A Japanese home adrift in the Pacific Ocean, photographed by U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Dylan McCord.
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Has anyone had contact with someone in Japan with a story to tell that hasn’t been on the news?
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A good live stream is Yokosonews. Best perspective I’ve found so far from someone in Japan.
If you like dogs, this is quite touching.
This headline is of the sort that got Gilbert fired by Aflac. Btw, I like this sort of sick humor. I think that is truly a house boat.
The real estate agent for that house claims “Ocean views from every room!”
This highdef video taken up close of the tsunami just blew me away.
That house seems to be up pretty high in the water–why didn’t it sink to near roof top with just the buoyancy of the wood to keep it afloat?
#5–yank==Wow. Thats a lot of water. Bit disorienting at 4:15 when the houses get unmoored.
bobbo #6 – three words: rigid foam insulation.
Canada–the same as used in boats? No wonder. Makes sense given its cold country where the tsunami hit. I wonder if it is used with “this application” in mind?
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Now that’s some seriously solid construction!
There used to be a saying: “Come hell or high water…” Now it will be: “The hell of high water.”
#5: I wonder if that van that was driving away made it.
the builder should use that pic in his ads
HEY GILBERT !!! I think your girlfriend is about to come around.
ba dum
“Honey !!!, I think the faucet is dripping again”
ba dum
“Dear, where did you park the car?”
ba dum
“Row row row your boat
Gently out to sea,
Merrily merrily merrily merrily,
Now I gotta pee.”
ba dum
“Spring has sprung,
the waves has riz,
I wonder where the rescuers is?”
ba dum
WOW !!!, talk about swimming in jokes.
It may well be rigid foam insulation but I suspect we only saw the top story. There appears to be some sort of wooden decking on the side we are facing. Click on it to expand it to full scale and there is no doubt about it.
On the other hand that building was unbelievably well built to stand up to that kind of beating.
#5
Well that answers the question, Does it Float?
Always wondered why they don’t make houses that might be floated off their foundations in flood prone areas (and I don’t necessarily mean a houseboat-like hulled vessel).
Some kind of foam or air pontoons, attachable when the weather gets threatening, maybe.
You could secure it with an ‘anchor’ chain and calmly go fishing off your porch, waving at passersby in their skiffs.
But will it blend, that is the question…