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quequotion t1_j750v6a wrote

There's a lot of footage from that day that will probably never air again.

Even in this, you may notice a scene or two where a camera pans around and you wonder, "Where did everyone go just now?"

Into the water. They're gone.

On the day it was much worse. Many times a helicopter was filming people running, or trying to drive away, only to rotate just enough to show the road they were on wouldn't take them out of the path of the tsunami. Then it would pan all the way around, showing some other part of the destruction, and when it came back the whole road was gone under the water.

I remember one heartbreaking scene where a guy hopped on his scooter and made a bee-line away from the wave, stopping to try to warn people crossing the road he was on that they were doomed. A few seconds later there was nothing but black water and wreckage where all of them had been.

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