I am on the Georgia Florida line and have seen pine tree needles stuck into the sides of pine trees from strong wind. On another occasion my brother was flooded out of his house and had to move. I myself experienced the eye of Hurricane Andrew in 1992. It's a savagely beautiful sight to witness.
Just curious, what makes flooding the most deadly type of catastrophe I mean personally, I would think a tornado or a fire would come extremely close to that or a tornado or an earthquake I mean what’s so spectacular about a flood
If you haven't seen it, watch the documentary for the boxing day tsunami. It's a tear jerker but shows multiple perspectives of people who endured the tsunami around the Indian Ocean.
Most of those goverments do not even think about it because it's not for free... and if those goverments are corrupt why bother paying all that money if I can buy some planes and helikopters oh and boats, not forgetting boats oh and a speedboat and ehm... guns yes loads of guns for the police and army... Crap, I'm almost forgetting my 5 palaces... Need 1 for every season and a spare one for my mistresses... oh and a management team if one of my wifes shows up there... A tsunami warning system?? Why, that hardly ever happens. No, do not need that.
The 3/11 Japanese Earthquake had recorded wave heights of +40m (Insanely Scary), but the Lituya Bay Mega tsunami in Alaska reached a wave height of over 1500ft! A man and his son actually boat ride the wave and survived!
Even off the United States Southern coast, we need to rebuild the barrier islands and the mangroves. The degradation of those barrier islands may have had a major impact on the devastation during Katrina.
I was on a cruise along Mexico and Cali that docked in Long Beach on that day. My uncle noticed how calm the entire ocean and port went for just a few moments when we were getting off the ship. The next day we heard why 😢😮 luckily it wouldn’t have hurt the boat any, but crazy to see the ocean change like that. I’ll never forget that he spotted that and made me look
I was 12 when Sandy hit. I live in central Pennsylvania, and even we were greatly affected. There is a creek going through my town, and the town itself is essentially built at the bottom of a valley. For those of you not from PA, a creek is a small river lol. The high school is built right next to the creek on one side, and the middle school on the other side. Both of them had to be evacuated due to sudden flash flooding, with kids fleeing the building as water was rushing toward them like a tsunami. The largest elementary schools were in town and both also experienced some flooding. The water rose so high that it flooded part of the high school. Dozens of people died throughout the county, and my town in particular was hit the hardest. We had military trucks rolling through our small semi rural town as the National Guard was sending aid to help evacuate and hand out food and water. The county was also essentially cut in half by this flooding, and people were stuck for days staying at friends' houses or sleeping in schools and churches. Some areas were completely cut off and the military had to deliver food by boat. All of this may not sound all that surprising during a hurricane, but bear in mind this was central Pennsylvania, we are almost 200 miles from the nearest coastline. We were not at all prepared for anything like that.
I'm a Floridian, so I can relate. But it had to be horrible because as you said, your town wasn't used to it like we are. I hope you and your family have long since recovered.
My hometown was flooded indirectly by heavy rainfall from the northern part of the state at least 200 miles away. A day later, the water worked it’s way down and seemingly converged in our town all at once and by complete surprise to the citizens. There were actually fish swimming in the halls of our High School. Like your town, people were stuck on islands between the local creeks and rivers and spent the night with friends, etc.
I believe that you are missing the point regarding the failures associated with this tsunami. In United States we have done a significant amount of analysis regarding all types of hazards and nuclear facilities. We have developed a complex and highly accurate statistical model of all potential hazards for every nuclear site. The problem is that the Japanese chose to be rather arrogant regarding potential hazards. United States officials with the NRC warned Japanese officials back in the 1980s that they had not properly designed the reactor systems against all potential hazards. Using statistical mottles, it was obvious that there emergency systems were totally insufficient and their designs inadequate. For example emergency emergency electrical systems are NEVER allowed to be located below ground level. In fact re require the feedbackup system be located far above a potential flood from a 1000 your rains and 1000 year snow fields... Whichever is greater. It is absolutely absurd to locate an emergency backed up below ground level anywhere near the coastline... This negligence is far greater when one considers the high probability of a tsunami. We were totally confused as to why the Japanese chose to place their emergency backup systems below ground. This is just pure negligence. 2nd is the issue of a pressure relief system for the reactor. Since the 1960s we in the United States recognize the potential for water being disassociated at high temperatures because of the Zircoloy cladding. This would cause the pressure to increase in the reactor vessel. In response, all US PWR reactors have pressure relief systems as was demonstrated at 3 mile island. Once again it is totally absurd for the Japanese to not have a pressure relief system in the event of a LOCA (Loss of current accident)...which is exactly what occurred. If the Japanese had accepted our input on either one of these issues, the crisis could have been avoided. Worse is the fact that they are overstating the radiologic release to gain International funding. The actual greatest radiologic release from the tsunami resulted from the extensive fires and not the reactor. (Thorium released from burning organic matter.) This crisis did not occur because nuclear reactors are inherently unsafe; quite the contrary. Most of the people died because once again the Japanese officials failed or refused to acknowledge the potential height of a tsunami. A rapid statistical analysis would indicate that officials needed to design for a height of at least 15 and 20 m. [I believe that the standard of 10-E6 (The US standard for nuclear facilities.) would require a height of 20 m. Non-nuclear facilities might have a lower standard.] Most of the Japanese systems were designed for a height of only 7 to 10 m. [The nuclear reactor design obviously did not even consider a tsunami as a credible hazard which is patently absurd.] Once again this is pure negligence, arrogance, and/or incompetence. Yes, I am a retired research engineer; have engineering degrees, training, and certifications in mechanical, electrical, civil, and nuclear engineering; and have NRC NQA-1 certifications in all of the technical areas associated with this case.
On the opposite side of Earth and 35 years after the fact, one of the casualties was a favorite student of mine. He was a Graduate Student from Banda Aceh, Indonesia and my job was to shepherd him though his Master's Degree. Over the next 16 years he wrote to me of his profession progress as a practicing Christian in a Muslim country. Of his father's death while he was completing his Ph.D. After the Christmas Tsunami I never herard another thing. It seems unlikely that something so horrific half a world away continues to give me personal grief over one life.
Yeah something like going to a close brothers funeral. They care at the moment but next day back to doing. If y'all no what I mean! Heartless people in the world!
I think humans forget that others are in fact human too..they forget..we all walked out of Africa in waves to settle an entire globe..we are one we are all
Truth be told that sentiment of us all being human is not very prevalent during or immediately following a disaster. This is one of the times when you can see just how inhumane people really are.
Yeah... if you ever see the tide go out that much and that quickly.... Run. Don't look back, just run. Run for the highest point. Why were people just standing there and watching the damn thing coming in like a bunch of logs standing there?!? RUN!!!!
It amazes me how many people don't know the warning signs but even if you don't know, you'd hope their lizard brain and flight instincts would kick in.
Instinctive fear response: flight, fight, freeze, fawn. People can rationally understand something normally, and when faced it they can become so overwhelmed with fear that they just can’t comprehend something is happening. Perhaps they thought “oh god, no chance I’m not dead” and resign to the fate. Or the fear was so great they thought “this isn’t real, it’s just a dream” or start begging whatever god they believed in to bargain and beg. You’d think you’d realize and react like you said, but you don’t know what will happen until you face that EXACT fear at that EXACT moment.
@@rachelann9362 This. It's amazing how many people freeze up when scared. I'm one of those people unless I've practiced exactly what to do in specific emergencies. Thankfully, I'm also somewhat paranoid, so I *have* practiced what to do in a number of situations of varying likelihood.
My heart feels like it's breaking. I can't even imagine the pain of losing a Child or Baby. My Husband was a Police Officer and he was murdered six years ago, it almost killed me, I couldn't eat, shower nothing.... A Child, the loss of one would kill me. May God look over all and help them🕊️
I am so sorry for your loss and for your children’s loss I was an emergency manager in our police department and people just don’t know what kind of question marks they’re facing every day and it’s really hard for the family. I appreciate your family service.
I'm sorry for the loss of your hero, JoAnne! I have buried two husbands, now, lost three babies who were born sleeping and both my adopted children left this earth far too early. My daughter was taken at 38, as a result of her drug addiction, and my son, at 28, shot by a madman who desired to watch someone die. That nearly killed me, as he was my baby boy! Through it all, I have found that God is ever merciful and loving, healing the broken hearted and never leaving us alone in our pain. It is He who keeps me strong, assuring me that they are all waiting for me and that I will be with them again! What a glorious reunion that will be!
Did I miss the bit about Pakistan where they explained the effect of all those nuclear power stations in the are which are warming the climate? I'm glad they did mention the criminal deforestation which is a huge cause of catastrophic flooding in the region. It seems this flooding has far more to do with that than climate change. The area is so fertile. It could be very prosperous. The Dutch manage prosperity on a tiny swamp purely with persistence in the face of adversity and cleverness regarding land management. Removing barriers to flooding, like trees, simply should not be allowed. Same story in much of India and also Nepal (unless they've stopped) and I've heard the chainsaws have been busy in Tibet the last 4 decades too - blasting the mountains with dynamite in the Himalayas for slate probably doesn't help much either. Then everyone is surprised when there's an Earth Quake! I'm pretty sure building huge dams and putting massive bodies of water where they never used to be might have had some connection to the tsunami. Just my wondering, I don't have evidence. And it's always the most vulnerable poor people who suffer from this awful management issue. Why are these events not planned for properly? There is no need for any shortage anywhere, there is a need for good management.
I’ve been in shallow flood water.. it is nothing to mess with. Man it’s strength is impossible to comprehend. Even as a young strong man I was hopeless. Don’t go near this pretty looking small flow
There’s a tidal inlet near Kennedy Airport in NYC that is notorious for its seeming harmlessness killing some dozen people every year. The water is shallow, about eight inches in depth, with a smooth appearance. It looks to be still when, in reality, it possesses a strong undertow that knocks over people and sweeps them out to sea beneath the depths. There’s a no swimming or wading sign, but people ignore it.
I was helping evacuate flooded areas in the early 90s with my old military deuce and a halfs we had the tops off because some places we had to drive standing up all you could see was our chest up with the exhaust stack and snorkel sticking out of the water knowing if we hit a sinkhole we'd be swimming for our lives the pole in the back we were towing flat bottom aluminum boats by was under water in the first places we were getting people from their roofs at after the news caught us doing it the cops shut that down really quick so we switched to 5 ft of water or less (since we were on 54 inch tires) after evacuations were done we switched to sandbag delivery to areas that hadn't yet flooded but were going to within days
True that, bro. It only takes a few inches of water to move a car. And it's impossible to tell if the road has washed away. I lived through back-to-back floods that came 2 months apart. We had a farm bordering the Willamette River. It was pretty impressive to watch. Being on the only high ground, we stayed there for the first one; it was Christmas break too. But we rented a place in town for the 2nd one so mom wouldn't miss work. Those floodwaters swallowed a tractor that didn't get moved to the highest ground, and left big canyons that had to be filled in. Still, it didn't touch the house, shed, or other equipment. We were blessed.
