Thursday, March 31, 2011

1474 - Tsunami

There was some more news on the Japanese tsunami yesterday. They said the defenses were over topped because the land where the walls sat fell 3 feet. So the 30 foot defense walls were only 27 feet high all of a sudden. Oops.



Here's a picture of the first wave coming into shore.



For some aerial before and after shots from google the New York Times has some interactive pictures. When all of them load there will be a little blue bar in the middle of the picture. You can slide the blue bar back and forth to see the before and after pictures. Or you can just click anywhere on a picture and the bar will go to where you clicked. Look at these soon. No telling how long they will be accessible.

AND..... and? AAAAANNNNNNDDDDD..... Here's a link to the Nova program on the tsunami that showed last night. (As of last night all it would do is show a preview. Maybe it's working now. Maybe not.)

NOVA TSUNAMI LINK

It's too bad the US can't blame this on a bad country and attack them to fix the problem. You know if this happened to China somebody would have been executed by now.

 

5 comments:

Amanda said...

Yes, they had tsunami related programs here a couple of nights ago too. Sad sad ones about how an entire school of children were swept away leaving parents with no kids in that town. And then, in other places, kids with no parents.

Jay said...

I thought the whole thing happened because God is warning Japan to turn to Christianity.

Mike said...

A - If 10 people would have been killed by terrorists there would have been a world outcry. 10,000 people killed by nature is just a statistic.

J - I really surprised we haven't heard that yet.

lacochran's evil twin said...

Don't knock China--we may need them to bail us out, financially.

Mike said...

LEW - Shhhhhhhhhh.....