03-11-2011, 11:59 AM
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#141
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: DeWinton, AB
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While i hate what is going on and wish everyone overseas the best, the technology that we use to capture the images and video is insane, CCTV's, helicopters, awesome photography. It brings the situation so much closer to home when you can see people getting swept away.
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03-11-2011, 12:02 PM
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#142
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary
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Yikes, those are some unreal images and videos. The tsunami/flood was like a black wave of death swallowing up everything in it's path.
A big tragedy for sure, but full credits go out to the Japanese and their infrastructure. If that earthquake happened in China or India, you know there would have been tens of thousands of people killed.
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03-11-2011, 12:06 PM
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#143
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: DeWinton, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Yen Man
Yikes, those are some unreal images and videos. The tsunami/flood was like a black wave of death swallowing up everything in it's path.
A big tragedy for sure, but full credits go out to the Japanese and their infrastructure. If that earthquake happened in China or India, you know there would have been tens of thousands of people killed.
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I cant imagine something like this happening to China... they would be soooo screwed.
Japan is a tech and engineering marvel, i bet they rebuild the ruined parts so quickly.
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03-11-2011, 12:07 PM
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#144
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Calgary
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The nuclear power reactor concerns me, I don't want another Chernobyl
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03-11-2011, 12:08 PM
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#145
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One of the Nine
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8.9 Magnitude. Imagine the death toll if this happened anywhere else but Japan. If this hit India or something? It'd already be in the hundreds of thousands.
Edit* Way to take the words out of my mouth, Yen Man.
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03-11-2011, 12:09 PM
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#146
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Yen Man
Yikes, those are some unreal images and videos. The tsunami/flood was like a black wave of death swallowing up everything in it's path.
A big tragedy for sure, but full credits go out to the Japanese and their infrastructure. If that earthquake happened in China or India, you know there would have been tens of thousands of people killed.
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I think there still might be. The country wide alert system for Japan gives people about a minute before it actually hits.
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03-11-2011, 12:09 PM
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#147
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Commie Referee
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Small town, B.C.
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[1:42 p.m. ET, 3:42 a.m. Tokyo] Using Air Force planes, the U.S. government has sent over coolant for the Fukushima nuclear plant, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday. Japan's officials say a small radiation leak could occur at the plant after Friday's earthquake and tsunami.
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http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/11...hquake/?hpt=T1
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03-11-2011, 12:11 PM
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#148
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Took an arrow to the knee
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Toronto
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The death toll isn't known, so it could still be many thousands.
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03-11-2011, 12:20 PM
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#149
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First Line Centre
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those Libyian rebels are all toast now!!!
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03-11-2011, 12:34 PM
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#150
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CP Pontiff
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: A pasture out by Millarville
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Had an adventurous night on the Big Island of Hawaii. We evacuated ourselves to higher ground and, with a crowd of parked cars in pitch black, waited for a tsunami to dramatically snuff the coastal lights below us at 3:30 am local time.
Never happened although parts of Kona just down the coast were run over. Slept in the car until dawn and then did some early morning exploring up near parker ranch until hearing we could return.
Although we evacuated ourselves, the entire hotel population was eventually removed and taken away in buses.
Can't go in the water yet but things are settling down.
Fun night actually.
Cowperson
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03-11-2011, 12:47 PM
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#151
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First Line Centre
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Another earthquake. 6.6 on the Richter scale just off the coast of Japan near Nagano and Niigata....March 19 and the Super Moon approaching...THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!!!!!!
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03-11-2011, 12:52 PM
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#152
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Wow
A lot of people are lucky the shockwaves and Tsunami almost went perfectly out into the middle of the Pacific ocean instead of angled more south.
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03-11-2011, 01:01 PM
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#153
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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There was a report on one of the stations that the troubled reactor is going to do a controlled venting of radioactive gas/materials in order to try and buy more time to get it cooled down.
Wouldn't want to be anywhere near that idea.
Sun will be up in Japan in an hour or so....there are going to be some really grim images still to come.
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03-11-2011, 01:02 PM
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#154
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Norm!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowperson
Had an adventurous night on the Big Island of Hawaii. We evacuated ourselves to higher ground and, with a crowd of parked cars in pitch black, waited for a tsunami to dramatically snuff the coastal lights below us at 3:30 am local time.
Never happened although parts of Kona just down the coast were run over. Slept in the car until dawn and then did some early morning exploring up near parker ranch until hearing we could return.
Although we evacuated ourselves, the entire hotel population was eventually removed and taken away in buses.
Can't go in the water yet but things are settling down.
Fun night actually.
Cowperson
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Glad to see that you came out of it dry Cow. Did you get pictures 
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03-11-2011, 01:02 PM
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#155
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Norm!
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Originally Posted by transplant99
There was a report on one of the stations that the troubled reactor is going to do a controlled venting of radioactive gas/materials in order to try and buy more time to get it cooled down.
Wouldn't want to be anywhere near that idea.
Sun will be up in Japan in an hour or so....there are going to be some really grim images still to come.
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Its probably a fairly small amount of gas and materials, I think most reactors do this kind of venting once in a while.
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03-11-2011, 01:08 PM
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#156
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2006
Location: @HOOT250
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They just reported another 6.9 but this time from mid-Japan around Nagano.
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03-11-2011, 01:27 PM
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#157
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Vernon, BC
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Amazing seeing the tsunami wave roll inland and people driving on the highway. I wonder what it's like trying to drive away from that. I think the death toll will climb sharply, starting today, looking at the images and just the shear size of the swell I'm sure many people got trapped by the wave.
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03-11-2011, 01:29 PM
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#158
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: YYC
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03-11-2011, 01:33 PM
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#159
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Vancouver
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Crazy footage. Even in a developed country, earthquakes cause chaos and damage. Makes me wonder what will happen when Vancouver gets theirs.
Good thing I'm moving back to Calgary soon!
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03-11-2011, 01:39 PM
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#160
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Igottago
Crazy footage. Even in a developed country, earthquakes cause chaos and damage. Makes me wonder what will happen when Vancouver gets theirs.
Good thing I'm moving back to Calgary soon!
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I hear the US west coast (Cali specifically) is overdue for a huge quake too? Given that two large quakes happen in a month and several major ones over the last decade I'm glad I live in Calgary for sure.
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