The devastation that caused was mind boggling. Ppl was there enjoying sun and relaxing during Christmas and their whole world got turned upside down, but the poor locals lost everything, so sad.
@@sharleneblock4888 Eh, the vacationers went home and back to their businesses which were safe and sound, the locals on the other hand, THEY were the 1's who lost everything, they lost friends, family, homes and businesses, and they had to be careful of the food and water they ate and drank due to the reactors leaking, big big difference
Watching this makes you realize how like ants we are when it comes to the forces of nature such a tsunami, I remember seeing this on tv and my heart broke for all who were left behind it shows you life can be swept away in a second /God bless all who died and those who did so much to help those who were injured / to bury/to nurse / to comfort/ etc as it says in scripture tomorrow is not promised to any off us /be thankful for your life it is a gift x
Yes compassion but throughout all of scripture God uses nature as judgement He promised not to completely flood the entire earth but to say He isn't aware of the #1 sin of a people UNBELIEF is not biblical Japan has consistently denied Christ for millenniums not centuries They worshipped the Emperor all the way to the end of World War 2 .Is every natural disaster a specific judgement probably not but many are The USA is getting slammed with natural disasters 63 million murdered in the womb Judgement is coming here hard Judgement is coming to our planet Covid for sure is a warm up to the MARK OF THE BEAST Bottom line Repent and yes Christians will die in the Judgement but death here is life in heaven Japan like many countries is a Christ denying country The USA was protected but not anymore Judgement is already here a Supreme Court nominee can't tell you what a women is THIS IS THE HIGHEST COURT ON PLANET EARTH
Your message is sensitive. I see some using scripture to condemn and blame, and it makes me sad. Scripture is best used as a source of hope and wisdom in trials, and as a celebration of gratitude when circumstances allow. You are a gift to the world,
@@tabaxikhajit4541 Jesus is coming not as meek and mild Jeremiah 1:5 I knew you before you were in the womb what does that insinuate?63 million babies Do you remember a thing called the flood ?God wiped out everyone except 8 people Have you turned on the news ? Wars and rumors of wars Increasing earthquakes floods hurricanes famine. Is God condemning the world ? John 3:18 is there GOOD NEWS YES JOHN 3:16-17 You never heard the expression IF GOD DOESNT JUDGE AMERICA HE WILL HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO SODOM AND GOMMORAH I weep over the lost we are talking my mother and 3 brothers and many friends DO YOU WEEP OVER THE LOST? The God of the Old Testament is the same God of the New there is NO FEAR OF GOD anymore look up scripture that talks about FEARING GOD The lost will be eternally tormented again we are talking my MOTHER! Do you share THE GOOD NEWS Read your bible from Genesis to Revelation this world ends on a horrific note When you weep and pray and share the Gospel and disciple new believers your opinion is not worth merit if you have a problem with what I'm saying bring it up with God not me if your best friend was about to get into a fiery crash what would you do ? Gently hold their hand and say oh by the way you will have 3rd degree burns all over your body next week? Nonchalantly? I WOULD SCREAM TURN FROM YOUR SINS AND HOLD ONTO JESUS LIKE ITS LIFE AND DEATH WHY? BECAUSE IT IS!
There was another documentary that stated both Kamaishi and Fukushima's levies were high enough but due to subsidence of three feet as a result of the quake, they were then rendered useless.
As a former writer, my experience has taught me not to personify a natural disaster. Humans are not “lost” they are killed. Violent natural disasters are not to be “dumped” to our brilliant earths people. The sickest language in this program should be put on trial: it is unacceptable, condescending and full of lies. The people who were interviewed were poor representatives of humans. I am shocked at the vile approach to this catastrophe and how the victims were spoken to. Shame on all who played a part in the coverage of this dangerous event! I hope you are all fired. Get qualified catastrophe management professionals to assist with professional help and language!
With Japan knowing just vulnerable they were to a tsunami - it's incredibly irresponsible that they would put both the emergency generators and the fuel for such on the ground instead of on top of the highest building. Had they simply done that there would never have been a Fukushima disaster.
Despite disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima, nuclear power is still the safest and most reliable form of energy production. Chernobyl was the result of Soviet corner cutting, poor management, and even poorer design. Fukushima was the result of inadequate planning for extreme worst case scenarios. As stated in this video, officials didn't consider the possibility of such a large tsunami because it was deemed extremely improbable to occur. Also, common sense should tell you that building a nuclear power plant on the one coastline in the world that gets hit with the most earthquakes and tsunamis is a very bad idea. Even when taking these events into account, nuclear power is _still_ safer and far more cost and material effective than other power production methods. Far more people die each year from fossil fuel collection, processing, and burning, than all total deaths from nuclear power incidents. Nuclear power plants are the solution to climate change that people ignore out of fear because they don't understand it.
Total deaths doesn't say much because fossil fuel is much more commonly used. If you look at how many people work in nuclear power and the *percentage* of those who die compared to the same categories in fossil fuel, then you'd have a compelling argument.
@@brigidtheirish Total deaths meaning all people. Not just workers. Fossil fuels are estimated to kill millions of people *every year.* Even with the most liberal of estimates, nuclear power has killed less than 30,000 people in it's entire existence. Even if you include the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan and not _just_ power plants, it's far less than just one million. Since 1945, nuclear energy and nuclear weapons have killed absolutely no more than a million people, the real number is likely far smaller. Every year, fossil fuels kill millions of people. The difference is staggering.
@@jeremy5602 You're missing my point. Fossil fuels have been used for much longer and are much more common. A clearly defined percentage would give a better picture of the risks involved because it'd be based on *proportions.*
@@brigidtheirish My guy. Less than a million people in about 80 years for nuclear. Greater than three million every. single. year. for fossil fuels. At the very least. A significant portion of annual deaths can be directly linked to fossil fuels. Every year. One million deaths due to nuclear power and nuclear weapons in an EXTREMELY HIGH estimate on my part. It's more likely under 400,000 deaths. Probably closer to 300,000 deaths. Again, that's in the entire time since nuclear fission was first achieved. Almost a century ago. Fossil fuels cause AT LEAST 3,000,000 DEATHS EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. Some estimates put it as high as 1 in every 5 deaths are caused by fossil fuels. What is so hard to grasp about this? Fossil fuels TEN TIMES more people every single year than the people who were killed directly or indirectly by the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. The use of fossil fuels is more than TEN TIMES deadlier than the atomic bombs used in WW2.
They restored the old version of water repellent (what was clearly not good enough) as seen in the video. They (local goverment) contacted the Dutch after this disaster but did not follow trough. Perhaps their solution was to expensive but from what I heard the Dutch got the impression that they would just do it them selfs. So they never even came back to The Netherlands...
Because they require large amounts of water to operate so they are often built next to water. There aren't any places on earth that don't have earthquakes so the problem wasn't where they built it, the problems arose from how it was built. Obviously they didn't adequately design safety systems to withstand the environmental conditions it was subjected to.
@@donaldbiden1920 exactly, if the wall was built that bit higher the situation wouldn’t of been that bad. But they didn’t expect the wave to be that big.
@@katj3443the earthquake facilitated a land mass drop that compromised the T-breaks for the wave even further and amounted to a wave size and strength they hadn't predicted. The vast majority of the cause for Fukushima was and continues to be human error and valuing money over people's lives. Look at where they had their emergency back ups, below the standing water line how the hell was that going to work when under water. Answer it wasn't.
The real question is why did they put the back up generators in the basement? Why not run a power line up the nearest hill and install generators there? I mean, it's not rocket science. Or maybe it is :(
@@carolwolf9614 what you propose is simple common sense and therefore not rocket science. The one caveat I could offer the designers and builders of Fukushima is that for ease of access in an emergency unlike what they actually faced. In the design phase the engineers and architects have to think about every plausibility and rate them on the likelihood of occurrence ratio, the higher the likelihood they implement counter measures to prevent catastrophic failure which would lead to a meltdown of the NFC's. Japan just failed to take into account its geological location and that of the Reactors as to their history of geological and oceanographic events from the ROF. A study was done on the impact on the impact that the event, short term release, long term release or radioactive contaminated water being dumped in the ocean and it wasn't a good prognosis. They made a total of ten KNOWN dumps in the area of 30,000 gallons of irradiated water into the pacific in the last 8 + years and it isn't being neutralized as first though. Which is why fisheries throughout the pacific are stringently monitored as there is a red zone extending from the plant some three hundred miles out into the pacific ocean. All which would have been prevented if they thought like you and many experts do.
While most of the information in this documentary is accurate, the information concerning the Fukushima reactor is not correct. In the mid to late 1980s, we notified the Japanese government that this reactor had numerous potential problems. I am a Real Nuclear Engineer ( 3 engineering degrees, and I have certifications in mechanical, electrical, and nuclear engineering. I was also certified to analyze abnormal conditions that may impact a reactor system. Specifically we noted 2 design flaws. The 1st was the fact that the emergency diesel generators were below grade. This is never allowed in the United States. It made the backup system susceptible to failure with flooding or a tsunami. The 2nd issue involved the pressure vessel. We know that if the backup cooling system fails there is a potential for oxidation of the Zircoloy (zuriconium cladding) surrounding the fuel. When this material oxidizes it releases hydrogen which increases the pressure. All US reactors have mechanisms to release this pressure. The reactors in Japan often do not have this capability which puts them at great risk for an explosion. It is important to note that it cannot result in an actual "meltdown" but the fuel can "partially melt" due to the decay heat. ( All of the reactors correctly "scrambled" and as such there was no longer any "fisson heat". However, a small percentage of heat caused by Radioactive decay did remain. This heat would drop off very quickly. (This is what occurred at the 3 mile island complex in Pennsylvania in 1979. There was no radioactive release of concern and there was no explosion of the reactor.) The problem in Japan was the fact that they had no ability to release the pressure. The explosion caused a release of the radioactive elements contained in the reactor. The largest amount of vision products is Molly 90 and cesium 137. A small amount of radioactive iodine was also released. Because reelective iodine can be absorbed by the body, There was a concern. However the concern was greatly overstated because most of The real activity died released by the reactor cannot be absorbed by the body. The danger was grossly overstated. The greatest radionuclide release was tridium ("heavy hydrogen") which decays with a low energy Beta Particle which is not dangerous to humans. This danger was greatly overstated.
