Japan hit by 8.9 quake and following tsunami

[Admiral Yi]

That poster is kind of retarded.

[Mr.Penguin]

Dont you just love Americans, the world would be so boring with them...

[grumbler]

Time lapse video of the tsunami effects in Morro Bay, California yesterday, where my aunt and uncle live.

http://www.youtube.com/v/RVD2nDWVjiA&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3

Wow, that might have been one of the most uninteresting videos I've ever seen.

After several minutes of slow-mo scanning of a crowd of uninteresting people, I moved on.  tl;dw

[grumbler]

(snip)

Dont you just love Americans, the world would be so boring with them...

  Syt isn't American.

[Mr.Penguin]

  Syt isn't American.

Well, may not be Syt I am referring too, ya know...

[Josquius]

Time lapse video of the tsunami effects in Morro Bay, California yesterday, where my aunt and uncle live.

http://www.youtube.com/v/RVD2nDWVjiA&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3

Took me a while to realise anything at all was happening there

[Caliga]

I tried to watch it too but there's some annoying as fuck Dave Matthews-sounding song overlaid on top of it and I had to close the window.

My biggest pet peeve with YouTube videos is that people feel the need to give every stupid video a 'soundtrack', especially  I'm too lazy to turn the volume off.

[garbon]

  Syt isn't American.

Well, may not be Syt I am referring too, ya know...

He didn't have much to work with, considering your brain dead post.

[Caliga]

World ending, film at 11.

83 rescued after floating Jeff Ruby restaurant breaks loose near Cincinnati

22 minutes ago

Firefighters rigged a precarious gangplank of ladders and ropes and safely rescued 83 people, including former Cincinnati Bengals star Cris Collinsworth, from a floating restaurant that broke free from a pier on the flooded Ohio River, authorities say.

83 rescued from Ky. eatery that floated downstream
By DAN SEWELL, Associated Press – Sat Mar 12, 7:52 pm ET

COVINGTON, Ky. – Kathy Kinane and her husband walked into the upscale Waterfront restaurant wearing snorkeling gear, a joking reference to the recent rain and rising water levels outside the eatery housed on a barge.

They almost needed it. The Kinanes and 81 others found themselves floating downstream on the Ohio River during the dinner rush Friday night when the restaurant broke from its moorings. All had to be rescued one by one with a makeshift gangplank of ladders and ropes after the boat came to rest against a bridge about 100 feet downriver.

"We were joking about the river," Kathy Kinane told The Associated Press on Saturday morning. "Well, the joke's on us now."

Officials said the hours-long rescue was orderly and calm. Women were rescued first, then the men. One patron would climb down the gangplank wearing a life jacket, which would then be sent back up for the next person. Kathy Kinane said she had to take off her heels to make her way down. Among those rescued was former Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Cris Collinsworth, Covington fire Capt. Chris Kiely said.

Collinsworth, a pro football commentator for NBC, has long been associated with Waterfront owner and restaurateur Jeff Ruby. On the waterfront's menu for $40 is the "Steak Collinsworth," along with other steaks and high-end entrees including lobster, sea bass and tuna. The restaurant is one of several on the river in Covington, just across from Cincinnati.

Kinane and her husband, Bill — frequent patrons of the Waterfront — had arrived around 7:30 p.m. and listened to music for a while before joining another couple at a table for dinner. They were finishing up around 10:15 when they felt an ominous bump. Kinane said her husband peered out the window and saw that the barge was moving with the fast-paced current. They had eaten there before with the water levels rising, but the boat had always remained in place.

"That was not a good thing," she said. "We said, 'Let's get up and leave.'"

However, they found a crowd near the exit. The walkway ramp had broken loose from shore, and the patrons had no way of getting off the barge. TV footage showed diners pacing aboard the boat as firefighters put together the makeshift bridge above the water, which was swirling with broken tree limbs and other debris.

Kiely said several patrons had used cell phones to call for help. The power never went out, and tugboats and emergency crews arrived quickly, Kinane said.

The barge started moving when a main cable came loose, leaving the remaining cables to handle more pressure than they could withstand, said Covington Fire Chief Chuck Norris.

The barge came to rest against a bridge that spans the river, though the U.S. Coast Guard and other workers were still working Saturday to keep the boat secure until it could be towed back to its proper place. The Coast Guard and other boats worked to keep the restaurant in place until it could be moved — and it was unclear when that would happen, said U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Rob Reinhart. The river was already at least 3 feet above flood stage, according to the National Weather Service.

Traffic flowed normally across the bridge, and trains moved on an adjacent track uninterrupted.

"If the bridge wasn't there it could have traveled down the river quite a ways," said Rob Carlisle, co-owner of C&B Marine of Covington, which had dispatched a towboat to help secure the restaurant's front end.

The barge had come to a halt by the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge, one of several linking Cincinnati with northern Kentucky. Reinhart said the restaurant likely would be heavily damaged if it broke free again because the top of the barge stands higher than the bottom of the bridge. He said it would have been up to local authorities to order restaurants to close because of the high river levels, though it could not immediately be determined who would be responsible for that decision.

Calls by the AP to restaurateur Jeff Ruby were not returned Saturday. He owns or operates several restaurants in Cincinnati and surrounding areas.

!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[The Brain]

 

[grumbler]

  Syt isn't American.

Well, may not be Syt I am referring too, ya know...

Oh.  Wonder why you would quote Syt before making your comment, then? 

Accidents will happen, I suppose, and, if you didn't fuck up all the time, who would read your posts? 

[MadImmortalMan]

!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

I bet it was the Kentucky Navy Submarine Force.

[Josquius]

No word from a friend of mine from Sendai.
Hope it turns out she's just got more important things on her mind than checking facebook...

[Jacob]

I hope she's okay too Tyr. Sendai was not a good place to be

[Darth Wagtaros]

There are some great comments out there. I liked the one that said the Japanese deserved this and more because they eat dolphins and rape the sea.