Tsunami at Ryoishi port, near Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture clancy688 2012-03-13 | The 311 tsunami Ryoishi, a little fishing village a few kilometres north of Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Notes:The village wasn't protected by the Kamaishi breakwater as Kamaishi itself was, so the waves turned out much bigger - up to 19.5 metres. You don't see an actual wave devastating Ryoishi, but rather a fast rising tide. At 4:14 you can see this "tide" rising at the seawall. This seawall is nine metres high, and it doesn't take the tsunami more than a minute to rise from nearly zero to those nine metres. And that's only the first wave. At 07:15 you can see the second wave approaching, while the water left over from the first one is still nine metres high. Two minutes later, the water level has doubled. And from then on it's only mayhem... At 29:00 you can see the remains of the nine metre high seawall - the second wave of the tsunami toppled and tore it apart.
Sakurajima Eruption 15.10.2019 clancy688 2019-10-15 | Sakurajima near Kagoshima (Japan) having an eruption.
World of Warships Replay - British TX cruiser Minotaur sacrifices herself to let her team win clancy688 2017-02-19 | *Very* close match in my Minotaur. After 20 minutes, we won by points 855:823, with our sole surviving ship down to 1200 HP and another salvo already flying in! I died earlier when torping a Yamato in a suicide run which absolutely *had* to die, or we would have lost the C cap and then probably the game. 6 Kills, 220k dmg, Confederate, High Caliber, Kraken, Fleshwound. Replay: wowreplays.com/Replay/30187-clancy774-Minotaur-HotspotAttention: I used the free camera during the replay, so this is *not* how I aimed during the actual game. I got several complaints about me zooming too much (yeah yeah...), so I recorded it with the free camera. ^^
Shinkansen 500 Type EVA leaving Shin-Kobe station for Nishi-Akashi clancy688 2017-02-19 | Hey,just an upload for /r/trains. :DI visited Japan last September, and during our rides with the Shinkansen we noticed "something purple" flying by on two occasions. In Himeji we noticed then a large poster about this train, and being a long-time anime fan I decided to look up the timetable of this train and intercept it. We did this in Shin-Kobe, then. :)This is a Type 500 Shinkansen which is painted in the livery of EVA Shogoki, a giant robot from the famous anime (movie) series Neon Genesis Evangelion. More info: http://www.500type-eva.jp/en
Montana doing the impossible clancy688 2016-05-31 | Montana citadeling Yamato through the front. Should be impossible. :D
Des Moines - Citadel World Record (Not anymore...) clancy688 2016-05-13 | Des Moines doing what she is best in - absolutely wrecking enemies in knife fighting range, even battleships. 29 citadels in 2 minutes, 32 citadels overall. I'm pretty sure that's the record... :DEdit, nope, it isn't, Flamu got 4 more in an Atlanta... ^^ youtube.com/watch?v=CaTz4VKCols
How to delete a Moskva and escorts in a Hindenburg clancy688 2016-04-11 | Well... ...that was kinda suicidal. But fun. This is way you absolutely never ever want to have a Hindenburg appear in your flank. It doesn't matter if you're DD, CA or BB, you're absolutely going to get wrecked. :))))It's a pity those torps never reached their target. And I only noticed the Mogami in the background during the replay, if I'd noticed her ingame, my last salvo would have been on her and not on the Amagi. Oh, and about my jittering aim: This is a replay, and replays are kinda bugged for me... what you see me aiming at here is not what I was aiming at during the actual match. ^^
WoWs - YOLOing to Rank 1 clancy688 2016-02-01 | Here is my final action in World of Warships, Ranked Season 3. :)This match was won by my team after I'd died, and I progressed to rank 1. I'd like to thank everybody in my team who made this possible, after I kinda YOLOd myself to death. Thank you guys! (open for more text)In order to preempt derisive comments - my mistakes in this particular action have been manifold, and I tried to make the best out of the shitty situation I brought myself into. So here's a lengthy list of what I did wrong: - First I drove towards that point because I thought our NoCa would drive into the open - you can see the Fubuki right behind the mountain, so I feared for her life. Thankfully she was a clever guy and stopped right there, but that left me quite a bit exposed, although I wasn't spotted. And of course I forgot that I had a heal ready... no idea why I didn't use it, maybe I wanted to save it in order to repair "more" damage. - Moments later I got a glimpse of the Atago turning broadside towards me, I had the impression that she would appear behind the mountain moments later, so I switched for AP. She couldn't know that I was here, she'd show me perfect broadside when she appeared, then this would have been a perfect couple of free citadels.