You can ignore the below. I need to process the last video, as I remember the day clearly. I was inland enough to be safe, but I don't think I'll ever be over what I felt and saw in the event. The March 11, 2011 video horrifies me. The way the atmosphere of the bystanders-turned-refugees changes in just a few moments... "Wow! Amazing! That's crazy!" A little unease. Nervous laughter. Excitement. "Nonono a boat just came loose! That's gonna be expensive for someone" "Oh. Oh no. It just broke the seawall on the other side of town! There might be people over there!" ... "Wait. That wave is coming for us." Screaming begins, yelling to people below to run, hurry hurry." To a trained eye, that screaming would have started several minutes if not hours ago. We had no idea. Breaches the seawall directly in front of them. The screaming and denial begins in earnest. Every car alarm in town screams along as they get swept away. "What? What is this? What's going on? This is going to change our lives isn't it" The humans are quiet for a time, except for the occasional whispered "what..." ... Eventually even the city's sirens go quiet. But... "Why?" soon becomes evident. All but the luckiest of buildings begin to wash away, rebar and concrete shattering. Another round of screaming. "We may die." ... Finally the valley fills and the water begins to recede. "We survived..." Then the man holding his camera spots it. Another wave is coming. Footage ends
When everything settled down for real, I guess you could say there was silt left. Just not your home.
Aww but don't be so pessimistic Skirts. I don't see any rubble here. I see freshly leveled ground.
Is that an ever-loving Doug reference?
But don't hate her when she gets up to leave... Hope you're doing well, Skirts.
I can't hug you for real, but let's pretend we did because we all really need one right now.
I'm mostly stumped. Popular-popular-popular-popular-tragedy?
You can ignore the below. I need to process the last video, as I remember the day clearly. I was inland enough to be safe, but I don't think I'll ever be over what I felt and saw in the event.
The March 11, 2011 video horrifies me. The way the atmosphere of the bystanders-turned-refugees changes in just a few moments...
"Wow! Amazing! That's crazy!" A little unease. Nervous laughter. Excitement.
"Nonono a boat just came loose! That's gonna be expensive for someone"
"Oh. Oh no. It just broke the seawall on the other side of town! There might be people over there!"
...
"Wait. That wave is coming for us." Screaming begins, yelling to people below to run, hurry hurry." To a trained eye, that screaming would have started several minutes if not hours ago. We had no idea.
Breaches the seawall directly in front of them. The screaming and denial begins in earnest.
Every car alarm in town screams along as they get swept away.
"What? What is this? What's going on? This is going to change our lives isn't it"
The humans are quiet for a time, except for the occasional whispered "what..."
...
Eventually even the city's sirens go quiet. But...
"Why?" soon becomes evident. All but the luckiest of buildings begin to wash away, rebar and concrete shattering.
Another round of screaming. "We may die."
...
Finally the valley fills and the water begins to recede. "We survived..."
Then the man holding his camera spots it. Another wave is coming.
Footage ends
When everything settled down for real, I guess you could say there was silt left. Just not your home.
Aww but don't be so pessimistic Skirts. I don't see any rubble here. I see freshly leveled ground.
What beautiful memories.
My life sucked then, but that's neither here nor there. Pony was great.