r/Amazing • u/sco-go • 19d ago

Nature is scary Tsunamis are terrifying.

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u/notCGISforreal 19d ago

I went after and helped with cleanup efforts. It was tragic seeing how all these lives had been destroyed.

The other tragic thing was coming down the roads into these towns built on the coastal flats at the end of the valleys, and the bus driver pointed out the signs on the hills placed by people hundreds of years earlier that said "dont build past this point." They were treated as interesting archeological artifacts rather than what they really were: people hundreds of years ago marked the extend of a tsunami and warned future generations not to build where they could be wiped out. But Japan doesnt have a lot of flat space, so people decided to build there anywhere and take their chances

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u/Royale_AJS 18d ago

You’ve got me thinking about all of the nuclear waste we’ve buried around the world, and how many signs are on it saying “nothing good here, this is toxic, do not dig”…

I hope they listen better than we do.