After seeing the results of all this, I need to Reconnect, with God. And we all need to continue to look after our world. God bless all, who are directly and indirectly inpacked by all this. 🙏💙
Visited Sri Lanka back in 2001...the hotel complex is now gone...with many great Sri Lankan families 😢 We remember lots of tragedies, but not this one...the biggest of all...why?
The people in Sumatra had virtually no chance to avoid the Boxing Day tsunami. The quake lasted the better part of 10 minutes. The water arrived within 15 to 20 minutes. So the water hit shortly after people were just able to stand up. In the flat coastal plain around Aceh, there was no high ground to reach within 10 minutes anyway. The Indonesians were utterly at the mercy of the quake and the water. In Thailand, India, and Sri Lanka there wasn't strong ground shaking to alert people to anything. In some places the water did draw back ...and far too many people didn't know what that meant. Locals and foreigners alike. In other areas there was no water draw back. One minute everything seemed normal, the next the sea seemed to just lift up and a huge flood ran in for the next hour. There were no signs to fail to observe or understand.
Flashing lights can set off a seizure if the person or animal that suffers from epilepsy sees it. I have had epilepsy since I had a high fever at age 3. If you ever have a child that develops a high fever, and you have to put them into a bathtub filled with nothing but ice to cool them down, please, tell your child what you are doing. I didn't understand, when I was age 4, why Mom was making me stay in the bathtub, while Dad was pouring ice around me. They explained to me, when I was 8. I really hate the ice and being cold now.
Imagine living 5 miles from the ocean and all of a sudden instead of farmland you have ocean front property with boats and ships and debris from everything between you and the ocean in your fields after the water goes back to normal
@@ussstropicana that would be ok if the price of scrap ever got decent again right now I have close to 20 semi loads ready to haul (a solid 17 for sure) when the price goes back up and that's just iron I've stripped and separated the copper and aluminum out catalytic converters is all I've sold in a long time
@@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073 I've got nothing but time my farm and selling parts pays the bills and my share in my kids buissneses helps and I keep my OTR trucks moving I'm in 1 when it's slow around the farm and prices are low moving heavy equipment pays good and I can always find backhauls to get me close to home the joys of owning your own trucks I can reject anything I don't like the looks of and if I'm hauling it I get paid what I want or I move on
It also makes me realize how we must always take care of this beautiful planet the lord created and take better care of every animal insect tree every bit of it its simply cant get anymore beautiful in my eyes i thank god every night and always pray for those who suffer always give back or help others at least i try some are just to selfish and greedy even to give thanks thats pittyful
Companies will do any despicable thing to save $$$ & effort. Supposedly smart people aren't. Commenters will come here & blab about how dumping toxic crap is safe. Meanwhile leaking and dumping continues in many other places.
Reminds me of the comet strike passages In the Pournelle Niven novel 'Lucifers Hammer'. 100 meter Tsunami wave striking LA is the largest of these passages. It includes a small band of surfers who decide to die riding the ultimate wave.
10:59 this dude's worried about his bike..... dude if you're dead, swept away you wont need that bike... LET IT GO AND SAVE YOURSELF.... WTF some people just baffle me frfr.. it's like life or death and he says " but my bike"
Haven't seen much of this video, but if it was a local, that bike may have been the only way he could get to work, support his family, or use to make money to live. If it was a tourist, he's an idiot.
@@virginiahoffman2547 it's a Tsunami he will be dead if he keeps trying to save the bike and not himself..There will be no job because he will be dead..
I'm surprised the 1964 9.2 Magnitude Anchorage Alaska earthquake didn't even get a mention here. I guess the lack of photo's and video wasn't sensational enough to make the list.
58:40 & 59:20 Most people don't consider the size of the continental US. The larger the country is, the larger everything is that the country has too. Lake areas, forest areas, mountain areas, beach areas, and below sea level areas too ... all those areas can each be larger than some other entire countries around the world. More than a few of the 50 states are individually larger than some countries. The United States is pretty huge.
A friend lived in a ashram on the coast at Pondicherry. She said they were okay because the French when it was colonial. I asked how the villages were. She said they were gone. People, buildings, gone.
I always thought a sounomi was like a hundred foot wave.. 2 or 3 foot flow is all it takes.. a kadrillon gallons of water moving every second will take out an entire town
@@Holocaustica A tidal wave is moved by either gravity or wind. They are relatively small. A tsunami is created by pressure, like a mountainside falling into a big area of water, or a glacier calving, or a volcano erupting, or a big meteorite slamming into the ocean. I would play with a tidal wave, and run like hell away from the ocean if I heard that there was a tsunami coming towards me. Rogue waves can be created by big winds like hurricanes, or by undersea volcanoes or landslides. A tsunami involves the entire column of water. A tidal wave involves just the surface of the water.
@@riandraegon556 I don't know what came over me!!! I read it, and it was a "milk squirt out the nose" moment for me! And your So Right... It felt So Good To Laugh Out Loud for Real!!! Totally 💯 With You!!
I'm glad to hear people do recognize global warming to have influence in most of the rainwater and storm disasters. (My love goes out to all the victims in all these disasters) In a different video, about tornado's, the so called experts claimed that global warming had totaly no effect on the forming of more tornado's per year (deadly or not) while in the start of the video the same experts claimed they did not understand fully how tornado's are formed... A. We do not now exactly how they are formed. B. No, global warming has totaly no effect on the forming of more tornado's. Ok, then tell me, how do you know B. if you do not even know A. ??? 😅 😅 But I got no response... 😢
The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a megathrust fault running from northern California almost to Alaska, and if that thing goes it can produce a shaker even bigger than the one that hit the Indian Ocean in 2004. If and inevitably _when_ it happens, the west coasts of Canada and America are toast, because in no way are they prepared for a tsunami of that magnitude, and there are a lot of very large cities in the impact zone. The last time it went, the tsunami hit Japan even though the quake itself didn't. It was estimated to have been a magnitude 9.0 at least. In 2016 a storm hit my area and flooded half the city. Everyone was squawking about how to prevent it from happening again, but an engineer brought in to consult on flood mitigation told the council that there is nothing that can be done. Council still wants to destroy a popular and famous nature hiking trail to put in flood control berms even though they won't be of any help at all
The Cascadia Subduction Zone last "Unlocked" January 26, 1700. It sent a tsunami to Japan which they have records of. The Cascade Mountains Inland are related to the zone. The last mountain to "blow" up was Mount St Helens in 1980. I learned all this from Nick Zentner a Geology Professor at Central Washington University, in Ellensburg, WA USA. He is free for anyone to learn from on the internet! 👵🐈⬛🐈⬛, me and my kitties Teo and TwoTwo
Where was the United Nation in these small countries and cities where there were so much devastation? I know with Katrina, legalities and political powers ruled. The other parts of the world, I don’t know but it was heart breaking to see. I hope the dead are at peace and the living have over come and moved forward. From USA
The UN and just about every other such organization bases it's disaster response on what that specific area/nations global contributions are. When you see teams from other countries its because they have a mutual aid pact as part of their economic or political relationship with other countries. The UN & WHO as well as the IRC are largely ineffective. As are most national disaster response/mitigation agencies/departments. Then there are the politics to consider, by this I mean outside assistance was offered but refused by that nationals leadership. This happens a lot more frequently than most could know. Most recently Canada has done this with highly trained wildfire response crews from around the world over their vaccine status for covid. It's not that help isn't offered or available it's the governmental control of and implementing of aid at its discretion which often times sees those most in need being left to fend for themselves. This happens as much in the first world countries as it does in the third world countries, so that should tell you where the bastion of aid problems really comes from. I've been a specialist in the Critical Disaster/Mutual Aid Response occupation for the last 12 years and have seen more than I care to think about.
"If you, like me, thought that this combination of things would surely result in brilliant cinema-and definitely not an unredeemable disaster that isn’t worth watching-it brings me no pleasure to tell you that you’re wrong. And that’s what makes it so puzzling.".......anonamyous.
3 years before it in Japan they were drilling into a methane deposit off the same fault an destabilized the fault when drilled into the methane bed. And Japan will never admit 8t was a methane drill rig responsible for it
When He says obey me & His commandments, He do mean it , repercussions follow if we don't, aka natural disaster's!, earth quake's, hurricanes, blizzards, floods , exc & worse : (
Obey, obey not, the earthquakes, the tsunamis, the typhoons, the volcanos, the tornadoes will still come. Anyway, how could you pretend to know what ''He (or She)'' wants ? proud prophet or something ? Peace.
So if it's punishment for not obeying why in so many disasters do the heathens survive while churches children's hospitals and religious people get smashed up and killed
Open your mind for three seconds and fire up your last brain cell and think about this: Since god obviously knows people are going to act like people and do what they do since he CREATED THEM FROM NOTHING, the idea that he still threatens to murder his very own creation for being themselves means you are worshipping a petty jealous sadistic prick. Yet you want to convince people to trust a jealous sadistic cruel supernatural a$$hole? Good luck with that lol
2 people came to my house and asked for donations to the flood in pakistan.... I sail I would love donate .. but my garden hose only reach to the end of my driveway..
Were are all the billionaires and millionaires oh ya there getting paid to do commercials to ask the common folk for money but now we can barely help ourselves who will help are own people let alone help other countries if this happens again
I think they should have mentioned us. We got hit with the same tsunami in California. We even ended up with a boat from there in 2011. Just saying. I know it wasn’t as bad. But still devastated our little area.
Just think,if that power plant had been coal-fired that wave would have just put the fire out. But they just keep building nuclear power plants and telling us we have made them failsafe Famous last words! I worked as a loco fireman in my teens and if anything went wrong with the boiler or the injectors you put the fire out, and problem solved! but when things go wrong with these power plants you have the problem for thousands of years. The cheapest is not always the best.
Blaming 'western countries' for these messes kind of misses the fact that 'western countries' have decreased, and continue to decrease, their emissions of CO2 gases for the last twenty years. In 2021, the USA decommissioned dozens of coal fired plants and replaced them with less polluting natural gas fired plants. But, for every coal fired plant the USA shuts down, China builds three. India is not far behind. And the USA does not help in this. As the coal fired plants shut down, energy prices increase. 'Green' solutions are expensive. This makes energy in the USA very expensive compared to inexpensive energy in China. So manufacturing centers are shut down in the USA, and reopened where energy is less expensive.... China. And the Biden admin has promised to make energy even more expensive to force people to use less. And that means even more manufacturing moved to China, and that means even more coal fired power plants built there. While most other nations try to make goals set by the Paris agreement, China's only state goal was to TRY to stop increasing CO2 3emissions by 2030. And, so energy is becoming more expensive in the 'west' even as they use less and pollute less. China only increases their emissions. And they laugh at us. All the way to the bank, they laugh at us.
