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The Last Lecture Given by Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) at Carnegie Mellon University, Sept. 18, 2007
Many have seen this, but it always behooves us to revisit these videos of Randy Pausch. His message is timeless, and has the power to change our perception of how we live the rest of our lives.
Randy Pausch was a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon. He lived a joyful, even uproarious life working on amazing projects and engaging in romantic exploits, fun endeavors and exciting adventures.
He was brilliant, handsome, popular, creative and a super human dynamo in unstoppable action. He was also very funny, witty, charming. When he discovered he was dying of pancreatic cancer, everything in his life took on new meaning of monumental proportion.
He was at the top of his game, married to the woman of his dreams and father to 3 beautiful young children, the apples of his fatherly eye. The thought of leaving them all was more than he could bear, but bore it he has, sharing his haunting and beautiful story with the world.
Extraordinary Video With More Footage and Details On Recovering the Footage From the Badly Damaged Dashboard Camera With Subtitles
This is probably one of the most extraordinary live Fukishima videos ever captured while tsunami waters engulf the streets of Senda minutes after the devastating 8.9 Japan Earthquake.
In the first minute of this video, you will see the incredible shaking of the street and buildings, almost as if the landscape is on a platform of rubber. The back and forth movement is huge. Buildings sway, cars bounce, streets rise and fall.
One man crouches and reels in an attempt to keep his balance. The video skips to an hour later when the rushing waters hit without warning.
Mr. Muroga, a delivery driver who has a security dashcam installed in his vehicle, was making a delivery through Sendai’s Miyagino-ku when the March 2011 Japan Earthquake struck. Since he was over a kilometer away from the ocean, he and others mistakenly assumed they were safe from any resulting floodwaters.
Out of nowhere, you can see a torrent of rushing water start to rush across the intersection several blocks ahead. One passenger leaps from his car to the right. He doesn’t know where to run.
Suddenly, within seconds, waters rise from behind. Frantic drivers have no time to leave their vehicles and they begin to float. You can see the auto headlights beaming and windshield wipers swishing back and forth while cars, vans and trucks bob and float in the rapidly rising water filled with debris.
MIRACLE SURVIVAL
If there is ANYTHING amazing and beautiful about this video, it is that Mr. Muroga was able to leap from his vehicle and swam to safety. Within minutes, you can see his vehicle pummeled as it’s swept into a warehouse where it is then crushed and overcome in a wave of metal, water and darkness. At one point while still in his vehicle, Mr. Muroga had briefly hoped the flood waters would recede and he could be saved.
Mr. Muroga wants everyone to see the extraordinary power and devastation of a tidal wave that can overcome a city without warning. He reports that there was no noise, no warning whatsoever. It was truly a silent killer. His message:
Watch the video and see how important it is to leave your vehicle and seek higher ground during a tidal wave. If there are any coastal earthquakes, be aware of tsunamis even if you over a kilometer distant from the sea.
