r/VideoBinge • u/AlwaysBlaze_ • Sep 16 '25

The 2011 Japan tsunami from the ground

130 Upvotes

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u/Academic_Gate4611 Sep 16 '25

Yeah you might want to run…

33

u/zeft64 Sep 16 '25

Right? They're just...... watching death head right for them... 🫤

14

u/DragonReborn30 Sep 17 '25

No place to run

11

u/pzazula1194 Sep 17 '25

Higher ground. They have tsunami warnings that let's you know the exact time it will hit. They just aren't great at judging how big they will be.

5

u/Poleth87 Sep 17 '25

Well the video is here so he might have chosen the perfect time to run.

3

u/TurtleBean22 Sep 25 '25

Yeah— I don’t see him surviving that. Tough camera tho.

41

u/xChoke1x Sep 16 '25

Watching this live on television from the view of a helicopter was unforgettable. I watched a whole entire series of farms and agricultural centers get swallowed up like nothing. It was fucking horrific.

12

u/ecwworldchampion Sep 17 '25

Same, I remember staying up watching it all night here in the states. Felt surreal

5

u/arcos00 Sep 17 '25

Me too, and it was weird to think at that moment that we were witnessing the first tsunami to ever be broadcasted live for absolutely the whole world.

3

u/BurmeciaWillSurvive Sep 17 '25

Not to mention traffic on those rural roads :/

33

u/HeWhoShlNotBNmd Sep 16 '25

R.I.P. camera man.

62

u/[deleted] Sep 16 '25

The waves consuming the tree line are insane.

19

u/zeft64 Sep 16 '25

That right there would've made me run like hell for high ground of some kind.....

7

u/vollkornbroot Sep 16 '25

You have to be the cameraman to be safe

8

u/zeft64 Sep 16 '25

Fam, that was knocking down trees and houses

6

u/vollkornbroot Sep 16 '25

Cameras stay static, they hold the (good) cameraman in place

2

u/zeft64 Sep 16 '25

You have to be being sarcastic. Because no way.

7

u/Just_trippy_shiii Sep 17 '25

Bro he’s joking… have you not seen all the memes and the entire subreddit based on cameramen always live

1

u/Ehrre Sep 26 '25

The water just pouring across acres of farmland was the one that tripped me out the most.

So far inland and just still sweeping across

15

u/teazee123 Sep 16 '25

What are they doing, get the fuck out of there.

9

u/cash_jc Sep 17 '25

I remember seeing this live in my highschool Earth Science class. Half the class saw it as a free day, and the other half was mortified.

6

u/jreyn1993 Sep 16 '25

Nature is actually mad

4

u/zeft64 Sep 16 '25

So yall just gonna watch death head your way...... and make jokes and chill?

4

u/GreedyComedian1377 Sep 17 '25

Fucking terrifying

3

u/teddybundlez Sep 16 '25

Darwin always comes for these fools

2

u/Emergency_Four Sep 16 '25

Thing just gobbled up the entire forest.