Corporations laugh their way back from the bank while you blame Biden and immigrants and whoever-else. Our oil pumping rate in AMERICA is barely down even compared to the Trump years. You think Trump loved oil? And this is, for whatever reason, in 'thousands of barrels of oil' as drawn from US reserves-and-sources. And, darn you, I want you to know that I am /trying/ to help...and that means 'doing math at 4am' so I don't forget to do it later..! 2016: 104,901 2017: 112,657 2018: 130550 2019: 148500 2020: 137300 As a reminder, "Something Happened" in 2020-2023 that cut into our gas use in random amounts... And now...not that it's huge, but it's a clue that you're blaming the wrong guys while the corporations laugh the whole way on the way to buy another superyacht for themselves to use on only-Tuesday because when you're this rich, why not?! 2021: 133500 So we're /slightly/ down from 2020's 137300, -3800 to be as exact as I can be. So if Biden isn't ruining our energy prices, then who is..? ( Also, the pumping data I found offhand only goes to Feb 2022, so that doesn't help 2022 numbers yet. That won't change anything anyway because...) Did you know that ExxonMobil and BP and Shell have filed /record/ profits again this quarter right? From a news article I found by searching for 'Shell profit q1 2023', though the quote I was thinking of was actually for Shell's record-setting adjusted full-year-2022 income of 39.9 billion. That is PROFIT for *2022*. They were so profitable they have just announced, and I quote, "...a $4 billion share buyback program, which is expected to be completed by its first-quarter 2023 results, and a 15% dividend per share increase for the fourth quarter." In a search for "Exxonmobil record profit since", this is my second result. Quoting directly from the article: "ExxonMobil raked in $55.7 billion in annual profits, shattering a 2008 record of $45 billion and setting a new goalpost for American and European fossil fuel companies. Exxon CEO Darren Woods said the stellar annual profits came on the back of “a favorable market”-a combination of recovery in activity after covid and prices skyrocketing since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022-but credited the firm with taking advantage of the undersupplied market. “We leaned in when others leaned out,” he said. While Woods celebrated the result, the White House called it “outrageous.” The Biden administration has been calling on oil companies, which receive hundreds of billions of dollars in public subsidies, to reinvest their profits to increase oil production to alleviate supply constraints following Russia’s war in Ukraine and lower energy prices." So there's Exxonmobil, profitable year after year since their 1999 merger. The first year they lost money since then was 2020...the 'rona finally bit them, for a $22 bn loss. You know...not even half of the profit from this ONE year. So how about an oil refinery company? Surely they must be hurting, right? Yeeeeano. "...while refiner ConocoPhillips doubled its profits to $18.7 billion, the highest in the 10 years since it spun off its refining business." (from another article, I can't keep up with all of the keywords-used, you can figure out how to google this stuff if you want to bother to. Please do bother to...this nation needs our citizens sensible, but 'rage baiting without thought' is all the rage at the moment. Know how California's electric is super-expensive and very-unreliable...except at 'setting fires' which it's very good at? That's because the State has a program that pays PG&E extra bonuses to lay new lines but not REPLACE or upgrade current ones. The old gets older, because it's not profitable enough for them to bother. Upgrading all those dangerous, past-their-lifetime power towers would cost a lot, so their lobbyists keep breaking any attempts to change those laws by screaming, "They're gonna raise your taxes again!" which isn't even true, and is often utterly unrelated to the issue at hand, but then The Hate Horde comes out of everywhere DEMANDING that they keep these broken laws that leave PG&E not-fixing any of their stuff until it LITERALLY breaks and falls down because guess what? That's "new lines" at that point and becomes more profitable! If they pretend to be REALLY busy laying new line elsewhere already in the state they can even get paid /premium/ rates to go do the repairs first instead of finishing wiring a second line into a richer area somewhere. They get to cause, ignore, and then eventually get PAID for fixing the things they should have fixed all along. Since suing them into the ground would wreak havoc with the grid's ownership, they have to grant immunity to the power company in almost all cases. I think MAYBE the Camp fire got around that somehow. I don't recall how. PG&E is rarely successfully sued. But sure, go on hating Biden and Russians and Mexicans and "Radical Leftist Liberal Communist Redneck-hating Democrats" or whatever the banner-hateline is for then nowadays...and whoever or whatever else you want to hate aside from our actual problem...but our NATION'S enemy of dire threat right now are *Corporations*, on almost all fronts. Or issue with energy costs is that we privatized the grids and didn't do it sensibly. We're kinda in the '90's from air travel', remember those great days, when it seemed like a jet went down about every week or two? We had to wreck the FAA and change even their base charter to make it more citizen-protective and make it actually WORK. The FAA has issues even now, no argument there, but not '90's levels of dysfunction'. That's where our grids and our refineries/oil suppliers are...getting profit at all costs, cutting every corner they can, and just bailing out of the industry if they get caught doing anything TOO egregious. We like to pretend that changing the CEO or CFO magically rebuilds a company somehow...but it doesn't. They make mouth-noises about fixing things, and then the Administration changes before they get that far, then people forget, then...oh hey, more record profits! Think about how insane that is...Exxon only lost money on its merger-from-hell in 1999, and again in 2020 from the coronavirus lockdowns. That's, what, *88* quarters of record profit after record profit? Something like that, plus-or-minus a handful. But the big problem is, the REAL issue requires you to look, read, understand...how many people who click this Reply and see its size will even read more than one line, maybe one paragraph?! But, darn it, I have to try.
Uhh, China is trashed, both from covid (>20 MILLION dead so far) & their population now has largest number of retired folks & least number of workers entering work force in the world with Russia 2nd. Add financial disasters that have crippled China & we got nothing...no manufacturing, no agriculture, no shipping. Extensive flooding north wiped out agriculture, drought in south produced NO SAFE WATER for millions & loss of shipping routes. "China" won't exist in near future. Manufacturing companies closed & more closing & moving out of China. I won't even mention collapse of real-estate with corruption & tofu building practices that was so much of their financial might.
You can prepare for anything imaginable, but mother nature has power beyond the imagination.
I am on the Georgia Florida line and have seen pine tree needles stuck into the sides of pine trees from strong wind. On another occasion my brother was flooded out of his house and had to move. I myself experienced the eye of Hurricane Andrew in 1992. It's a savagely beautiful sight to witness.
Yep it is horrible and amazing at the same time. I was born and raised in florida and then ended up right in a tornado in toledo ohio ..freakin crazy
Slightly intense
Just curious, what makes flooding the most deadly type of catastrophe I mean personally, I would think a tornado or a fire would come extremely close to that or a tornado or an earthquake I mean what’s so spectacular about a flood
@@carolgeorgeson9632 I’ve only ever been in a flood. What was it like to be in a tornado I can only imagine the fear.
Despite the risks, the city decided to rebuild once more I mean no offence but slightly stupid you’re literally asking for problems
If you haven't seen it, watch the documentary for the boxing day tsunami. It's a tear jerker but shows multiple perspectives of people who endured the tsunami around the Indian Ocean.
I will go watch
Yes it's good but very upsetting seeing dead bodies floating around also many stories of miraculous survival 😢
@@vickythefist7062 Ik 🥲🕊️🕊️
Ok…. You’re telling me it took a disaster in 2004 for us to know that lesser developed countries need warning systems too?!?!?!?!?
THATS DISGUSTING!
Most of those goverments do not even think about it because it's not for free... and if those goverments are corrupt why bother paying all that money if I can buy some planes and helikopters oh and boats, not forgetting boats oh and a speedboat and ehm... guns yes loads of guns for the police and army... Crap, I'm almost forgetting my 5 palaces... Need 1 for every season and a spare one for my mistresses... oh and a management team if one of my wifes shows up there...
A tsunami warning system?? Why, that hardly ever happens. No, do not need that.
Once again we are reminded by nature
@@mashelkiki7918😊
I agree 100%
Y’all understand how tall 30 meters is? That’s 98 feet. A 98 foot wave…. Jesus
Surfs up dude
WOW!
The 3/11 Japanese Earthquake had
recorded wave heights of +40m (Insanely Scary), but the Lituya Bay Mega tsunami in Alaska reached a wave height of over 1500ft! A man and his son actually boat ride the wave and survived!
@@SparkyisaDick The bay was narrow as opposed to the Japan tsunami hence the height difference.
@@SparkyisaDick luckily the island kept the trees from damaging the boat and sinking it
Born, raised, and still live in New Orleans. Katrina was f*king horrible. I can't believe it's almost been 20 years
Even off the United States Southern coast, we need to rebuild the barrier islands and the mangroves. The degradation of those barrier islands may have had a major impact on the devastation during Katrina.
I was on a cruise along Mexico and Cali that docked in Long Beach on that day. My uncle noticed how calm the entire ocean and port went for just a few moments when we were getting off the ship. The next day we heard why 😢😮 luckily it wouldn’t have hurt the boat any, but crazy to see the ocean change like that. I’ll never forget that he spotted that and made me look
I was 12 when Sandy hit. I live in central Pennsylvania, and even we were greatly affected. There is a creek going through my town, and the town itself is essentially built at the bottom of a valley. For those of you not from PA, a creek is a small river lol. The high school is built right next to the creek on one side, and the middle school on the other side. Both of them had to be evacuated due to sudden flash flooding, with kids fleeing the building as water was rushing toward them like a tsunami. The largest elementary schools were in town and both also experienced some flooding. The water rose so high that it flooded part of the high school. Dozens of people died throughout the county, and my town in particular was hit the hardest. We had military trucks rolling through our small semi rural town as the National Guard was sending aid to help evacuate and hand out food and water. The county was also essentially cut in half by this flooding, and people were stuck for days staying at friends' houses or sleeping in schools and churches. Some areas were completely cut off and the military had to deliver food by boat. All of this may not sound all that surprising during a hurricane, but bear in mind this was central Pennsylvania, we are almost 200 miles from the nearest coastline. We were not at all prepared for anything like that.
I am so Sorry you and your town Went through that
I'm a Floridian, so I can relate. But it had to be horrible because as you said, your town wasn't used to it like we are. I hope you and your family have long since recovered.
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My hometown was flooded indirectly by heavy rainfall from the northern part of the state at least 200 miles away. A day later, the water worked it’s way down and seemingly converged in our town all at once and by complete surprise to the citizens. There were actually fish swimming in the halls of our High School. Like your town, people were stuck on islands between the local creeks and rivers and spent the night with friends, etc.
