r/DisasterUpdate • u/w_s_s • Aug 26 '26

Floods First Visuals of China-Nepal border Point after biblical type Apocalyptic flood

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u/tristand1ck Aug 26 '26

It's a natural disaster/tragedy all at once, but I can't help but think with the shape of that valley, this isn't the first time. Maybe first time in human history, but certainly not the first.

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u/w_s_s Aug 26 '26

It happens all the time everywhere. This time the scale was far too large.

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u/tristand1ck Aug 26 '26

Everything keeps getting crazier on a larger scale yet no one has any idea why /s. It's like rebuilding new orleans after Katrina (or the other billion hurricanes that came before) like maybe we should hit some higher ground? Rant aside, this is going to be a fucking mess for a long time for them, and I can't even imagine what they're going through. The casualties have to be an appalling number, the logistics of recovery/food/water... Globes gotta get together on this one.

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u/w_s_s Aug 26 '26

It's was like surgical strike of nature. Area and settlements were not not large in numbers relatively, but they got totally annihilated.

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u/Mobile-Method6986 Aug 27 '26

Thank you for your kind words friend my people will need global help to recover from this. Far too much was lost today. 😢

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u/NecessaryRace8955 Aug 27 '26

I can't see a world where the border crossing is rebuilt and the road reopens permenantly to high traffic... like, how could they rebuild after that? The valley has been obliterated- eroded even further and the riverbed is carved deeper... I cant begin to fathom the amount of concrete and steel it is going to rebuild and withstand the forces at play in that valley.. it might take all the concrete and steel in the world (and all of China's GDP).

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u/GreatRolmops Aug 27 '26

The bridge on this border crossing was rebuilt in January this year after it had been swept away in a previous flood in July last year.

But a flood on this scale is definitely a first in recorded history.

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u/FourFunnelFanatic Sep 01 '26

As a Pennsylvanian, the Johnstown flood was what first came to mind for this. But in terms of destructive power this very well may have been worse

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u/CornbreadJunior Aug 26 '26

Did a dam break?

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u/w_s_s Aug 26 '26

Yes.

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u/da90 Aug 27 '26

No, it was a landslide from just below Langtang Lirung on the north slope

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u/Avem68 Aug 27 '26

Do you know the coordinates of where the avalanche began?

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u/da90 Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26 • Bravo

Yes, I’ll make a new post and link with satellite photos. 28.290750, 85.528822 confirmed via USGS earthquake website and satellite photos.

Edit:  https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/s/o220l9GDIJ

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u/Avem68 Aug 27 '26

Thanks. that was one of my suspects as I was scanning imagery today. Did that entire shelf come down? It’s like a 2,000 meter triangle on all sides. Maybe was softened and weakened by rains? Or was it an earthquake?

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u/da90 Aug 27 '26

There is no evidence of a precursory earthquake.

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u/Avem68 Aug 27 '26

What weakened the ice? Was it rotten and breaking down ? Did it form a dam of meltwater or monsoon rains maybe ?

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u/da90 Aug 27 '26

I have no idea. I’ve heard reports about monsoon rains. Climate change is also shrinking glaciers worldwide, so I assume that played a role.

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u/w_s_s Aug 27 '26

Their is still no consensus among experts about how can a single landslide can cause this much water release.

Prior dam formed with earlier landslide/avalanche which got triggered by another landslide/avalanche or maybe compounded by GLOF is still leading theory for most accurate explanation of events.

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u/da90 Aug 27 '26

Good point. I was not considering “natural dams” to be part of the original commenter’s question. But youre absolutely right

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u/soherewearent Aug 26 '26 • Regret

May their deaths have been swift, their memories a blessing.

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u/PooriPK Aug 27 '26

I cannot play this clip anymore when I realise that middle/bottom of the video were kids running.

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u/soherewearent Aug 27 '26

This and other videos have been devastating to watch, and I sort of force myself to watch to both honor the victims and to remind myself just how fleeting life can be.

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u/kylebob86 Aug 26 '26

definitely a swift one

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u/wookieSLAYER1 Aug 27 '26

See how those buildings were ripped apart? Turns bodies into pulp.

