National Geographic: Tsunami - Killer Wave Page #2

Synopsis: The documentary explores the causes of tsunami waves, one of nature's most powerful and destructive forces. Survivors and scientists tell gripping tales of past tsunami disasters in Hawaii, Japan, and the Pacific Northwest.
Genre: Documentary
 
IMDB:
6.4
Year:
2005
52 min
343 Views


in the ocean struggling,

dogs trying to swim ashore.

We saw that.

But you couldn't do anything

about it.

The force of the water was so great,

you couldn't venture into it.

You had no chance.

You felt very helpless and wondered

was there anybody out there

that you knew.

One photographer watches in horror

as a wave overtakes a dock worker

trapped on a pier.

In the next frame,

taken after the wave has passed,

the worker is nowhere to be seen...

swept away like so many others.

I had gotten up,

gone downstairs to wash up...

Larry Nakagawa was 14 when the wave

struck his home in Hilo.

...and as I was washing my face

and brushing my teeth,

I heard this strange sound of gravel

being thrown on the pavement.

So my brother came out and said

"It looks like

we are having a tidal wave.

We better get on the tree."

So he hoisted me up

and then my father was hoisted.

He and my father

were on the same branch and,

because of the way the branch was,

he had to hold my father around,

to grab hold of the trunk.

And I think that when the wave came,

he felt that

if he hung onto my father...

the way...

the force of the wave

would push him,

and if he hung on,

he would take my father in.

So he let go

and he went with the wave.

It was strict horror

to go into the mortuaries.

When they found somebody,

identified somebody

all the bodies were covered

they put a tag on a toe.

But they were covered

with a blanket.

And when you pulled back the blanket

to see if you recognized them,

the horror on their death...

was terrible... when they died.

They were frightened.

Eyes open, mouth agape.

And just a terror looked-face

on them.

It was very unpleasant to look at.

Twenty-five miles northwest of Hilo,

the little peninsula

called Laupahoehoe

lies exposed to the full fury

of the tsunami.

Students have just arrived

in the Laupahoehoe schoolyard

and are waiting for classes

to start.

Among them are Bunji Fujimoto

and his two brothers.

That day remains vivid

in Bunji's memory.

I could see a wall of water

coming in from out in the ocean.

It compared to filling up

a cup of coffee.

You just keep pouring

and once it hits the brim,

it spills over,

and that's what happened back here,

up on the wall.

It didn't stop with the wall.

It just came over, spilled over.

And we could see we were in trouble.

We had to run. We started running.

When the water started coming over,

we started running up

to higher ground to my left,

where the school building was.

Fortunately, we made it in time.

A bunch of the other children

didn't make it,

the other students,

mostly students in this area.

My brother was down here

and we never found him.

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