I believe that you are missing the point regarding the failures associated with this tsunami. In United States we have done a significant amount of analysis regarding all types of hazards and nuclear facilities. We have developed a complex and highly accurate statistical model of all potential hazards for every nuclear site. The problem is that the Japanese chose to be rather arrogant regarding potential hazards. United States officials with the NRC warned Japanese officials back in the 1980s that they had not properly designed the reactor systems against all potential hazards. Using statistical mottles, it was obvious that there emergency systems were totally insufficient and their designs inadequate. For example emergency emergency electrical systems are NEVER allowed to be located below ground level. In fact re require the feedbackup system be located far above a potential flood from a 1000 your rains and 1000 year snow fields... Whichever is greater. It is absolutely absurd to locate an emergency backed up below ground level anywhere near the coastline... This negligence is far greater when one considers the high probability of a tsunami. We were totally confused as to why the Japanese chose to place their emergency backup systems below ground. This is just pure negligence. 2nd is the issue of a pressure relief system for the reactor. Since the 1960s we in the United States recognize the potential for water being disassociated at high temperatures because of the Zircoloy cladding. This would cause the pressure to increase in the reactor vessel. In response, all US PWR reactors have pressure relief systems as was demonstrated at 3 mile island. Once again it is totally absurd for the Japanese to not have a pressure relief system in the event of a LOCA (Loss of current accident)...which is exactly what occurred. If the Japanese had accepted our input on either one of these issues, the crisis could have been avoided. Worse is the fact that they are overstating the radiologic release to gain International funding. The actual greatest radiologic release from the tsunami resulted from the extensive fires and not the reactor. (Thorium released from burning organic matter.) This crisis did not occur because nuclear reactors are inherently unsafe; quite the contrary. Most of the people died because once again the Japanese officials failed or refused to acknowledge the potential height of a tsunami. A rapid statistical analysis would indicate that officials needed to design for a height of at least 15 and 20 m. [I believe that the standard of 10-E6 (The US standard for nuclear facilities.) would require a height of 20 m. Non-nuclear facilities might have a lower standard.] Most of the Japanese systems were designed for a height of only 7 to 10 m. [The nuclear reactor design obviously did not even consider a tsunami as a credible hazard which is patently absurd.] Once again this is pure negligence, arrogance, and/or incompetence. Yes, I am a retired research engineer; have engineering degrees, training, and certifications in mechanical, electrical, civil, and nuclear engineering; and have NRC NQA-1 certifications in all of the technical areas associated with this case.
Thank you for your input. I wondered why Japan would locate a nuclear site at a beach. obviously dangerous.
On the opposite side of Earth and 35 years after the fact, one of the casualties was a favorite student of mine. He was a Graduate Student from Banda Aceh, Indonesia and my job was to shepherd him though his Master's Degree. Over the next 16 years he wrote to me of his profession progress as a practicing Christian in a Muslim country. Of his father's death while he was completing his Ph.D. After the Christmas Tsunami I never herard another thing.
It seems unlikely that something so horrific half a world away continues to give me personal grief over one life.
I'm so sorry for the loss of your friend!
I just wish it didn't take a disaster for humans to work together.
Same
Yeah something like going to a close brothers funeral. They care at the moment but next day back to doing. If y'all no what I mean! Heartless people in the world!
I think humans forget that others are in fact human too..they forget..we all walked out of Africa in waves to settle an entire globe..we are one we are all
Truth be told that sentiment of us all being human is not very prevalent during or immediately following a disaster. This is one of the times when you can see just how inhumane people really are.
It alway's comes back to money... I just wish the world could be less money driven...
Yeah... if you ever see the tide go out that much and that quickly.... Run. Don't look back, just run. Run for the highest point. Why were people just standing there and watching the damn thing coming in like a bunch of logs standing there?!? RUN!!!!
They’re idiots
It amazes me how many people don't know the warning signs but even if you don't know, you'd hope their lizard brain and flight instincts would kick in.
Instinctive fear response: flight, fight, freeze, fawn. People can rationally understand something normally, and when faced it they can become so overwhelmed with fear that they just can’t comprehend something is happening. Perhaps they thought “oh god, no chance I’m not dead” and resign to the fate. Or the fear was so great they thought “this isn’t real, it’s just a dream” or start begging whatever god they believed in to bargain and beg.
You’d think you’d realize and react like you said, but you don’t know what will happen until you face that EXACT fear at that EXACT moment.
Yes I remember those Thai ladies shouting run run, but that guy in the trunks just stood there 😮..Never understood that
@@rachelann9362 This. It's amazing how many people freeze up when scared. I'm one of those people unless I've practiced exactly what to do in specific emergencies. Thankfully, I'm also somewhat paranoid, so I *have* practiced what to do in a number of situations of varying likelihood.
My heart feels like it's breaking. I can't even imagine the pain of losing a Child or Baby. My Husband was a Police Officer and he was murdered six years ago, it almost killed me, I couldn't eat, shower nothing.... A Child, the loss of one would kill me. May God look over all and help them🕊️
so sorry for your loss. 🙏🏼
I am so sorry for your loss and for your children’s loss I was an emergency manager in our police department and people just don’t know what kind of question marks they’re facing every day and it’s really hard for the family. I appreciate your family service.
I'm sorry for the loss of your hero, JoAnne! I have buried two husbands, now, lost three babies who were born sleeping and both my adopted children left this earth far too early. My daughter was taken at 38, as a result of her drug addiction, and my son, at 28, shot by a madman who desired to watch someone die. That nearly killed me, as he was my baby boy!
Through it all, I have found that God is ever merciful and loving, healing the broken hearted and never leaving us alone in our pain. It is He who keeps me strong, assuring me that they are all waiting for me and that I will be with them again!
What a glorious reunion that will be!
Did I miss the bit about Pakistan where they explained the effect of all those nuclear power stations in the are which are warming the climate? I'm glad they did mention the criminal deforestation which is a huge cause of catastrophic flooding in the region. It seems this flooding has far more to do with that than climate change.
The area is so fertile. It could be very prosperous. The Dutch manage prosperity on a tiny swamp purely with persistence in the face of adversity and cleverness regarding land management. Removing barriers to flooding, like trees, simply should not be allowed.
Same story in much of India and also Nepal (unless they've stopped) and I've heard the chainsaws have been busy in Tibet the last 4 decades too - blasting the mountains with dynamite in the Himalayas for slate probably doesn't help much either. Then everyone is surprised when there's an Earth Quake!
I'm pretty sure building huge dams and putting massive bodies of water where they never used to be might have had some connection to the tsunami. Just my wondering, I don't have evidence.
And it's always the most vulnerable poor people who suffer from this awful management issue. Why are these events not planned for properly? There is no need for any shortage anywhere, there is a need for good management.
I’ve been in shallow flood water.. it is nothing to mess with. Man it’s strength is impossible to comprehend. Even as a young strong man I was hopeless. Don’t go near this pretty looking small flow
There’s a tidal inlet near Kennedy Airport in NYC that is notorious for its seeming harmlessness killing some dozen people every year. The water is shallow, about eight inches in depth, with a smooth appearance. It looks to be still when, in reality, it possesses a strong undertow that knocks over people and sweeps them out to sea beneath the depths. There’s a no swimming or wading sign, but people ignore it.
I was helping evacuate flooded areas in the early 90s with my old military deuce and a halfs we had the tops off because some places we had to drive standing up all you could see was our chest up with the exhaust stack and snorkel sticking out of the water knowing if we hit a sinkhole we'd be swimming for our lives the pole in the back we were towing flat bottom aluminum boats by was under water in the first places we were getting people from their roofs at after the news caught us doing it the cops shut that down really quick so we switched to 5 ft of water or less (since we were on 54 inch tires) after evacuations were done we switched to sandbag delivery to areas that hadn't yet flooded but were going to within days
True that, bro. It only takes a few inches of water to move a car. And it's impossible to tell if the road has washed away. I lived through back-to-back floods that came 2 months apart. We had a farm bordering the Willamette River. It was pretty impressive to watch. Being on the only high ground, we stayed there for the first one; it was Christmas break too. But we rented a place in town for the 2nd one so mom wouldn't miss work.
Those floodwaters swallowed a tractor that didn't get moved to the highest ground, and left big canyons that had to be filled in. Still, it didn't touch the house, shed, or other equipment. We were blessed.
Moving water is a big hell no to drive through standing water is pretty safe unless you know there's random sinkholes in the area
@@davidwoermansr ppppppppppppppppopppppp
The devastation that caused was mind boggling. Ppl was there enjoying sun and relaxing during Christmas and their whole world got turned upside down, but the poor locals lost everything, so sad.
The movie with a very young Tom Holland was amazing and gave a damn good feeling of the insanity of it all
The movie with a very young Tom Holland was amazing and gave a damn good feeling of the insanity of it all
The movie is called The Impossible. Some vacationers also lost everything when they lost their children to the wave.
@@sharleneblock4888 Eh, the vacationers went home and back to their businesses which were safe and sound, the locals on the other hand, THEY were the 1's who lost everything, they lost friends, family, homes and businesses, and they had to be careful of the food and water they ate and drank due to the reactors leaking, big big difference
Watching this makes you realize how like ants we are when it comes to the forces of nature such a tsunami, I remember seeing this on tv and my heart broke for all who were left behind it shows you life can be swept away in a second /God bless all who died and those who did so much to help those who were injured / to bury/to nurse / to comfort/ etc as it says in scripture tomorrow is not promised to any off us /be thankful for your life it is a gift x
Yes compassion but throughout all of scripture God uses nature as judgement He promised not to completely flood the entire earth but to say He isn't aware of the #1 sin of a people UNBELIEF is not biblical Japan has consistently denied Christ for millenniums not centuries They worshipped the Emperor all the way to the end of World War 2 .Is every natural disaster a specific judgement probably not but many are The USA is getting slammed with natural disasters 63 million murdered in the womb Judgement is coming here hard Judgement is coming to our planet Covid for sure is a warm up to the MARK OF THE BEAST Bottom line Repent and yes Christians will die in the Judgement but death here is life in heaven Japan like many countries is a Christ denying country The USA was protected but not anymore Judgement is already here a Supreme Court nominee can't tell you what a women is THIS IS THE HIGHEST COURT ON PLANET EARTH
Your message is sensitive. I see some using scripture to condemn and blame, and it makes me sad. Scripture is best used as a source of hope and wisdom in trials, and as a celebration of gratitude when circumstances allow. You are a gift to the world,
@@tabaxikhajit4541 Jesus is coming not as meek and mild Jeremiah 1:5 I knew you before you were in the womb what does that insinuate?63 million babies Do you remember a thing called the flood ?God wiped out everyone except 8 people Have you turned on the news ? Wars and rumors of wars Increasing earthquakes floods hurricanes famine. Is God condemning the world ? John 3:18 is there GOOD NEWS YES JOHN 3:16-17 You never heard the expression IF GOD DOESNT JUDGE AMERICA HE WILL HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO SODOM AND GOMMORAH I weep over the lost we are talking my mother and 3 brothers and many friends DO YOU WEEP OVER THE LOST? The God of the Old Testament is the same God of the New there is NO FEAR OF GOD anymore look up scripture that talks about FEARING GOD The lost will be eternally tormented again we are talking my MOTHER! Do you share THE GOOD NEWS Read your bible from Genesis to Revelation this world ends on a horrific note When you weep and pray and share the Gospel and disciple new believers your opinion is not worth merit if you have a problem with what I'm saying bring it up with God not me if your best friend was about to get into a fiery crash what would you do ? Gently hold their hand and say oh by the way you will have 3rd degree burns all over your body next week? Nonchalantly? I WOULD SCREAM TURN FROM YOUR SINS AND HOLD ONTO JESUS LIKE ITS LIFE AND DEATH WHY? BECAUSE IT IS!