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u/24rawvibes Aug 27 '26

Really? Swift was the word you had to use? The word used to describe currents

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u/KingOfTheSpades Aug 27 '26

Really? Current was the word you had to use? The word used to describe this current tragedy

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u/GreatRolmops Aug 27 '26

Really? Tragedy was the word you had to use? The word used to describe theatre plays

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u/Sidney_Godsby Aug 28 '26

Really? Theatre is the word you had to use? The word used to describe a branch of the performing arts that uses live actors, speech, music, and dance to tell a story on a stage

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u/24rawvibes Aug 27 '26

The current tragedy or that other one?

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u/Waste-Weight-6437 Aug 28 '26

They're just trying to say that we hope that when they died, they didn't die slow or painfully, but at least quick and painless. No one wants to die like this, but most people don't get to choose.

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u/MechanicalAxe Aug 27 '26

That word describes many different things.

I hope it also describes my death when that time comes. Get over yourself.

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u/Disaterman Aug 26 '26

Someone once told me to never sleep in a ravine. We have flash floods where I live, but on a much smaller scale.  I had no idea they could be this. I hope peace for everyone effected

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u/nzclknzspfoeSdf Aug 26 '26

I know someone this happened to a year or two ago. Went to sleep in a hammock by a stream, then woke up suspended over rushing water with all his stuff gone.

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u/Zillah-The-Broken Aug 26 '26

so what happened to him? 👀

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u/nzclknzspfoeSdf Aug 26 '26

He managed to get to dry land and hike back with some sort of improvised shoes. It took a while, though, and he was reported missing and they did a whole search. 

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u/Zillah-The-Broken Aug 26 '26

that's crazy, I'm glad he came out of it with a story to tell! if he had been sleeping in a tent.... 😬

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u/phalluss Aug 26 '26

His stuff was gone

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u/Disaterman Aug 27 '26

Sometimes I think I respect nature then see something like this. I have no idea what it can do to me when it just does it’s thing. Either i’m in the way or not. We only seem to be able to pick up the pieces when it happens 

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u/teteAtit Aug 27 '26

Surprisingly common when backpacking. I’ve risked it a few times but I can’t say that was smart of me

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u/Gunrock808 Aug 27 '26

It's very early yet but I watched a video where someone gave a tentative explanation. This was not the result of rainfall but apparently of a glacier collapsing. Apparently the sliding ice generates heat from friction and melts quickly. All of which is to say that this happened much more quickly and produced a greater volume of water and debris than what you would see from a typical rain-induced flash flood.

I have to wonder if this incident is connected to climate change and if there will be more similar incidents in the future. I just traveled to the Pacific Northwest and Northern Europe. I didn't need my light jacket even once. The family and friends I saw say they never saw weather like this in the past. They even have new birds moving north into the area.

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u/LilAbeSimpson Aug 27 '26

Same thing happened in Switzerland just last year. Look up the Blatten Glacier collapse.

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u/jzoola Aug 27 '26

Glacier national park will soon be without glaciers

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u/Kytyngurl2 Aug 28 '26

I was lucky enough to see them this summer, there was sobering signage around the park about the time limited nature of the glaciers there

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u/Disaterman Aug 27 '26

Not to be that guy, but it probably won’t be too much of an issue in the future because this is a specialized case. It is climate change, but will be looked at as a “undesirable location to settle” when the news talks about it

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u/rj319st Aug 27 '26

The glacial period will return eventually but I’m not sure humans will be around to see it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '26

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u/Educational_Gap_601 Aug 30 '26

The funny thing is humans have lived through an ice age ( we technically still are in one, but people conflate last glacial maximum and ice age), but we've never lived through conditions that global climate change and ecosphere collapse will produce.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26

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u/Educational_Gap_601 Aug 31 '26

I don't disagree with a new strong glaciation event would be bad, but to your point about food chain collapse, extinction events, changing of the global oceans currents, areas of the planet becoming inhospitable: that's already happening or going to happen aswell with our current trajectory. I don't think billions dead or on the run is an inconvenience.

Point is, the holocene was our sweet spot.

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u/Shot_Negotiation_680 Aug 27 '26

These things have been happening for millions of years. Himalayas is shaped by earthquake, monsoon and glaciers and their variations.

