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BigmanPigman

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2. I must have seen over 30 videos of the tsunami

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Wed Mar 11, 2026, 11:07 AM

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hitting various areas of Japan. The geography of the landscape really directed where the water would go, sometimes making it into a whirlpool in a bay. Places like that had 100' waves. In that swiftly moving water is concrete, metal, wood, etc. and it hits you hard. It's really bad when the water comes in but also when it goes out again and there are multiple sets of these waves.

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Anniversary of the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. [View all] betsuni Yesterday OP

K&R brer cat Yesterday #1

I must have seen over 30 videos of the tsunami BigmanPigman Yesterday #2

Every year I start watching a few but then can't stop, it's horrible and fascinating. betsuni Yesterday #5

I watch videos of the Boxing Day Tsunami BigmanPigman Yesterday #8

And the journalist whose book I quoted in the OP said that afterwards when people betsuni 23 hrs ago #9

Yup, just one cubic meter of water weighs one metric ton Wednesdays Yesterday #6

Woah! I remember those vids! electric_blue68 Yesterday #3

DURec leftstreet Yesterday #4

Well if you follow this event as closely as I have, one will notice... NNadir Yesterday #7