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You see this one little minivan. you could see the windshield wiper in the back and it just gelled in me. and i realized, my goodness, there's someone in that vehicle. there's a mother maybe with her kids in the back seat trying to dodge this disastrous wave and they didn't make it. as a father and as a husband, that moment became very real. >> here a community looks on as entire neighborhoods are washed away. >> we see this little hamlet and we see this wave move in. and then we see the buildings just disappear like alka-seltzer
Entire neighborhoods are washed away. >> we see this little hamlet, and we see this wave move in. and then we see the buildings just disappear like alka-seltzer tablets in water. right now, reality is setting in unfortunately for these people. >> they are dumbfounded, except for the screaming. lost to know how to feel. there's nothing that can be done. >> you see people running. here is a person running as fast as they can. that individual is a few hundred feet away from the tsunami, and this person here i hope, i would like to think that individual is the luckiest person in japan,
Long, whereas the one in the sumatran earthquake was about a thousand miles long so much more water was displaced in sum ma tra and therefore went out. we also seem to have been lucky to some extent. you can see that as it travels out across the ocean you get sort of little, you know, focusing areas that are stronger than some others and none of those seem to have really come in at the more distant sites. but, of course, nobody in chile would consider themselves lucky. it was a very damaging tsunami there. >> now, watching that wave move across that screen, i now finally understand why i was r...
Sumatran earthquake was about a thousand miles long so much more water was displaced and therefore went out. we also seem to have been lucky to some extent. you can see that as it travels out across the ocean you get sort of little, you know, focusing areas that are stronger than some others and none of those seem to have really come in at the more distant sites. but, of course, nobody in chile would consider themselves lucky. it was a very damaging tsunami there. >> now, watching that wave move across that screen, i now finally understand why i was required to have tsunami insurance on my hou...