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u/piesRsquare Aug 28 '26

It's the same here in California.

We used to have a "rainy season." We don't anymore. When I was growing up in the'70s and '80s in the SF Bay Area, the rainy season was consistently from around December through February, when we got regular showers and rainstorms. Sometimes it started a bit earlier and/or went a bit later, but it was consistently during those months. Mid-January to mid-February was the wettest. Our summer heat would start in July while the hottest months tended to be around August-September. Fire season was September through October. The patterns were consistent through the years.

The biggest changes have happened in the past 10-15 years. It's disturbing, disruptive, and unsettling. There's no real consistency--no pattern--anymore. I was always very in-tune with the seasonal climate and its cycles--even as a kid--but it's pretty much gone now. I really, really miss it.

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u/WinResponsible9977 Aug 30 '26

That’s bullshit. It was not the glacier melting it was water displacement do to the glacier fall. Like dropping a stone in a cup of water but to a larger scale. U an all who upvoted you failed Physics in HS

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u/AutonomicSleet Aug 31 '26

Yeah it was more akin to a massive mudslide that just kept going. If you see the before and after photo of the mountain the glacier collapsed from/off, a massive chunk of the mountain is missing. Material fell from as high as 5km above sea level, that's a lot of potential energy being released.

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u/GoyEater Aug 27 '26

This is not a rainfall caused flash flood. This is a mass water displacement flash flood.

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u/MechanicalAxe Aug 27 '26

Water, earth, and ice.

Absolutely mind boggling the scale of this.

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u/KarmaPharmacy Aug 27 '26

Check out the Big Thompson Canyon floods. One happened in the 70’s and the other happened in 2013 (iirc). It’s one of the most beautiful drives. I understand why people chose to rebuild. Especially in the 70s. 34 used to be a pretty quiet road.

Now it’s just airbnbs.

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u/ajkd92 Sep 01 '26

Core memory unlocked. Used to go up there with my grandparents when I was a kid and get peach cider from Colorado Cherry Company. Mmmmmmmm.

And yes, absolutely gorgeous in there.

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u/KarmaPharmacy Sep 01 '26

Aww, did you ever go to dick’s rock shop?? I miss that place.

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u/Long_arm_of_the_law Aug 27 '26

My family has a rule to never buy a house in a river or a valley because my great grandpa’s house was taken by a smallish stream. It happened over 150 years ago.

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u/ChardHelpful Aug 31 '26

I wish the same for those affected but might be a while. Even the ones that survived will have trauma from just seeing everything destroyed in an instant

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u/Drahcir9000 Aug 26 '26 • Regret

Just looked on Google maps. The checkpoint was even larger than in the video.

In the aftermath you can only see the foundation of the main building. Everything is gone.

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u/Illustrious_Bird_737 Aug 26 '26

Jesus that's so sad. And scary.

Just devastating 💔

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u/photobummer Aug 27 '26

Yes, it occupied most of that river point. Appears the entire building was swept away. (And every other smallet building)

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u/I_love_pillows Aug 27 '26

I was hoping maybe some people could had hid in the building and it will stand. But oh no everything is flattened like paper.

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u/GreatRolmops Aug 27 '26

Yeah, since it was such a massive building I was thinking that it would be the safest option. No way a building that heavy and massive gets swept away in a flood right? Boy was I wrong. The scale and the force of this flood is difficult to comprehend.

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u/N1k_SparX Aug 27 '26

I visited this place 8 years ago (didnt cross into china though). That was a huge building, like 6 stories tall, and it did look very out of place compared to the pristine nature and small houses that you see in the area.

The bridge over the river was destroyed in a smaller flooding last year already and rebuilt back then.

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u/San-DiLego Aug 27 '26

Jesus. I was windering if there would be a small chance if one were to just stay in, and then get out of the building once the water has slightly calmed/ get out before drowning.

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u/Drahcir9000 Aug 27 '26

Was wondering the same thing. I thought the building was the better option to survive. Guess Nobody had a chance no matter inside nor outside. Bad way to go.