- Well...the Blyska which appeared out of nowhere seconds later then took me by surprise. No doubt she was I surprised as me for finding me right on top of her, but I was in the process of switching ammo to AP, the worst possible situation - DD at less than five klicks, my guns are still loading and once they are finished loading it's only AP... uhoh... - I was kinda dead meat at that moment - if I'd turned away I'd have run into danger getting broadside torped, if I'd reversed my engine, I'd have been dead in the water, just waiting for her to sail past me and put a shitload of torps in me. So there was only one thing left I could do: Floor it and YOLO forwards. Unfortunately that left me with no option to GTFO, since the mountain was in the way... from that moment on, I was doomed- But in the short term, it kinda worked against the Blyska - the NoCa really took a nice chunk of her HP and I managed to kill her with my second salvo. This should have been the end of it, but somehow I got lucky - the Fubuki had rushed in as well! Free damage! - Seriously, if she'd stayed out there, I'd still have died, so this was kinda a heaven's blessing - I got the chance to take out one more dangerous ship. As soon as I saw her, I totally ignored the enemy Atago. If the Fubuki dies, our BBs can deal with the Atago, doesn't really matter if I kill her or not at that point. But if I die, the Fubuki will be one hell of a menace (and she's easer to kill), so I concentrated on her ASAP, throwing out a quick torpedo salvo. - Of course she did the same, but thanks to my YOLO-course, I managed to avoid almost all of them (by turning in either direction instead of YOLOing, I'd have been ripped apart), I think there may have been the chance of me evading all of them if I'd turned a moment later, but this was good enough because it got me the time to finish off the Fubuki- I should have been able to take out the Atago as well, but I fucked up the second torp drop - I dropped them to far forward, although the Atago was already turning. Should have noticed that, but there was a lot of shit flying towards me and I was kinda occupied... ^^* - So the Atago survived my torp run, but thankfully our BBs shot her down to 1k, and the Blyska did the rest shortly after the vid finishesThat left us with four BBs, a DD and a cap vs three BBs. From that moment on, the match was pretty much decided, although Surgical75 on the enemy side did one hell of a battle and took out 1.5 BBs on his own. Bottom line: Sometimes it just goes into the crapper. In those instances, don't try to evade the inevitable. Instead, try to make the most out of it. I was dead the moment the Blyska turned up. If I'd tried to run, I'd still have died. Maybe a few moments later, but I'd have died, and I wouldn't have made the enemy pay for my death. But by embracing the inevitable and YOLOing in, I got two of their DDs (reducing their number to zero, so our BBs had free reign), and distracted the cruiser long enough for my team to shoot him to pieces.
WoWs - Like Moths To A Flame clancy688 2016-01-13 | Well... what is the most effective DD hunter? A Montana, of course. :DAnd the second most effective? Yamato! Just look at this - me slugging it out with three DDs at the same time (one of them a Shima) in a Shima, with all of them being less than 7 klicks away. I never even thought that I'd survive this... nor did I expect us to win the match, but we did. oO
WoWs - Seal Clubbing with Murmansk clancy688 2015-11-18 | Just an episode out of the life of my most beloved WoWs ship - the Mighty Murmansk. 19 citadels in 9 minutes. Best I've got in this bucket was 30 citadels. :)))It's my most valuable credits- and confederate flag supplier. ^^Don't take my aiming in here as a case in point lesson, I've recoreded this from the replay with *free* camera, not recorded camera (which is totally bugged for me). So my aim in this video is NOT the aim I used when I actually played this.
WoWs - Post-Patch 5.1 armor test, trying to citadel Myokos with Iowa clancy688 2015-11-08 | So... ...after the current patch 5.1, BB AP vs cruisers seemed broken. After lots of games I had a theory and decided to try it out in the training room. And I think I have proven it: - At first I go broadside to Myokos ranging from 2-6 km. Apart from a few lucky hits, I only get overpenetrations - I basically can't get any good damage rolls on them! - The I open the range and start shooting at Myokos at 8 klicks - here I get citadels the first time, but still not very reliable - From 10 klicks onwards, I seem to get citadels fairly consistently - Next I drive around the Myokos so that they are angled towards me. And suddenly, I'm doing damage again. Not necessarily citadels, but still good penetrations and good damage rolls. Conclusion: If a cruiser closes in on you in your BB, and it only shows you its broadside, switch to AP.With AP, you're only doing overpens and bounces.