@@tabaxikhajit4541 heres a song for you Zach Williams HEART OF GOD
@@marktracy1988 I watched the video. Thank you. That is what being a Christian means to me. :' )
People need to live on mountains away from the oceans. Homes built where rain runn off goes directly into the sea....
Love the way the editor just cuts the scientific explanation off mid sentence
There was another documentary that stated both Kamaishi and Fukushima's levies were high enough but due to subsidence of three feet as a result of the quake, they were then rendered useless.
Yes, I saw that documentary about how the cities were lowered three feet.
Ok so the entire building sunk for 0.9144 meters??
@@lewisbale1 the entire cities?... or the whole island?
Thank you for sharing this video 🙂👍
As a former writer, my experience has taught me not to personify a natural disaster. Humans are not “lost” they are killed. Violent natural disasters are not to be “dumped” to our brilliant earths people. The sickest language in this program should be put on trial: it is unacceptable, condescending and full of lies. The people who were interviewed were poor representatives of humans. I am shocked at the vile approach to this catastrophe and how the victims were spoken to. Shame on all who played a part in the coverage of this dangerous event! I hope you are all fired. Get qualified catastrophe management professionals to assist with professional help and language!
@@missnellaful tell us how you really feel
With Japan knowing just vulnerable they were to a tsunami - it's incredibly irresponsible that they would put both the emergency generators and the fuel for such on the ground instead of on top of the highest building. Had they simply done that there would never have been a Fukushima disaster.
This will never stop, no matter what humans do. Mother Nature is to powerful and this is her way to cleanse the world
Despite disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima, nuclear power is still the safest and most reliable form of energy production. Chernobyl was the result of Soviet corner cutting, poor management, and even poorer design. Fukushima was the result of inadequate planning for extreme worst case scenarios. As stated in this video, officials didn't consider the possibility of such a large tsunami because it was deemed extremely improbable to occur. Also, common sense should tell you that building a nuclear power plant on the one coastline in the world that gets hit with the most earthquakes and tsunamis is a very bad idea. Even when taking these events into account, nuclear power is _still_ safer and far more cost and material effective than other power production methods. Far more people die each year from fossil fuel collection, processing, and burning, than all total deaths from nuclear power incidents. Nuclear power plants are the solution to climate change that people ignore out of fear because they don't understand it.
wouldn't thorium be better? but then, we couldn't make nuclear weapons could we?
Total deaths doesn't say much because fossil fuel is much more commonly used. If you look at how many people work in nuclear power and the *percentage* of those who die compared to the same categories in fossil fuel, then you'd have a compelling argument.
@@brigidtheirish Total deaths meaning all people. Not just workers. Fossil fuels are estimated to kill millions of people *every year.* Even with the most liberal of estimates, nuclear power has killed less than 30,000 people in it's entire existence. Even if you include the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan and not _just_ power plants, it's far less than just one million. Since 1945, nuclear energy and nuclear weapons have killed absolutely no more than a million people, the real number is likely far smaller. Every year, fossil fuels kill millions of people. The difference is staggering.
@@jeremy5602 You're missing my point. Fossil fuels have been used for much longer and are much more common. A clearly defined percentage would give a better picture of the risks involved because it'd be based on *proportions.*
@@brigidtheirish My guy. Less than a million people in about 80 years for nuclear. Greater than three million every. single. year. for fossil fuels. At the very least. A significant portion of annual deaths can be directly linked to fossil fuels. Every year. One million deaths due to nuclear power and nuclear weapons in an EXTREMELY HIGH estimate on my part. It's more likely under 400,000 deaths. Probably closer to 300,000 deaths. Again, that's in the entire time since nuclear fission was first achieved. Almost a century ago. Fossil fuels cause AT LEAST 3,000,000 DEATHS EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. Some estimates put it as high as 1 in every 5 deaths are caused by fossil fuels. What is so hard to grasp about this? Fossil fuels TEN TIMES more people every single year than the people who were killed directly or indirectly by the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. The use of fossil fuels is more than TEN TIMES deadlier than the atomic bombs used in WW2.
Tsunamis aren’t necessarily like the movies..could be just a few feet high but billions of tons of pressure.. enough to throw a train down your street
1 meter of water in cube form ways 1 ton... so imagine how many tons are comming towarts you when a wave like in the video's comes at you...
10,000 kilometers an hour. Oh my God!
Yea.. 600 mph is about right.your not gonna make it through this .. not even Superman
@@mikekincaid7412 Superman could, he would just turn back time to fix it. At least in 1 of the 3 movies with Christopher Reeve he could. 😋
For the heart-breaking Katrina tragedy, a fish rots from the head down, and in this case it was a horrific failing that I hope won't be repeated.
They restored the old version of water repellent (what was clearly not good enough) as seen in the video. They (local goverment) contacted the Dutch after this disaster but did not follow trough. Perhaps their solution was to expensive but from what I heard the Dutch got the impression that they would just do it them selfs. So they never even came back to The Netherlands...
I still remember seeing bodies floating in the water after Katrina. Saw a couple crocodiles, too.
Florida too, have crocodiles & they don't need much water to be hidden..
Why would you build a nuclear power plant on the coast of the most earthquake active place on the planet 🤔
Because they require large amounts of water to operate so they are often built next to water. There aren't any places on earth that don't have earthquakes so the problem wasn't where they built it, the problems arose from how it was built. Obviously they didn't adequately design safety systems to withstand the environmental conditions it was subjected to.
@@donaldbiden1920 exactly, if the wall was built that bit higher the situation wouldn’t of been that bad. But they didn’t expect the wave to be that big.
@@katj3443the earthquake facilitated a land mass drop that compromised the T-breaks for the wave even further and amounted to a wave size and strength they hadn't predicted. The vast majority of the cause for Fukushima was and continues to be human error and valuing money over people's lives. Look at where they had their emergency back ups, below the standing water line how the hell was that going to work when under water. Answer it wasn't.
The real question is why did they put the back up generators in the basement? Why not run a power line up the nearest hill and install generators there? I mean, it's not rocket science. Or maybe it is :(
@@carolwolf9614 what you propose is simple common sense and therefore not rocket science. The one caveat I could offer the designers and builders of Fukushima is that for ease of access in an emergency unlike what they actually faced. In the design phase the engineers and architects have to think about every plausibility and rate them on the likelihood of occurrence ratio, the higher the likelihood they implement counter measures to prevent catastrophic failure which would lead to a meltdown of the NFC's. Japan just failed to take into account its geological location and that of the Reactors as to their history of geological and oceanographic events from the ROF. A study was done on the impact on the impact that the event, short term release, long term release or radioactive contaminated water being dumped in the ocean and it wasn't a good prognosis. They made a total of ten KNOWN dumps in the area of 30,000 gallons of irradiated water into the pacific in the last 8 + years and it isn't being neutralized as first though. Which is why fisheries throughout the pacific are stringently monitored as there is a red zone extending from the plant some three hundred miles out into the pacific ocean. All which would have been prevented if they thought like you and many experts do.
39 meter tsunami wave is madness
While most of the information in this documentary is accurate, the information concerning the Fukushima reactor is not correct. In the mid to late 1980s, we notified the Japanese government that this reactor had numerous potential problems. I am a Real Nuclear Engineer ( 3 engineering degrees, and I have certifications in mechanical, electrical, and nuclear engineering. I was also certified to analyze abnormal conditions that may impact a reactor system. Specifically we noted 2 design flaws. The 1st was the fact that the emergency diesel generators were below grade. This is never allowed in the United States. It made the backup system susceptible to failure with flooding or a tsunami. The 2nd issue involved the pressure vessel. We know that if the backup cooling system fails there is a potential for oxidation of the Zircoloy (zuriconium cladding) surrounding the fuel. When this material oxidizes it releases hydrogen which increases the pressure. All US reactors have mechanisms to release this pressure. The reactors in Japan often do not have this capability which puts them at great risk for an explosion. It is important to note that it cannot result in an actual "meltdown" but the fuel can "partially melt" due to the decay heat. ( All of the reactors correctly "scrambled" and as such there was no longer any "fisson heat". However, a small percentage of heat caused by Radioactive decay did remain. This heat would drop off very quickly. (This is what occurred at the 3 mile island complex in Pennsylvania in 1979. There was no radioactive release of concern and there was no explosion of the reactor.) The problem in Japan was the fact that they had no ability to release the pressure. The explosion caused a release of the radioactive elements contained in the reactor. The largest amount of vision products is Molly 90 and cesium 137. A small amount of radioactive iodine was also released. Because reelective iodine can be absorbed by the body, There was a concern. However the concern was greatly overstated because most of The real activity died released by the reactor cannot be absorbed by the body. The danger was grossly overstated. The greatest radionuclide release was tridium ("heavy hydrogen") which decays with a low energy Beta Particle which is not dangerous to humans. This danger was greatly overstated.
After seeing the results of all this, I need to Reconnect, with God.
And we all need to continue to look after our world.
God bless all, who are directly and indirectly inpacked by all this. 🙏💙
God isn’t real 😂
Coverage was like covering a low grade Canadian rock concert. Just showy chaos, a terrible untrained group of showoffs. An emergency is serious!
Visited Sri Lanka back in 2001...the hotel complex is now gone...with many great Sri Lankan families 😢
We remember lots of tragedies, but not this one...the biggest of all...why?