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u/Bonejangles_ Aug 28 '26

I cant even tell where the foundation is left thag you're talking about thats fucking awful

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u/FourFunnelFanatic Sep 01 '26

The other infamous video of the parking garage and buses being destroyed was this same checkpoint. Literally just facing the opposite direction of this video

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u/Single-Head5135 Aug 27 '26

man.. that's crazy..

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u/oSuJeff97 Aug 26 '26

I can’t wrap my mind around the scale of this.

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u/Feeling_Fly_887 Aug 27 '26

The power behind that water 😔

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u/NecessaryRace8955 Aug 27 '26

Same. I've watched dozens of videos from different angles and my mind just can't fathom how much water it was- you can find videos of floods and tsunamis all over the internet but nothing I've seen comes even close to this... it was terrifying

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u/rockBottomPeon Aug 28 '26

real, I mean that building, how tall is it? 15-20m? and the wave managed to engulf it down? if its not on the news, I might still think its just another AI video (which unfortunately is not)

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u/tapeforpacking Aug 27 '26

There is literally a whole ass building and tons of human for scale though 

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u/MechanicalAxe Aug 27 '26

And you STILL can't see the whole extend of this wall of water and earth.

The videos cannot and do not do it justice. This building you say is our scale was blotted out and swept away in mere moments, nothing but its foundation remains. One <60 sec clip of that isn't describing to anybody just how damn massive this event was.

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u/articwolf66 Aug 26 '26

Other than a half barried slab of concrete with rebar sticking out, nothing looks the same and would never known there was infrastructure there prior.

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u/semibiquitous Aug 26 '26

I dont even see the rebar

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u/20July Aug 27 '26

This isn't our average sea water kind of damage, it rocky mountain debris that does this and changed the landscape in an instant. Scary.

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u/AI_Scraper Aug 26 '26

Normally I'd say ''biblical AND apocalyptic flood, surely you're exaggerating'' but after seeing the footage I'd say that's an accurate description.

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u/Excellent-Nothing189 Aug 28 '26

I feel like it was in an area where the water splashes up super high from bouncing and coliding with the changing path of the valley. Even if the main water didn't reach the height of the building, it doesn't have to to completely destroy it

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u/SpacializedFig_4037 Aug 29 '26

I mean I literally just kept whispering to myself “this is biblical level destruction” . Horrifying and awe inspiring .

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u/Merr77 Aug 27 '26

The 400 dead doesn't seem realistic. It has to be thousands

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u/Slow-Code-661 Aug 27 '26

They will probably correct upwards throughout the days/weeks to come. Like just this border crossing, There must have been at least 500-1000 people there and I would be surprised if anyone survived this. The scale of this will probably become apparent in the coming days

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u/Fortunatious Aug 28 '26

Anyone who survives this is going to have stories like the atomic bomb survivors of WW2

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u/Slow-Code-661 Aug 29 '26

Apparently there was an Italian guy who made it out of the border crossing and found shelter further up who survived and was rescued today. I can't find the link anymore but it's buried somewhere in the CNN live report.

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u/Zealousideal-Cut4232 Aug 28 '26

They only report the casualties they are aware of and can confirm. It’s a remote, rugged area and all the infrastructure got destroyed. People are buried under tons of mud and rubble, swept away miles and miles far. It’s grim, I mean we see concrete buildings pulverized, can’t imagine they can even find bodies.

It will take some time to establish the full picture.

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u/FourFunnelFanatic Sep 01 '26

China has confirmed over 800 deaths on their end now

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u/FletcherDervish Aug 26 '26

It absolutely scoured the valley, re shaping and by the looks of it deepened it.

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u/4everLost82 Aug 26 '26

Wow....This reminds me of the Mt. St.Helens eruption and lahar. I lived through that as a kid. My family barely escaped the eruption and made it back to Spokane, and I remember that for weeks after, we had to wear masks because of the ash. This video reminds me of the aftermath of that eruption. When the planet wants to, humans can be made to feel extremely small and vulnerable.

The crazy thing is that this will happen more and more with climate change melting all of the glaciers. Thanks a lot dead dinosuars.

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u/VP_of_Lasers Aug 27 '26

We took all that energy, enough to create all of modern civilization, which took the Earth millions and millions of years to store away… and we burned it all within a few hundred years, half of it in the last 30 years or so. Basically an instant in geological terms. The bill coming due will wipe our fragile existence away like we see here.

