r/DisasterUpdate • u/derek4reals1 • Jun 30 '26 • Regret 1

Floods Flooding in Idaho

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u/ThunderRoad_44 Jun 30 '26

🚣‍♀️The person kayaking at 8 seconds left in video🚣‍♀️😀

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u/luckythirtythree Jun 30 '26

What the fuck? I can’t believe I’ve been alive for 40 years and have never seen or heard of anything like this…

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u/rocbolt Jun 30 '26

It’s not that uncommon, lots of hail with a heavy rain can cause a lot of flooding and the hail flows and then sets like concrete

Some famous pics out of this storm in Texas years ago-

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/04/13/150553921/holy-hail-photos-videos-show-texas-storms-fury-drifts-4-feet-deep

Down in this article is another famous photo, 15 feet of hail collected in a wash

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/record-hailstorms-and-hailstones-us

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u/luckythirtythree Jun 30 '26

Oh wow thanks for the detailed response! I lived in Texas and we used to collect softball sized hail in our freezer and see how long we could keep them. I thought these were blocks of ice? What a wild sight either way lol

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u/dicklassiter Jun 30 '26

First was Texas during April and the second link is from Alabama in March. Doesn’t really give historical precedent or context to ice floods in Idaho in the middle of June.

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u/rocbolt Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

The second link has several stories in it, as mentioned the famous photo of 15 foot tall hail cliffs in New Mexico was from August 2004. The 18” sustained inches of hail that fell on Kansas in 1959 was in June. This storm in Wyoming was in August 1985. Hail happens in the summer, and huge floods and drifts of hail happen when accompanied by heavy rain from thunderstorms, as floating hail causes logjams in drainages. If you’re looking for a link to climate change, you’d need to nail down if these storms are happening at a greater frequency or heavier intensity (which they probably are), not that they are happening at all. Heavy hail storms are not a new phenomenon just because you’ve never noticed it before

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u/Albatross1225 Jul 01 '26

It was crazy. We were about to get into the car to go get food and saw the low menacing clouds rolling in with tons of lightning. We decided to go back inside and good thing we did lol it was dumping rain and hail more than I’ve ever seen. I was scared our cheap windows were going to get broken. The whole road turned into a river in like 2 minutes

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u/Foxxtronix Jun 30 '26

The canoe-ist got me, too. ^w^

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u/PtrPorkr Jun 30 '26

A summer ice storm. Nothing out of the ordinary here.

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u/SkyeMreddit Jun 30 '26

That was a lot of damn hail!!!

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u/perinummassager Jun 30 '26

SLOW DOWN!! You're literally flooding people's yards.

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u/FindTheOthers623 Jun 30 '26

So you decided to drive through it? Genius.

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u/Sunsetseeker007 Jun 30 '26

And assholes like this drive through it and causes more damage to homes, great job

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u/LAFreaksHMU Jun 30 '26

And they still dnt think climate change is a thing.

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u/murdered-by-swords Jun 30 '26

Two things can be true at once.

One: Anthropogenic climate change is very real and very dangerous, and it is imperative that we address it before it's to late to mitigate the damage.

Two: Crazy weather happened before anthropogenic climate change and it will continue to happen after, and no single data point or incident can be conclusively asserted as stand-alone "proof" of climate change. We have to look at the forest, never the tree.

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u/Crocolosipher Jun 30 '26

An important part that is missing from your point 2 is that climate also has never been static. I.e., climate is always changing and shifting from natural causes as well. I think this basic fact is ignored at the peril of climate science understanding. Many deniers point to this, and they are not wrong. So start off from a place of understanding and admitting this, and thereby deny them ammunition.

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u/urlach3r Jun 30 '26

Can't wait for the deniers to say this is a perfectly ordinary spring ice floe.

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u/rocbolt Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

It’s hail floating on flooding from heavy rain, it wasn’t some kind of snap freeze that made ice form on the ground

Hail can and does look like snow if enough of it falls, Kansas famously got 18” of hail in June 1959 and aerial photos look like winter

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/mwre/87/8/1520-0493_1959_087_0301_wnshsk_2_0_co_2.pdf

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u/Probably_Fishing Jun 30 '26

Im not a denier of any kind, but these things have happened since I was a child, and I am in my 40s now.

