A volcano as well ?! Now all we need is aliens to invade and Godzilla to come out of the ocean (awoken by the radiation from the reactors, u know).
> There was a piece of video showing people > trying to escape the tsunami in their cars. But they were just driving randomly. Some > of them were driving towards the approaching wave. Then when they realised, they were > trying to turn around in an orderly fashion, rather than just driving off the road. > When panic sets in, your brain just stops thinking logically.
Reminds of Dante's Peak where the Brosnan character drives across that river (using his engine breathing tube) and those folks follow him (with cars not fitted with engine breathing tube). Plus the bit where he goes apeshit and just drives straight into that mine in order to escape the pyroclastic cloud. Fiction of course but who can tell how anyone is really going to behave in this kind of thing ?
When the Iceland volcano went off I was convinced we were all going to be poisoned by fumes from the volcano and that the government were covering it up. Looked a bit deeper and found out that is was very unlikely. Still, having had some of my training in this esteemed bin I've decided that being loony / crazy / mad boosts my survival chances by a large percentage.