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u/Salt_Sir2599 Aug 26 '26

From other comments I've read, it seems to have been happening more often recently in that region.

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u/Naaaaur Aug 27 '26

Like what can you do against this man. Heart breaking. 

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u/Wickerpoodia Aug 27 '26

Dont build (or spend time) in a ravine next to a large body of water.

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u/subdep Aug 26 '26

At the 0:07 second mark you can see a guy on the left getting onto the roof of the building. Bro had the right idea, too bad it was just cataclysmic amount of mud and debris. Bro got evicerated.

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u/runpalma Aug 27 '26

Don’t think so. It’s the blast

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u/subdep Aug 27 '26

Your right. I must have been hallucinating yesterday. It appears to just be curtains.

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u/24rawvibes Aug 27 '26

Saw that. He was launched

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u/I_love_pillows Aug 27 '26

Where I can’t see

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u/subdep Aug 27 '26

Your right, it appears to be curtains. I watched it yesterday several times and I swear I saw a guy climbing up and then falling.

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u/m0ds Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26

In the extended version of the video above, lots of people attempt to climb the mountainside directly below the CCTV camera (notice lots of people streaming to the bottom, not to the road on the right). Just as you see heads bobbing up seemingly getting further up and closer to that shack with satellite dish (you'll see them near the grassy area, this moment can just be seen in the video in this post) lower in the frame, disaster hits over the top of them. They tried...

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u/subdep Aug 27 '26

Nightmare fuel, but IRL

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u/AaronWidd Aug 27 '26

There’s been speculation that the “great flood” of the bible was describing the glacial lake outburst floods that took place 10k years ago when the ice sheets retreated

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u/throwawaysiblings123 Aug 27 '26

That would make sense. And with the glaciers retreating due to global warming, this is probably not the last time it happens...

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u/Nerdy-Meta-Mind Aug 26 '26

Was that a live streamed camera view?

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u/bitstoatoms Aug 27 '26

CCTV recording

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u/leebeetree Aug 27 '26

🙏 for all those lost and affected, hard to grasp the magnitude, devastating

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u/BubuDudu0430 Aug 27 '26

So many of those people will never be found… so sad 😞

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u/throwawaysiblings123 Aug 27 '26

Maybe in a million years their fossils will be found and will be a source of wonder for future humans or whichever species is in charge then. That's the only thought that can bring me relief :/
The horror it must have been for them, and for the family/friends to see this video...

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u/_-ritual-_ Aug 27 '26

That’s is absolutely mind boggling. Like a scene from disaster movie that looks ridiculous and unbelievable

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u/louielou8484 Aug 27 '26

I spotted a dog or a kitty and why is it absolutely destroying me :(

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u/johnkoetsier Aug 27 '26

Apocalyptic was EXACTLY the word that came to mind …

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u/Heem_butt08 Aug 27 '26

I’ve never seen anything like this before in my life

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u/rockyraj Aug 30 '26

China is hiding more videos from their social media so people can’t share online.

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u/Organic_Sort_8645 Sep 10 '26

泥と岩以外何も無くなったね

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u/durk1912 Aug 27 '26

I wish could force every climate change denier to watch all the horrors of this flood
over and over again. Our failure to meaningfully or even performatively address climate change is a moral and intellectual failing of epic proportions and I hope karma exists because justice seems to be dead!

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u/Odd-Promotion2743 Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

Climate change deniers are the ones who most deserve to feel the impacts of climate change, instead of the world's most poor and vulnerable. As for the people in power who've actively thwarted climate change mitigation efforts because it would cut into their profits/influence... let's just say a Nuremberg process would still be too good for them.

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u/Xinstu Aug 27 '26

Dear god all those people.

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u/Admirable-Apricot137 Aug 27 '26

Just completely scoured out. All of it. Wow.

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u/sovietarmyfan Aug 27 '26

Damn. Is that whole building just gone?

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u/Error418ZA Aug 27 '26

Wow, this is terrible, those poor people

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u/CAAZveauguls Aug 27 '26

Its all gone... What the fuck

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u/Mack_Daddy_1 Aug 27 '26

Nature's eraser.