WoWs - Torps... sometimes you are lucky, sometimes not clancy688 2015-11-07 | Seriously... I have unreasonable luck in WoWs, but sometimes it's not enough. Watch me ALMOST being beautifully teamtorped by a Zao - only to die a minute later to an equally beautiful enemy Atago torp... xD
WoWs - Dances with Torpedoes clancy688 2015-10-08 | Weeell... wait for the grande finale. I was holding my breath... fucking team-torping Myoko. I guess she didn't expect me to survive. :D
WoWs - Quintuple Citadels On Tirpitz clancy688 2015-09-25 | Tirpitz is a beast they said. Can't be citadeled they said. And now I got five in two salvos... o_OIt's quite funny actually because right when my second savlo scored 4 citadels, I was about to write on chat that citadels on Tirpitz are very, very rare... yeah, right. XD
WoWs - how to kill three ships with two squads of torp planes clancy688 2015-09-24 | I let the video speak for itself...(Please ignore my failings at base... I was preoccupied with the three DDs and there where enough friendly units around me)
WoWs - Final salvo of Nagato before dying... clancy688 2015-09-13 | Well... ...this was an awesome match which gave me 2400 Base XP - and yet we lost. I got 6000 XP over all in a defeat, and it would have been my DAILY win. So I could barely refrain myself from throwing my PC out of the window, but... well... my final salvo was something to be behold. ^^ (But that Atago really was stupid...)
WoWs - Best opening salvo ever clancy688 2015-09-13 | Nagato is shit they said. Don't play it they said. But so far... I'm loving her. :)She has awesome accuracy, as demonstrated in this video.Recorded from the playback with free camera, so my aim in the video is not the actual aim I used in the game... somehow, recorded camera is twitchy as hell :/
Tsunami in Kesennuma city, ascending the Okawa river clancy688 2013-04-08 | The 311 tsunami in Kesennuma city in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Notes: In this video, you can see how the tsunami first ascends the Okawa river in Kesennuma city, and then spills over the embankment, flooding the town. Debris and buildings nearer to the harbor are carried further inlands.The mouth of the river is nearly two kilometres away from the location from which the video was shot. 00:10 - The tsunami's wave trough, which was arriving first, has drained the river01:45 - The tsunami's first wave is appearing and steadily ascending the river, probably a couple of metres high05:00 - While the wand of water rushes by, smoke appears over the harbor - the tsunami's moving inland by now05:45 - The water is rising steadily and the people recognize the danger. A police or civil defense man urges all people to evacuate to the school building behind because the tsunami has overcome the harbor's seawalls. He keeps warning the community using a loudspeaker07:00 - The cameraman enters the school's emergency staircase just in time. While still climbing, the water behind him overcomes the river's embankment and flows onto the school grounds08:15 - A large wave of debris can be seen approaching from the harbor, simultaneously, the tsunami smashes the passenger bridge next to the school to pieces09:30 - Large debris, buildings and such arrive at the school. The flooding intensifies. During the next ten minutes, the school ground is flooded with debris and water. 19:15 - The tsunami stops and starts receding. The following shots are filmed at different times and show the large fire which further devastated the harbor and more (but considerably smaller) waves coming in, hours after the first (since it's nearly dark by then). I didn't shoot this video, it was shot by Mr. Kenichi Kurakami.
Tsunami in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, view from the roof of the AEON department store clancy688 2012-03-14 | The 311 tsunami in Tagajo in Miyagi Prefecture, filmed from the roof of the AEON department store. Notes: Im note actually sure if the last 45 seconds were filmed from the same location, just later. If yes then a massive second wave must've followed the first one.
Tsunami in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture clancy688 2012-03-14 | The tsunami in Shiogama in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Notes: Not a "big" tsunami compared to what Iwate Prefecture faced, but it's still impressive. I wonder what it must've been looked like for the people on the roof of the car park. When they reached the railing, they were already surrounded by water.
Tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture clancy688 2012-03-14 | The 311 tsunami Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Notes: The video's showing the narrow escape of a volunteer firefighter unit from the tsunami. They barely manage it, and when they look back at 5:00 their town disappears behind them.
