# Japanese post-tsunami cleanup pics at the six-month mark **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 5, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928 "2011-11-05T03:14:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/1 "2011-11-05T03:14:33Z")
Looking pretty good, actually: [http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2011/09/japan-marks-6-months-since-ear.html](http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2011/09/japan-marks-6-months-since-ear.html) ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/2 "2011-11-05T03:23:08Z")
Great pictures! Thanks for posting this link. ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/3 "2011-11-05T03:29:12Z")
Holy shit. That is some awful destruction. But the clean-up, even at this point is amazing. I was particularly floored by the one taken at the top of a staircase. And the one with the boat on the roof. Where did all that garbage end up going? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/4 "2011-11-05T03:40:09Z")
Detroit. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/5 "2011-11-05T04:12:26Z")
Very interesting pics there. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/6 "2011-11-05T04:23:38Z")
It’s amazing what you can accomplish with enough giant robots. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/7 "2011-11-05T05:44:39Z")
Wow. They are _handling_ it. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/8 "2011-11-05T05:49:14Z")
Having worked on rather more primitive tsunami cleanup, I have to say the progress is _staggering_. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/9 "2011-11-05T05:53:10Z")
Did the take those ships apart or tow them away? ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/10 "2011-11-05T10:48:04Z")
Great photos of an unbelievable effort. You really get slapped with the amount of work that had to be done to come even to that point in a 6month period. Thank you for posting this. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/11 "2011-11-05T13:27:20Z")
> [@Bearflag70](#): > > Did the take those ships apart or tow them away? [Check this out](http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/06/17/ships-tsunami-beached.html). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/12 "2011-11-06T21:09:25Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > [Check this out](http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/06/17/ships-tsunami-beached.html). Very cool - thanks! Reminds me a little of this pic of the USS _Cole_ being brought back to the U.S. for repairs: [http://www.g-ratedstuff.com/navy\_pix/usscole1.jpg](http://www.g-ratedstuff.com/navy_pix/usscole1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/13 "2011-11-06T22:06:01Z")
In that first series of pictures, all of the debris has been removed, but that white van is still in the same spot. ---
**Author:** ![RedWood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@RedWood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedWood)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/14 "2011-11-06T22:34:34Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > In that first series of pictures, all of the debris has been removed, but that white van is still in the same spot. perhaps it’s the photographer’s van? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/15 "2011-11-06T22:48:13Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > In that first series of pictures, all of the debris has been removed, but that white van is still in the same spot. I think it’s in a slightly different spot in the last photo. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/16 "2011-11-06T23:54:11Z")
Amazing how much they’ve done so far. I admire their will and determination to clean up the damage and move forward. Heck, it’s been years and parts of New Orleans is still showing Katrina damage. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/17 "2011-11-07T00:00:12Z")
It is remarkable. Thanks for posting. > [@aceplace57](#): > > Amazing how much they’ve done so far. I admire their will and determination to clean up the damage and move forward. > > Heck, it’s been years and parts of New Orleans is still showing Katrina damage. True, but the population being significantly lower in New Orleans now is the main reason I would think. **Year - Population- %change** [2000](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_Census) 484,674 −2.5% [2010](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_Census) 343,829 −29.1% ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/18 "2012-03-19T14:55:34Z")
Bumping this thread to post [these astonishing pictures](http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/03/japan_tsunami_pictures_before.html) after one year (click the pics for before/after). Mindblowing. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/19 "2012-03-19T19:05:57Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Bumping this thread to post [these astonishing pictures](http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/03/japan_tsunami_pictures_before.html) after one year (click the pics for before/after). Mindblowing. They’ve done some pretty amazing cleaning-up. Odd to see several of the larger vessels still in place, though. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928/20 "2012-03-19T20:14:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > They’ve done some pretty amazing cleaning-up. Odd to see several of the larger vessels still in place, though. What else are you going to do with them? They’d have to be cut up where they sit. Maybe they can be turned into buildings… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-post-tsunami-cleanup-pics-at-the-six-month-mark/601928.md?page=2)