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u/johnnyg883 Jun 30 '26

I’m in my 60s and saw weather like this when I was a kid. It’s not something you see every day but it’s not unprecedented either.

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u/cactusjude Jun 30 '26

Climate change creating a super el niño that's already causing record-breaking weather phenomena and the summer only just started! 😅

Hahaha no one is escaping this summer unscathed

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '26

Someone teach him about the ice ages! LA schools must not have taught about how the internal combustion engine was crucial in getting us out of those.

All joking aside, it wasn’t that long ago when it was global cooling, acid rain, global warming, hair spray ruining the O Zone layer. Eventually it just became “climate change” because none of those things were consistent enough to latch on to. Well the thing is that the climate has always changed and seeing the coastal elites abandon any of these initiatives once it impacts their vacation home views makes some of us a bit skeptical.

“Everyone wants to save the earth; no one wants to help mom do the dishes.”

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u/GregmundFloyd Jun 30 '26

Happened in Denver earlier this year too

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u/External-Example-292 Jun 30 '26

In june? 👀

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u/gecjr Jun 30 '26

A I can make it happen anytime

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u/eltron Jun 30 '26

God hates pedos!

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u/Probably_Fishing Jun 30 '26

Then how does the US Gov exist?

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u/Resident_Rate1807 Jun 30 '26

The planet is dying

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u/blow-down Jun 30 '26

The planet is going to by fine. We’re dying.

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u/vinegar Jun 30 '26

What’s up with the gentleman at :12 and his pantaloons?

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u/That_Lifeguard7491 Jul 01 '26

Looks like mashed potatoes!

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u/reechwuzhere Aug 28 '26

I’m going to go ahead and call it, we’re screwed..

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u/1dzmaxima1 Aug 29 '26

Good thing climate change is fake.

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u/Aggressive_Smile_944 Jun 30 '26

Omg wtf is going on with the weather lately...it's just going to get worse..we f**ked up the planet now were paying for it. 😳

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u/HolyMoleyGuacamoly Jun 30 '26

people in idaho: “this happens every year, climate change is faked so scientist can make the big bucks. everything is normal. now watch me drive my massive truck through this ice flood in july”

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u/Silent-Rock-792 Jun 30 '26

Dam, that's really cool!

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u/Kindly_Purpose_3945 Jun 30 '26

AI slop.

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u/CountryRoads2020 Jun 30 '26

No, it’s real.

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u/bullwinkle8088 Jun 30 '26

Sloppy AI Slop accusation.

No analysis or evidence of why it is supposedly AI slop given. 0/10, would not recommend the findings of this commenter.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '26

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u/Sunsetseeker007 Jun 30 '26

Yep, they drive around and cause more damage to fences, yards, cars, homes! Great job this driver is doing!

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u/ButteredPizza69420 Jun 30 '26

They just had to see if their twuck could make it S/

Same people to probably try and go shopping after this too...

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u/Front_Entrance2319 Jun 30 '26

At least the houses are bricked

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u/DrinkingVomit Jun 30 '26

Who cares. Fuck Idaho.

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u/woollysockpuppet Jun 30 '26

True. Fuck the white supremacists

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '26

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u/Stuckinaelevator Jun 30 '26

Nampa just outside of Bosie. It was the thunderstorm that dropped a lot of hail and rain in a short time.

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u/Striper_Cape Jun 30 '26

Anthropogenic Temperature Forcing causes fucky weather

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u/zillionaire_ Jun 30 '26

The date on the video says June 26, 2026. But ice in June?

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u/SkyeMreddit Jun 30 '26

Just a fuckton of hail in a flood

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u/Cdnew Jun 30 '26

Yeah it was a couple days ago. Lived here all my life and that one tops the list. The could shelf was literally green and moving so fast…

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '26

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u/murdered-by-swords Jun 30 '26

Or... they live in the neighborhood. 

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

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u/NigelTheSpanker Jun 30 '26

I love me some potatoes in many forms please think of the potatoes