And yet, none of the buoys are in working order.
But they look good make people feel safe and cost alot that's all that matters
The people in Sumatra had virtually no chance to avoid the Boxing Day tsunami. The quake lasted the better part of 10 minutes. The water arrived within 15 to 20 minutes. So the water hit shortly after people were just able to stand up.
In the flat coastal plain around Aceh, there was no high ground to reach within 10 minutes anyway. The Indonesians were utterly at the mercy of the quake and the water.
In Thailand, India, and Sri Lanka there wasn't strong ground shaking to alert people to anything. In some places the water did draw back ...and far too many people didn't know what that meant. Locals and foreigners alike.
In other areas there was no water draw back. One minute everything seemed normal, the next the sea seemed to just lift up and a huge flood ran in for the next hour. There were no signs to fail to observe or understand.
love how they always interview the tourists...
could do without the annoying and unnecessary static and visuals at scene changes. good thing i'm not an epileptic. otherwise, thank you
What's it suppose to do to an epileptic maybe I didn't notice it happen or didn't realize what happened
Flashing lights can set off a seizure if the person or animal that suffers from epilepsy sees it.
I have had epilepsy since I had a high fever at age 3.
If you ever have a child that develops a high fever, and you have to put them into a bathtub filled with nothing but ice to cool them down, please, tell your child what you are doing.
I didn't understand, when I was age 4, why Mom was making me stay in the bathtub, while Dad was pouring ice around me.
They explained to me, when I was 8.
I really hate the ice and being cold now.
Heartbroken 💔
omg the puppy stuck in the window bars :( :( :(
That Poor OBS Bronco😞 1:49:40
Imagine having a house on the beach with ocean views or on a flat lake 💀
Imagine living 5 miles from the ocean and all of a sudden instead of farmland you have ocean front property with boats and ships and debris from everything between you and the ocean in your fields after the water goes back to normal
@@davidwoermansr Tons of money from selling scrap and ocean front property ?
@@ussstropicana that would be ok if the price of scrap ever got decent again right now I have close to 20 semi loads ready to haul (a solid 17 for sure) when the price goes back up and that's just iron I've stripped and separated the copper and aluminum out catalytic converters is all I've sold in a long time
@@davidwoermansr From the way things are going
you may be sitting on your scraps for a good while.
@@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073 I've got nothing but time my farm and selling parts pays the bills and my share in my kids buissneses helps and I keep my OTR trucks moving I'm in 1 when it's slow around the farm and prices are low moving heavy equipment pays good and I can always find backhauls to get me close to home the joys of owning your own trucks I can reject anything I don't like the looks of and if I'm hauling it I get paid what I want or I move on
It also makes me realize how we must always take care of this beautiful planet the lord created and take better care of every animal insect tree every bit of it its simply cant get anymore beautiful in my eyes i thank god every night and always pray for those who suffer always give back or help others at least i try some are just to selfish and greedy even to give thanks thats pittyful
A monumental and most impressive piece of work! Thank you for your trouble.
Ryno Meyer
Johannesburg, South Africa 2:11:33
It's a horrible shame it took a disaster to put warnings in place these poor people
Yes. Someone get a see-it-all psychic for this place.
brilliant
Fuku radiation is STILL going into the sea, more than before!
Companies will do any despicable thing to save $$$ & effort. Supposedly smart people aren't. Commenters will come here & blab about how dumping toxic crap is safe. Meanwhile leaking and dumping continues in many other places.
Reminds me of the comet strike passages In the Pournelle Niven novel 'Lucifers Hammer'. 100 meter Tsunami wave striking LA is the largest of these passages. It includes a small band of surfers who decide to die riding the ultimate wave.
10:59 this dude's worried about his bike..... dude if you're dead, swept away you wont need that bike... LET IT GO AND SAVE YOURSELF.... WTF some people just baffle me frfr..
it's like life or death and he says " but my bike"
Haven't seen much of this video, but if it was a local, that bike may have been the only way he could get to work, support his family, or use to make money to live. If it was a tourist, he's an idiot.
Might be all he had?
@@virginiahoffman2547 it's a Tsunami he will be dead if he keeps trying to save the bike and not himself..There will be no job because he will be dead..
I agree f the bike it's replaceable your body not so much
The tsunami gives me flashbacks of City Skylines.
I can still hear my panicked voice: “Why the fuck is the water THERE now!?”
I'm surprised the 1964 9.2 Magnitude Anchorage Alaska earthquake didn't even get a mention here. I guess the lack of photo's and video wasn't sensational enough to make the list.
58:40 & 59:20 Most people don't consider the size of the continental US. The larger the country is, the larger everything is that the country has too. Lake areas, forest areas, mountain areas, beach areas, and below sea level areas too ... all those areas can each be larger than some other entire countries around the world. More than a few of the 50 states are individually larger than some countries. The United States is pretty huge.
Acording to a Dutch website, The Netherlands will fit about 232 times inside the USA. 😅
How horrible! The video is great but these stories are so 😢
I agree with the exception of New Orleans I don't feel sorry for anyone who chooses to live there
@@davidwoermansrwhat a stupid thing to say
Wow it's been nearly 20 years ago I still remember this so vividly when we were all enjoying Xmas such loss
Thank you so much for sharing your haunted stories ❤
Sadly for people and animals
Oh my…how frightening tsunamis are😮😢❤
Mozambique 😢
Now Japan start to dispose this toxic water in the sea,August 2023 😢😢we are connecting one anther is going to be affecting all …
Sad
A friend lived in a ashram on the coast at Pondicherry. She said they were okay because the French when it was colonial. I asked how the villages were. She said they were gone. People, buildings, gone.
I always thought a sounomi was like a hundred foot wave.. 2 or 3 foot flow is all it takes.. a kadrillon gallons of water moving every second will take out an entire town
You thinking of rogue or tidal waves?
They said the 1 wave was 30 meters that's 98 feet
@@Holocaustica A tidal wave is moved by either gravity or wind. They are relatively small.
A tsunami is created by pressure, like a mountainside falling into a big area of water, or a glacier calving, or a volcano erupting, or a big meteorite slamming into the ocean.
I would play with a tidal wave, and run like hell away from the ocean if I heard that there was a tsunami coming towards me.
Rogue waves can be created by big winds like hurricanes, or by undersea volcanoes or landslides.
A tsunami involves the entire column of water.
A tidal wave involves just the surface of the water.
Don't heart attacks kill most in this World.
OMG that dog at 1:06:09 how sad
By the way, when the so called testing of racket launching is done under the sea, it must leaves some damages.
🏜️🌫️🌬️⚡الجعران يعطي الحرارة ⚡🌬️🌫️🏜️
The unbalance of Mankind effects everthing, even the weather.
It's still burning
Radiation in the ocean ? Hello? We all know what that brings… GODZILLA!!!
Then we have to find the mysterious island and get Kong for the main event on a PPV sports channel
OMG that's hysterical... Thank you, I needed that. Too too 🤣. Qwa qwa qwa qwa!!!
@@joyceriedel2546 yes, we all need to laugh, now more than ever! Keep smiling.
@@davidwoermansr Right?!?!
@@riandraegon556 I don't know what came over me!!! I read it, and it was a "milk squirt out the nose" moment for me! And your So Right... It felt So Good To Laugh Out Loud for Real!!! Totally 💯 With You!!
I'm glad to hear people do recognize global warming to have influence in most of the rainwater and storm disasters. (My love goes out to all the victims in all these disasters)
In a different video, about tornado's, the so called experts claimed that global warming had totaly no effect on the forming of more tornado's per year (deadly or not) while in the start of the video the same experts claimed they did not understand fully how tornado's are formed...
A. We do not now exactly how they are formed.
B. No, global warming has totaly no effect on the forming of more tornado's.
Ok, then tell me, how do you know B. if you do not even know A. ??? 😅 😅
But I got no response... 😢
The only thing that get rescue and recovery services going is national coverage and empathy from people that aren't selfish or greedy
take a shot every time they say "inundated" sdfsdfds
“A quake lasting over ten minutes….” Excuse me, what?
The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a megathrust fault running from northern California almost to Alaska, and if that thing goes it can produce a shaker even bigger than the one that hit the Indian Ocean in 2004. If and inevitably _when_ it happens, the west coasts of Canada and America are toast, because in no way are they prepared for a tsunami of that magnitude, and there are a lot of very large cities in the impact zone. The last time it went, the tsunami hit Japan even though the quake itself didn't. It was estimated to have been a magnitude 9.0 at least.
In 2016 a storm hit my area and flooded half the city. Everyone was squawking about how to prevent it from happening again, but an engineer brought in to consult on flood mitigation told the council that there is nothing that can be done. Council still wants to destroy a popular and famous nature hiking trail to put in flood control berms even though they won't be of any help at all
That’s why San Francisco has hills, refuge from tsunamis
Aren’t places like Hawaii going to be the worst victims of a quake on the west coast
The Cascadia Subduction Zone last "Unlocked" January 26, 1700. It sent a tsunami to Japan which they have records of. The Cascade Mountains Inland are related to the zone. The last mountain to "blow" up was Mount St Helens in 1980. I learned all this from Nick Zentner a Geology Professor at Central Washington University, in Ellensburg, WA USA. He is free for anyone to learn from on the internet! 👵🐈⬛🐈⬛, me and my kitties Teo and TwoTwo
This is why nuclear power stations are so dangerous spent nuclear waste takes hundreds of years to become safe. 😢😢😢
Where was the United Nation in these small countries and cities where there were so much devastation? I know with Katrina, legalities and political powers ruled. The other parts of the world, I don’t know but it was heart breaking to see. I hope the dead are at peace and the living have over come and moved forward. From USA
There were rescue teams from several countries mentioned
The UN and just about every other such organization bases it's disaster response on what that specific area/nations global contributions are. When you see teams from other countries its because they have a mutual aid pact as part of their economic or political relationship with other countries. The UN & WHO as well as the IRC are largely ineffective. As are most national disaster response/mitigation agencies/departments. Then there are the politics to consider, by this I mean outside assistance was offered but refused by that nationals leadership. This happens a lot more frequently than most could know. Most recently Canada has done this with highly trained wildfire response crews from around the world over their vaccine status for covid. It's not that help isn't offered or available it's the governmental control of and implementing of aid at its discretion which often times sees those most in need being left to fend for themselves. This happens as much in the first world countries as it does in the third world countries, so that should tell you where the bastion of aid problems really comes from. I've been a specialist in the Critical Disaster/Mutual Aid Response occupation for the last 12 years and have seen more than I care to think about.
