This is exactly how I felt watching that awesome destructive force.
While I feel terrible for the people from Japan who got slammed by that thing I can't quite describe how I felt watching people in Hawaii, who were able to watch the video of what happened in Japan just 6 hours or so previous, standing on the bleeping beach right as the tsunami was supposed to hit Hawaii.
I know that it turned out far less destructive there than had been feared, but that doesn't account for the clueless behavior. For all those people knew the ocean could have wiped Honolulu out and they were standing around with their thumbs up their asses waiting for it.
By that point I would have been climbing the nearest mountain with a backpack on after seeing what that shit could do.
There's always some idiot with a surfboard heading towards the disaster.. and then rescuers have to risk lives and spend money to save them if they don't die right away.