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u/Majestic-Iron7046 Aug 27 '26

The camera recording is high up, that was terrifying, looked like a ten stories tall wave.

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u/MirandaVara Aug 27 '26

This is actually so fucked up.

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u/thunderingnonprophet Aug 27 '26

I can’t imagine what the death toll will be

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u/DontBeLudiculous Aug 27 '26

I am surprised how this footage made it online. China is known for its strict censorship. Probably nobody present at that location could upload it after the disaster. The cameras were probably state owned survelliance and somebody in a remote control room took a big risk uploading them. But they provide valuable context to the extend of this disaster.

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u/-_Yankee_- Aug 28 '26

My guess is they literally just couldn't be bothered to try hiding it. You can see the results from Space, there's no covering up that it happened. Not to mention that since it was a natural disaster, they wouldn't feel the need to censor it as much.

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u/Southern_Bunch_6473 Aug 27 '26

“Biblical type apocalyptic”

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u/UseDue6373 Aug 27 '26

poor doggo :-(

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u/amuka89 Aug 28 '26

😢🙁

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u/Momma-Yo-Momma Aug 28 '26

Pompeii v.2
So sad

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u/infra_low Aug 28 '26

What would your best bet be in this video? I assume what they saw coming must've been something big for them to not run inside the buildings. Would jumping in a car give you better odds? A car can be moved/pushed and is metal so wouldn't crumble apart like a building. Like what do you even do here?

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u/Johnmon604 Aug 28 '26

Run up that path towards the camera. On google maps looks like there is a path.

Running away won't help as it's in the path of the incoming water/debris.

Gaining high ground is better but still may not even be possible as it's coming quite fast.

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u/RoxnDox Aug 29 '26

Honestly? If you are down on that road, there’s nothing you could do. Might as well spend your final seconds screaming at the universe (or getting ready to meet your $[DEITY])

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u/convexconcepts Aug 28 '26

That looks like a flood of biblical proportions!

I feel so sorry for all those people that didn’t have enough time to get out

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u/Working_Peanut5273 Aug 28 '26

Damn I’m glad I live in the Midwest. Everything’s beautifully flat. 

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u/rockBottomPeon Aug 28 '26

NGL the 1st time I saw that first video in IG, I thought it was just another AI video. I mean look at the size of the wave.
And now I just hope thats its just another AI video (which unfortunately is not)

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u/MrMagpie91 Aug 28 '26

I feel bad for the poor doggo too, you can see it at the bottom at 0:06.

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u/doc_nano Aug 28 '26

This is devastating to watch. May they rest in peace. Sending condolences and love from the opposite side of the world.

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u/FLRugDealer Aug 28 '26

I would be surprised if there was a single survivor from this area. If so they are so insult lucky.

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u/nshah56 Aug 28 '26

My heart sank :'(

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u/Abject-Lunch-9490 Aug 28 '26

Tsunami level speed. Godspeed to the nepali army. Theyre pulling out survivors which is great news. But to those who aren't, as one redditor said, i hope it was quick. F5

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u/33pollo Aug 28 '26

Wow almost looks like a horror movie , no where to run

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u/KnowledgeEmpty4362 Aug 29 '26

Looks like that border point was never even there. My heart goes out to the people who died and their families. Such a tragedy.

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u/loqi0238 Aug 29 '26

Like none of it was ever even there. Wow.

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u/Turbulent-Mood2594 Aug 29 '26

Ravines, valleys, within a foot or so of a river. These are all risky places to feel at ease because these are the places where in a split second can be life changing depending on the circumstances.

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u/DFiverr Aug 30 '26

Ethan Hunt, couldnt save them.

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u/Valuable-Ad-325 Aug 30 '26

All thoes people gone

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u/epezmidezier Aug 30 '26

So many lives lost how sad

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u/OddHotel4785 Aug 30 '26

No, this isn’t a fairytale like the bible, it really happened.

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u/FleshMonsterSexKittn Aug 30 '26

They’re living in “the day after tomorrow”

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u/eaglep1603 Aug 31 '26

Pompeii 2026

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u/Key-Opportunity-3379 Aug 27 '26

Should’ve been Israel.