How did they get those really big ships inland back to water? Or did they just cut them to pieces and cart them away? (The big metal ones)
Katrina hit as a cat 5
"If you, like me, thought that this combination of things would surely result in brilliant cinema-and definitely not an unredeemable disaster that isn’t worth watching-it brings me no pleasure to tell you that you’re wrong. And that’s what makes it so puzzling.".......anonamyous.
You can not put wild life at fault as they took the tiger away from its natural habitat let them be free
Jesus Christ! LMFAO 😭😭😭 At 8:26 please, too funny!
streets going in all direction it is just like veins
3 years before it in Japan they were drilling into a methane deposit off the same fault an destabilized the fault when drilled into the methane bed. And Japan will never admit 8t was a methane drill rig responsible for it
When He says obey me & His commandments, He do mean it , repercussions follow if we don't, aka natural disaster's!, earth quake's, hurricanes, blizzards, floods , exc & worse : (
Obey, obey not, the earthquakes, the tsunamis, the typhoons, the volcanos, the tornadoes will still come.
Anyway, how could you pretend to know what ''He (or She)'' wants ?
proud prophet or something ? Peace.
😂😂😂😂😂
So if it's punishment for not obeying why in so many disasters do the heathens survive while churches children's hospitals and religious people get smashed up and killed
Open your mind for three seconds and fire up your last brain cell and think about this: Since god obviously knows people are going to act like people and do what they do since he CREATED THEM FROM NOTHING, the idea that he still threatens to murder his very own creation for being themselves means you are worshipping a petty jealous sadistic prick. Yet you want to convince people to trust a jealous sadistic cruel supernatural a$$hole? Good luck with that lol
If you’re going to go on vacation along a coast that subject to tsunamis it’s best to get a wrist ID that has to be cut off
2 people came to my house and asked for donations to the flood in pakistan....
I sail I would love donate .. but my garden hose only reach to the end of my driveway..
Were are all the billionaires and millionaires oh ya there getting paid to do commercials to ask the common folk for money but now we can barely help ourselves who will help are own people let alone help other countries if this happens again
Hopefully this doesn't happen to us again with this administration I can't help myself now let alone help my countrymen
Of course that is until now
Natural disasters always bring great damage
Repent all your sins as soon as possible please because JESUS CHRIST coming soon as JUDGE
Does cholera in municipal water supply here in south africa count ? thats become a thing now
I think they should have mentioned us. We got hit with the same tsunami in California. We even ended up with a boat from there in 2011. Just saying. I know it wasn’t as bad. But still devastated our little area.
They said it affected the U.S. Coast and also caused loss of life in Hawaii
Main character vibes from you lady
@@davidwoermansrshe wants to feel included
@@Aussiematee had she listened she was included just not by name
0:22 It's Jason Bourne
QUE JUDIARIA COM O SER HUMANO EU ACHO QUE DEUS NAO PRECISA DE NOS OUTRA COISA NOS NAO PEDIMOS PR VIR A ESSE MUNDO NOS NAO MERECEMOS ISSO
There's no scientif person or not humans that can predict details of any desasters we don't have mind or power to do so.Only GOD knows!
Lot of talk n info is good but not a lot of video or images. 😕
Just think,if that power plant had been coal-fired that wave would have just put the fire out. But they just keep building nuclear power plants and telling us we have made them failsafe Famous last words! I worked as a loco fireman in my teens and if anything went wrong with the boiler or the injectors you put the fire out, and problem solved! but when things go wrong with these power plants you have the problem for thousands of years. The cheapest is not always the best.
Blaming 'western countries' for these messes kind of misses the fact that 'western countries' have decreased, and continue to decrease, their emissions of CO2 gases for the last twenty years. In 2021, the USA decommissioned dozens of coal fired plants and replaced them with less polluting natural gas fired plants. But, for every coal fired plant the USA shuts down, China builds three. India is not far behind. And the USA does not help in this. As the coal fired plants shut down, energy prices increase. 'Green' solutions are expensive. This makes energy in the USA very expensive compared to inexpensive energy in China. So manufacturing centers are shut down in the USA, and reopened where energy is less expensive.... China. And the Biden admin has promised to make energy even more expensive to force people to use less. And that means even more manufacturing moved to China, and that means even more coal fired power plants built there. While most other nations try to make goals set by the Paris agreement, China's only state goal was to TRY to stop increasing CO2 3emissions by 2030. And, so energy is becoming more expensive in the 'west' even as they use less and pollute less. China only increases their emissions. And they laugh at us. All the way to the bank, they laugh at us.
Are you sure you have all of your information correct with numerous unbiased honest sources?
Corporations laugh their way back from the bank while you blame Biden and immigrants and whoever-else. Our oil pumping rate in AMERICA is barely down even compared to the Trump years. You think Trump loved oil? And this is, for whatever reason, in 'thousands of barrels of oil' as drawn from US reserves-and-sources. And, darn you, I want you to know that I am /trying/ to help...and that means 'doing math at 4am' so I don't forget to do it later..!
2016: 104,901
2017: 112,657
2018: 130550
2019: 148500
2020: 137300 As a reminder, "Something Happened" in 2020-2023 that cut into our gas use in random amounts...
And now...not that it's huge, but it's a clue that you're blaming the wrong guys while the corporations laugh the whole way on the way to buy another superyacht for themselves to use on only-Tuesday because when you're this rich, why not?!
2021: 133500 So we're /slightly/ down from 2020's 137300, -3800 to be as exact as I can be. So if Biden isn't ruining our energy prices, then who is..?
( Also, the pumping data I found offhand only goes to Feb 2022, so that doesn't help 2022 numbers yet. That won't change anything anyway because...)
Did you know that ExxonMobil and BP and Shell have filed /record/ profits again this quarter right? From a news article I found by searching for 'Shell profit q1 2023', though the quote I was thinking of was actually for Shell's record-setting adjusted full-year-2022 income of 39.9 billion. That is PROFIT for *2022*. They were so profitable they have just announced, and I quote, "...a $4 billion share buyback program, which is expected to be completed by its first-quarter 2023 results, and a 15% dividend per share increase for the fourth quarter."
In a search for "Exxonmobil record profit since", this is my second result. Quoting directly from the article: "ExxonMobil raked in $55.7 billion in annual profits, shattering a 2008 record of $45 billion and setting a new goalpost for American and European fossil fuel companies.
Exxon CEO Darren Woods said the stellar annual profits came on the back of “a favorable market”-a combination of recovery in activity after covid and prices skyrocketing since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022-but credited the firm with taking advantage of the undersupplied market. “We leaned in when others leaned out,” he said.
While Woods celebrated the result, the White House called it “outrageous.” The Biden administration has been calling on oil companies, which receive hundreds of billions of dollars in public subsidies, to reinvest their profits to increase oil production to alleviate supply constraints following Russia’s war in Ukraine and lower energy prices."
So there's Exxonmobil, profitable year after year since their 1999 merger. The first year they lost money since then was 2020...the 'rona finally bit them, for a $22 bn loss. You know...not even half of the profit from this ONE year.
So how about an oil refinery company? Surely they must be hurting, right? Yeeeeano.
"...while refiner ConocoPhillips doubled its profits to $18.7 billion, the highest in the 10 years since it spun off its refining business." (from another article, I can't keep up with all of the keywords-used, you can figure out how to google this stuff if you want to bother to. Please do bother to...this nation needs our citizens sensible, but 'rage baiting without thought' is all the rage at the moment.
Know how California's electric is super-expensive and very-unreliable...except at 'setting fires' which it's very good at? That's because the State has a program that pays PG&E extra bonuses to lay new lines but not REPLACE or upgrade current ones. The old gets older, because it's not profitable enough for them to bother. Upgrading all those dangerous, past-their-lifetime power towers would cost a lot, so their lobbyists keep breaking any attempts to change those laws by screaming, "They're gonna raise your taxes again!" which isn't even true, and is often utterly unrelated to the issue at hand, but then The Hate Horde comes out of everywhere DEMANDING that they keep these broken laws that leave PG&E not-fixing any of their stuff until it LITERALLY breaks and falls down because guess what? That's "new lines" at that point and becomes more profitable! If they pretend to be REALLY busy laying new line elsewhere already in the state they can even get paid /premium/ rates to go do the repairs first instead of finishing wiring a second line into a richer area somewhere. They get to cause, ignore, and then eventually get PAID for fixing the things they should have fixed all along. Since suing them into the ground would wreak havoc with the grid's ownership, they have to grant immunity to the power company in almost all cases. I think MAYBE the Camp fire got around that somehow. I don't recall how. PG&E is rarely successfully sued.
But sure, go on hating Biden and Russians and Mexicans and "Radical Leftist Liberal Communist Redneck-hating Democrats" or whatever the banner-hateline is for then nowadays...and whoever or whatever else you want to hate aside from our actual problem...but our NATION'S enemy of dire threat right now are *Corporations*, on almost all fronts.
Or issue with energy costs is that we privatized the grids and didn't do it sensibly. We're kinda in the '90's from air travel', remember those great days, when it seemed like a jet went down about every week or two? We had to wreck the FAA and change even their base charter to make it more citizen-protective and make it actually WORK. The FAA has issues even now, no argument there, but not '90's levels of dysfunction'. That's where our grids and our refineries/oil suppliers are...getting profit at all costs, cutting every corner they can, and just bailing out of the industry if they get caught doing anything TOO egregious. We like to pretend that changing the CEO or CFO magically rebuilds a company somehow...but it doesn't. They make mouth-noises about fixing things, and then the Administration changes before they get that far, then people forget, then...oh hey, more record profits!
Think about how insane that is...Exxon only lost money on its merger-from-hell in 1999, and again in 2020 from the coronavirus lockdowns. That's, what, *88* quarters of record profit after record profit? Something like that, plus-or-minus a handful.
But the big problem is, the REAL issue requires you to look, read, understand...how many people who click this Reply and see its size will even read more than one line, maybe one paragraph?! But, darn it, I have to try.
Uhh, China is trashed, both from covid (>20 MILLION dead so far) & their population now has largest number of retired folks & least number of workers entering work force in the world with Russia 2nd. Add financial disasters that have crippled China & we got nothing...no manufacturing, no agriculture, no shipping. Extensive flooding north wiped out agriculture, drought in south produced NO SAFE WATER for millions & loss of shipping routes. "China" won't exist in near future. Manufacturing companies closed & more closing & moving out of China. I won't even mention collapse of real-estate with corruption & tofu building practices that was so much of their financial might.
So we should do nothing?
@@riandraegon556 Exactly WHAT would you have us do?
8:14 kids are like parrots, watch what you say around them man 😂
not realy looting if they just taking food