Tsunami - Caught on camera. C4 last night

[CFH]

Did anyone catch this documentary that was on Channel 4 last night.

Fukking hell

It was quite simply the most riveting but emotionally devastating programme i have seen. I cannot even begin to imagine the grief that these people must feel over losing their loved ones. Looking on as their small children are swept away in front of their eyes.

The hour it was on was filled with minute after minute of truly harrowing footage (a lot of it never shown on TV before). The chap standing there as the tsunami hits the beach (you see him swept away like a match stick), the people clinging on to the trees, the couple finding their child is dead by seeing a photo pinned on a board. I mean...that truly is the worst thing EVER. I don't normally get upset about things and hey i know fellas tend to hold on to their emotions but i was genuinely upset watching this. The image of the guy next to the bike crying and asking god why he had been left....how utterly utterly devastating. That piece of foootage alone was so powerful it deserved its own award. All those poor parents that lost young kids. The Tsunami claimed almost 250,000 lives. Probably not the best placed comment i am going to make but in humanitarian and loss of life terms it makes 9/11 look like a toothache. A third were children. I had to go upstairs and hug my kids in their beds after watching.

The whole thing deserves a BAFTA award or something because i don't think you will find another bit of TV as riveting or as emotionally crushing as this.

Watching it made me realise that...although we are the dominant species on this planet and the top of the food chain. Humans have money, power, techonolgy. If mother nature wants to rear her head every now and again to show us who's boss, then there is not a thing we can do about it.....and boy can she be a b*tch!

I watched and was shocked by the footage.


Mankind thinks its the most powerfull thhing on earth but this doc showed mother nature is still number 1.

Not to make light of a horrible catastrophe, but that statement reminds me of this (George Carlin on nature):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4

[Nameless]

I've seen a footage from the huge one that did strike Indonesia something like 2 years ago and it is horribly creepy, everything is normal and then you have that kind of one wave, too huge to look real by any stretch swallowing everything infront of him with peoples slowly panicking and realizing what's going on. Definitely creepy.

[Master]

Do not tend to watch these films, the twin towers still get me, the worst i saw was people killing animals for food, dropping a cow from a height and boiling a cat alive. Put me off meat for a week.