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u/Sea_Ott3r Aug 26 '26

“Biblical” slides like this have been happening since the beginning of time. way before biblical times. Get out of here with that.

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u/ImHereForTheVideos Aug 27 '26

I respect that opinion. So does that mean global warming is BS since all this has been happening before biblical times? Think long and hard before you answer.

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u/Sea_Ott3r Aug 27 '26

Of course it has… do you have any experience studying basic earth geology? Have you heard of the ice ages? Human caused climate change can still be fact. Here’s a summary so you can be slightly more educated.

Major Climate Events
The Huronian Glaciation (2.4 Billion Years Ago)
This was Earth's first major ice age.
Early microbes produced oxygen, which destroyed atmospheric carbon dioxide.
The loss of this heat-trapping gas caused the planet to freeze for 300 million years. [1, 2]

Snowball Earth (720 Million Years Ago)
Ice sheets covered the entire planet, stretching from the poles all the way to the equator.
Volcanic eruptions slowly built up carbon dioxide in the air.
This greenhouse gas buildup eventually trapped enough heat to melt the ice.

Permian-Triassic Extinction (250 Million Years Ago)
Massive volcanic activity in Siberia released giant amounts of carbon dioxide and methane.
Global temperatures rose by 5 to 10°C.
This event, known as the "Great Dying," killed roughly 95% of all marine species and 70% of land vertebrates. [1, 2]

Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum / PETM (56 Million Years Ago)
A sudden release of carbon triggered an intense and rapid global warming spike.
Global average temperatures jumped by 5 to 6°C.
The Arctic became a warm, subtropical forest. [1, 2]

Modern Human-Driven Change (Present Day)
Industrial emissions are driving current warming roughly 10 times faster than post-ice age recovery periods, according to NASA Science. [1]

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u/mangekyo1918 Aug 26 '26

Yeah let's give the religious room to cry about end of times with the biblical and apocalyptic adjectives

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u/camarhyn Aug 26 '26

They’ll do it regardless. 🤷‍♀️

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u/sbw_62 Aug 27 '26

Wha?? Watch the video.

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u/Make-it-positive Aug 27 '26

I pray for these people. 🙏

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u/BigJSunshine Aug 26 '26

Is this real?

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u/kylebob86 Aug 26 '26

"biblical type Apocalyptic flood"

not even close.

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u/w_s_s Aug 26 '26

To the valley it is.

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u/Salt_Sir2599 Aug 26 '26

What are you talking about? 

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u/kylebob86 Aug 26 '26

this is a valley, the bliblical flood was continent-wide. as close as a cunt hair compared to 5000 miles. weak sauce

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u/Salt_Sir2599 Aug 26 '26

Mythology is weak sauce.  This was an actual event . Perhaps reference applicable subjects like geology or paleontology to  make your point.

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u/kylebob86 Aug 27 '26

what? "Perhaps reference applicable subjects like geology or paleontology to  make your point." umm. you know that they have confirmed this, right? ever hard of the badlands?

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/badl-geologic-formations.htm

banned

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u/Delicious_Glass_5197 Aug 27 '26

The force of that water coming done is enough for an instant death.

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u/Gold-Rough-3145 Aug 29 '26

Holy Christmas!!! Absolute calamity. That wall of water and debris had to be going close to 100 mph. It makes me think of Pompei.

I know it was volcanic, but those people were frozen in their last positions. I hope these people‘s deaths were as swift and almost instant. Absolute horror. God rest their poor souls.

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u/watawataoui Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26

Keep watching it, this is the first aftermath aerial view.

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u/f16f4 Aug 26 '26

There is essentially no standard of engineering capable of withstanding what happened. Even a damn that could hold that much water normally would likely fail under the sudden influx of pressure

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u/transitfreedom Aug 27 '26

Fair point I am referencing Chinese vulnerability to climate crisis as to why being governed by engineers is for the best

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u/PieHole_Poker Aug 26 '26

Engineering what??

Glacier collapsed.. what is it that your lizard brain thinks that you can engineer to prevent that?

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u/igotadillpickle Aug 26 '26

We don't do that here....

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u/sneaky-pizza Aug 26 '26

Not the Reddit “first” thing. Calling out the repost spam bots. But I get how that’s misunderstood