Posted on 03/11/2011 8:01:45 AM PST by Red Badger
TOKYO, Japan - A passenger train with an unknown number of people aboard was unaccounted for in a tsunami-hit part of coastal Japan, Kyodo News reported Friday, citing police.
The East Japan Railway Co. train was running near Nobiru Station on the Senseki Line connecting Sendai to Ishinomaki when a massive quake hit, triggering a 10-metre (33-foot) tsunami, the report said.
Oh, dear! Real life copying disaster movies.
Not good.
Sad but not surprising. The death toll is sure to rise into the thousands. Prayers to Japan.
I keep thinking about when we lived there and how much we loved the country and the people.
Along with so many others, my prayers are up for Japan.
Oh dear God.
What horrors will they find when the sun comes up? Right now it is 1AM there. The videos and pictures we are seeing are from yesterday afternoon Japan time. My friends aunt lives in Sendai which was the hardest hit -— no one has heard from her yet....
Sendai farmland and villages were inundated by a relentless extremely fast-moving 30 foot wall of foam, mud and flaming debris that came up the river and then burst outward, up to 6 miles inland - it was horrifying to watch, some of us saw it live last night from helo crew filming ... it looked like the movies about the last days of Pompeii
This is bad news for the relatives of those train passaegers
Hopefully the train just got trapped somewhere out of communications
Horrible. I shudder at what the death toll will be when this is all said and done.
The Senseki train line runs right along the coast in certain areas and across flat low-lying plains elsewhere. Very sad.
Prayers for the people caught in the tsumani in Japan and elsewhere.
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