Tsunami in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture clancy688 2012-03-14 | The 311 tsunami in Onagawa in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Notes: The tsunami in Onagawa was much higher than in Fukushima Daiichi. But here, the nuclear power plant survived the catastrophe without much damage, except for a small, non-threatening fire. Thank god Tohoku Electric Power Company proved having more brains than their fellows from TEPCO (but that's hardly an achievement, of course) with building their power plant on sufficiently elevated ground. That way you have to spend several additional million dollars a year pumping cooling water higher, but at least there are no reactors blowing up in your faces when a tsunami hits.
Tsunami in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture clancy688 2012-03-14 | The 311 tsunami in Natori in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Notes: That's what a tsunami looks like when it's several kilometres inland - not like water at all. It's a wave of objects.
Tsunami in Minamisanriku, Iwate Prefecture, view from Shizugawa Junior High School clancy688 2012-03-14 | The 311 tsunami in Minamisanriku in Iwate Prefecture, as seen from Shizugawa Junior High School. Notes: Another tsunami video from Minamisanriku, showing the incredible force of the tsunami. The buildings on the right were the only ones of the whole town which survived the tsunami.
Tsunami in Minamisanriku, Iwate Prefecture, view at the ocean clancy688 2012-03-14 | The 311 tsunami in Minamisanriku in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Notes: The tsunami's force is enormously - an entire town, completely disappearing in a time span of not even five minutes.
Tsunami in Kuki, near Kuji, Iwate Prefecture clancy688 2012-03-14 | The 311 tsunami in Kuki, near Kuji in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Notes: Notice the MASSIVE second wave smashing into the bay at 0:38 And then, at 7:30 when the water retreats, you can see the bottom of the whole harbor and bay. Just minutes before, nothing of it was even slightly visible.
Tsunami in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, filmed from a hill north of the town clancy688 2012-03-14 | The 311 tsunami in Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Notes: The location is a hill on the north side of the bay, to the right of the road bridge, the City Office and the NHK camera which also filmed the tsunami. I don't understand much japanese, but at first, those people are clearly easygoing. They have obviously faith in their tsunami defenses, the seawalls and, of course, the world-record setting giant Kamaishi breakwater out in the bay. But then, around 9:00 they begin to realize that something's not right - and are absolutely and justifiably shocked when the tsunami starts tearing their town apart a few minutes later.
Tsunami in Iwaki City, Fukushima prefecture clancy688 2012-03-14 | The 311 tsunami in Japan in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture. Notes:Notice at 00:24 the water rising in the sewers - the tsunami's pressing the underground water to the surface. And then, at 03:15 an entire house is moving - even when the tsunami's only half a metre high!
Tsunami in Hasunume, Chiba Prefecture clancy688 2012-03-14 | The 311 tsunami at Hasunume in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Notes:Not a big tsunami, but nonetheless powerful. The water is not even half a metre high, but that's more than enough for it to carry enormous amounts of debris with it.
Tsunami in the Sendai Airport area, Miyagi Prefecture, helicopter view clancy688 2012-03-13 | The 311 tsunami at the Sendai Airport area in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, as filmed from a news helicopter. Notes: It's incredible, for how long the wave keeps pushing forward. Moreover, it has so much momentum, that its front is still traveling farther inlands, while the coast regions are already nearly dry again!
Tsunami at Taneichi port, Iwate Prefecture clancy688 2012-03-13 | The 311 tsunami at Taneichi port in Iwate Prefecture. Notes: It certainly doesn't look that way, but the second wave arriving at 0:40 is several metres high. Look at the height of the seawall in the foreground. After the wave hit, it's totally submerged.
Tsunami at Oirase port, Aomori Prefecture clancy688 2012-03-13 | The 311 tsunami at Oirase port in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Notes: At 8:10 the cameraman barely manages to escape before the second wave hits.
