What would you do? Tsunami video.

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What would you do? Tsunami video.

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I’d like to see what you guys can dissect from this video of the Japan Tsunami, what lessons are learned here and what would you have done in this situation.


What is some of the gear that would have been optimal to have in this situation? What skill sets would have been useful here? ( I can think of proper knot making, basic swimming experience)
 
This video shows that people, sometimes need other people..there are no skills here, just good, courageous, people helping each other. 14,000 others didn't get to help.
yes, swimming might help, but I dont know how many here have tried to swim in the winter..I did, and it was the closest to death I have ever been other then getting electrocuted.
No amount of gear can help you out of cold water, short of a cold weather scuba suit...which I dont have in my BOB.
What I have learned out of all the videos I have seen, is that people are willing to risk their lives to save each other, no matter how often I like to feel that "people suck"...stuff like this happens, and shows me that good exists..and THAT is good.
Maybe we will make it as a species, maybe not...but it won't be for lack of trying. JMHO.
 
With all the debris and sheer force of the waves not even Michael Phelps would of been able to survive if caught in the tsunami. I'm not sure how much advance warning there was but survival instincts and logic would tell me to head to high ground - not much skill involved in that. I think back to the 2004 tsunami in Thailand and was shocked how people who were on the beach just stood there and watched as the ocean receded by the time they realized the wave coming in it was too late.
 
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From what I can see, it does show how as a society we help one another out, something that you don’t see that much, only when stuff like this happens.
I wonder if the flash lights you see that are being used at the end, wear part of some type of earthquake survival kit. And the instinct that kicks in at that moment, that they know something is coming.

Id imagine it is at does times when you’re the one whit a knife and a flashlight in your pocket that you realize what all that stuff is for, and how it can save your life or that of someone in trouble.
 
With such an unstoppable force of nature such as that, the only way you can be assured that you survive is to NOT live near the coastal areas.
 
Edwood7 said:
What is some of the gear that would have been optimal to have in this situation? What skill sets would have been useful here? ( I can think of proper knot making, basic swimming experience)
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Lots of stuff, but I don't EDC hundreds of feet worth of rope, webbing, and other rock climbing gear, or a PFD, or the tool kit with real prybars, so having the gear would be a fantasy unless some of it happened to be in my truck. Those things could really simplify rescues, and make performing them safe.
Normally, I'd probably have a couple of knives and flashlights, a tire iron, a tow strap, some tie-down straps and cord IF I thought to grab all of that when going EVA.
I think the people in the video showed quick thinking, good judgment, and above all, were blessed to be in the right place at the right time, where they could get to shelter.
 
Moral of the story: if the ground starts shaking and you're anywhere near the shoreline, head for high ground immediately. Don't just stand around videoing the big giant wave coming at you.
 
There are one issues that ain't be address.

#1 false flag.

In the past months there have been too mamy disclosed false information on the Japanese State television screen NHK, concerning tnunami; which led the common man to think to be safe!

A note here...

Katrina... forecasters were predicting 20 to 22 feet of surge, with a sligth chance of 25 feet....
In reality, Katrina's surge was at its greatest reached a heght of 35 feet.
 
Pray. Cross my fingers. Hold my breath. Nothing else, as said by most of the others, will help. Knot tying? To what? The car that runs you down, Run? Not that fast. It's like trying to survive a tornado with nowhere for shelter.
 
get a knife with a glass breaker and a whistle. wear good hiking/running shoes and all survivors will be sponsored by Nike
 
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Pray. Cross my fingers. Hold my breath. Nothing else, as said by most of the others, will help. Knot tying? To what? The car that runs you down, Run? Not that fast. It's like trying to survive a tornado with nowhere for shelter.
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Knot tying like other skill sets is something that would of help in the rescuing of the people trapped in on top of the cars. Or a hundred other possible uses besides tying yourself to a car. Not everything you learn or know is intended to save yourself. But keeping yourself safe so that you can help someone else when the time comes that is the point.
 
Until this time I thought tsunami is nothing more than relatively massive water.

Now I recognized it is something more than water, filled with cars, houses, sometimes even fire, in a word everything.
 
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