Cars, Houses, Other Japan Earthquake Wreckage En Route To The U.S. West Coast

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by Frances Martel | 4:17 pm, April 9th, 2011

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The devastation in Japan after the massive earthquake and tsunami last month appears to have no end, and within a year’s time much of what was destroyed may end up on U.S. shores. Scientists are now predicting that it will take a year for the wreckage from towns essentially erased off the map to end up in Washington, Oregon and California, wreckage including whole houses, cars, and human remains.

Several news outlets have reported on the astronomical amount of debris floating in the ocean near Japan– more than 200,000 buildings have been estimated to have washed into the ocean, along with thousands of people, cars, boats, and miscellany. The Daily Mail reports:

Scientists say the first bits of debris from Japan are due to reach the West Coast in a year’s time after being carried by currents toward Washington, Oregon and California.

They will then turn toward Hawaii and back again toward Asia, circulating in what is known as the North Pacific Gyre, said [oceanographer Curtis] Ebbesmeyer.

Not only will the debris potentially have a severe impact on the West Coast’s beaches, some of it may be radioactive given the Fukushima nuclear disaster, though that risk would be “very low” within a year. Below a report from ABC News on the debris with some shocking images of the ongoing disaster:

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Georgia999

So very sad! So many people affected by this horrible disaster.
BeckFinallyDemoted

Reminds me of the time my friend died and he gave me all his stuff.

Too soonami?
illusive man

God I love the Japanese.
Thay are hit with so much shit, But they get back up and shout ” Fuck you nature, You can’t keep us down!”
They might not act like it, But the spirit of the samuri is still strong within in them.
There going to be just fine.
jo hoochie

BeckFinallyDemoted said:
Reminds me of the time my friend died and he gave me all his stuff. Too soonami?

You’re an IDIOT! We can tell you are a lefty loon!!
rubberneck

Sad…
JJ Vachon

I live on the beach in Ventura, CA. I hope a nice car washes ashore. Preferably something sporty ;)
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They should think twice about bringing Nuclear Contaminated Metal to American’s shores. I believe this because I bought a watch make in Japan, Probably from where we dropped the Bomb in world war two, I developed a little sore under the watch, I took the watch off and the sore healed in about 30 days. I usually heal a cut in 3 to 4 day. After about a year I try wearing the watch from Japan again and the same thing happened. I threw the watch away. I don’t buy anything produced in Japan anymore. I surely would not import nuclear contaminated metal from Japan to America. Let them bury it in the ocean to regenerate for future generations.
andthehorseyourodeinon

illusive man said:
God I love the Japanese.
Thay are hit with so much shit, But they get back up and shout ” Fuck you nature, You can’t keep us down!”
They might not act like it, But the spirit of the samuri is still strong within in them.
There going to be just fine.

Agree. Hell were still hearing from the whiners and complainers in new Orleans about Katrina.
andthehorseyourodeinon

What do you want to bet there will be an American Pickers type program on discovery once the flotsam and jetsam hits our coast
chasrmartin

“some of it may be radioactive given the Fukushima nuclear disaster, though that risk would be “very low” within a year.”

Of course some of it’s radioactive. Bananas are radioactive. YOU are radioactive. Jeeez, folks, get a grip.
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ah,God bless !
DaTruth

God help the owner of that house if it lands on the shores of California. One can only imagine the property tax bill that would ensue.