Tsunami at Kamaishi port, Iwate Prefecture clancy688 2012-03-13 | The 311 Tsunami at Kamaishi port in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Notes:This video is somehow unique, since it shows the actual comings and goings of the tsunami and not just the arrival of the biggest wave. It starts a couple of minutes after the earthquake, probably somewhere around 2:50 and 2:55 pm and then goes on for at least one and a half hour, plus some footage of the night and the next day. You can see how the water level falls in the minutes after the earthquake, the sign of an approaching tsunami. Then around 18:00 the tsunami begins to flood the port. The most impressive footage occurs during the two minutes after 24:00, then the tsunami overcomes the seawalls and smashes with incredible force into the city. The building from which this video was shot can be seen on a NHK video which was shown often on TV:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBt5VlZkdyYIt's behind the road bridge, on the right side. The building with the pyramid shaped tower. The video was probably shot out of this tower. At the entrance of the bay, a large structure can be seen. That structure is the Kamaishi Breakwater. It was intended to save the town from tsunamis and took 30 years to build until being completed in 2009. In 2010 it got its own entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, for it was the deepest breakwater on the planet. At 18:00 the waves begin flowing over the breakwater and for the next ten minutes it disappears in foam. When it reappears at 34:00 it is torn apart - it took Mother Nature merely ten minutes to smash something which took humans 30 years to build. Still it probably wasn't completely useless. Kamaishi was inundated in water up to 38 feet / 11.5 metres high, but that was behind the breakwater. In front of the breakwater, the water reached up to 100 feet / 30.5 metres. Ryoishi, a little fishing village further north Kamaishi Bay, which was not protected by the breakwater, got destroyed by waves up to 64 feet / 19.5 metres high. So the breakwater probably absorbed some of the tsunami's energy and deflected some more to the north side of the bay, which effectively halved the tsunami's height in Kamaishi city. Unfortunately that doesn't help at all if you're confronted with a monster tsunami, which even with its height halved is still higher than your defenses.Video recorded by Kamaishi Port Office, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Provided by EERI member Shunsuke Otani.
Tsunami at Noda port, near Kuji, Iwate Prefecture clancy688 2012-03-13 | The 311 tsunami at Noda port, near Kuji in Iwate Prefecture. Notes: I uploaded it because of the breaking wave at 01:07 - damn impressive, if you ask me. Here the tsunami's not a rising tide as at most other locations, but an actual, breaking wave.
Tsunami at Kuji port, Iwate Prefecture clancy688 2012-03-12 | The 311 tsunami at Kuji Port in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Notes: There's another version of this filmed by a helicopter overhead which can shortly be heard on this video. Often the 311 tsunami looked like a fast rising tide rather than an actual wave, but here at Kuji you can actually sea the wave-like appearance of the tsunami.
Tsunami at Kuji port, Iwate Prefecture, helicopter view clancy688 2012-03-12 | The 311 tsunami impacting at Kuji port in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, filmed from a helicopter. Notes: There's also another video which shows the tsunami from the ground.
Tsunami at Kesennuma port, Iwate Prefecture, view 3 clancy688 2012-03-12 | The 311 tsunami at Kesennuma port in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Yet another view. The tsunami wreaking havoc across the anchored ships.
Tsunami at Kesennuma port, Iwate Prefecture, view 2.mp4 clancy688 2012-03-12 | The 311 tsunami at Kesennuma port in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Notes: This is the video filmed from the building directly across the other video I've posted. It's only a compilation of the most impressive moments of the tsunami and I do have a full length version of this view. But this version has very low quality, so I'm posting this one instead.
Tsunami at Kesennuma port, Iwate Prefecture, view 1 clancy688 2012-03-12 | The 311 tsunami at Kesennuma port in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Notes: There exists another tsunami video filmed from the big building which's on the right side.
Tsunami at Cape Hirota, near Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture clancy688 2012-03-12 | The 311 tsunami at Cape Hirota, near the city of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Notes: If you study the video carefully, you can see that the tsunami comes in several sweeps, but without much retreating between those sweeps. The initial wave comes at 01:40, a second and highest one arrives at 10:30. It's interesting to see that in this case, the tsunami doesn't resemble a wave, but more a incredibly fast and high rising tide. The highest water level can be observed at 12:30. Its hard to see, but if you compare the height of the central power pole in the harbor with what's actually sticking out of the water at that moment (only the tip of the pole), then the tsunami height must've been easily ten meters or more.
Tsunami at Kamaishi City Office, Iwate Prefecture clancy688 2012-03-12 | The 311 tsunami at the Kamaishi City Office in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Notes: The video's taken at least one or two minutes after the tsunami overcame the city's tsunami walls. Yet it took the water time to flow through the streets. There are several other videos, taken from the hills on the north side (to the left and behind this video's position) where the people can see the tsunami penetrating the defenses, a long time before citizens who are still in the town realize what's happening.
Tsunami near Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture clancy688 2012-03-12 | The 311 tsunami at Naraha in Fukushima Prefecture. Notes:It's now inside the 20km Fukushima Daiichi Exclusion Zone. To the right of the industrial structure at the horizon lies J-Village, the base of operations for the Fukushima cleanup. Fukushima Daini and Daiichi are behind the cameraman.
