers and shit. I would never imagine that the wave in those pictures could wipe out whole towns.
Exactly...tsunami's in movies are 100 feet tall and all that jazz. But in reality a tsunami is nowhere near that tall. It's not so much the height of the wave that causes the damage, but the amount of water that just keeps coming ashore.
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Buggy wrote:
If you dont live near a beach, or had never been to one, how would you recognize the danger? I would have a good idea because I know how the sea normally looks and acts, but some tourist who's never been around it might think it to be some normal occurance (that is, until it hits land).
Totally. But these folks were frequent visitors to the area. But yeah, I think it's the kind of thing that you wouldn't really know what was happening until you were up to your eyes in water.
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