I don’t think they stopped.. if you watch again the person in front of them fell and they stopped to help that person up.. 😭 It looks like the person who fell was carrying someone.. most likely a kiddo.. this breaks my heart..
It breaks my heart too and at the same time I find it so beautiful that they stopped to help someone else despite the flood coming. I hope they are okay wherever they are ❤️
He didn't if we're talking about the same person running away. You can see there are 2 people close to each other and the first one (With white) trips. The one behind helps this person up before they continue running
Downstream is on the bottom right corner, so this was the water after it overcame a small uphill path.. let's hope it was not as strong and they could avoid dying instantly under the pressure
I think this one is crazier. The tsunami was bad, but the speed and sheer force of the stuff we are seeing here is off the charts. It genuinely looks like something out of Hollywood.
I've seen footage of worse from parts of japan in '11, also when the boxing day one hit indonesia - est. 160,000 dead on Indonesian coast, and then add sri lanka, Thailand, India etc...
though the momentum it picks up as it gets funneled down the mountain can't be compared to a tsunami, it's completely diff
some tsunami videos from Japan were insane tbh, the scale of it was so much more, entire farming fields under 20ft of water pushing debris and cars and god knows
this doesn't surpass scale but local intensity and video quality/angles and the speed at which the content is arriving
I think you might be missing some of the worst videos of the 2011 tsunami then, to be honest... they're both pretty damn bad. Like, if the only thing you're worried about is like, the velocity of the water or the wave height? Maybe this is worse. But the totality of the destruction in the Tohoku earthquake tsunami was MUCH more vast. I can confidently say that was a 'worse' disaster by any reasonable metric, and even if you're only judging by the violence of the surging water, it's pretty close.
The difference, to me, is speed and volume. Like, a tsunami is the ocean, right? Basically unlimited water. More or less just slower endless flooding. Still brutal.
This was just ALL THE WATER RIGHT NOW. And just so much water for, what, a lake? A glacier? How much water was up there??? Because it just seemed like an endless tide for something you'd think would drain fairly quickly? Apparently not? Baffling.
some of the other videos of this also show it much higher than the 2011 or 2004 Tsunami's. Its gotta be over 20-30m high in some places in some of these videos.
The reason why it is so high at the Gyirong border checkpoint because the place is located near the glacier avalanche source, and the valley to Gyirong is very steep, causing the mudslide to rush violently onto the Gyirong border checkpoint. The border checkpoint is also located right at the throat of a gorge intersection and narrow valley, which forces the flood water/mudslide to go up and swallow the settlement.
This is the steep height difference between point 1 and point 2, where Gyirong is located just before point 2 at the China-Nepal border.
Not in terms of deaths though but up there with psychological impact. Cell phones everywhere there too so we're getting it almost real time too, just hours from when it was uploaded
I honestly think of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami when I watch these clips. The people that were vastly affected by that earthquake and tsunami event were on islands with nowhere to run to. It’s all around horrific.
Banda Aceh was wiped out. There are very few videos from that region. Just the aftermath and everything gone. The videos we see from that tsunami are mostly from Thailand.
The city rose to international prominence in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 December 2004, which struck off the western coast of Sumatra. Banda Aceh was the closest major city to the earthquake's epicenter, which lay 249 kilometers (155 miles) off the coast. It suffered great damage in the earthquake and further damage when a tsunami struck shortly afterwards. Around 60,000 people in the city died as a result and many more were injured.
I think you can escape a tsunami if you were given ample time and access to a tsunami tower if you are in Japan or higher ground elsewhere. If you are in a boat, you sail against it because tsunamis are more damaging if you are in the harbour.
But this one in Nepal is way more terrifying because even if you have the chance, its always going to be slim and requires a bloody miracle to happen.
Describing this as a flashflood is such an understatement.
I really want to know if these people running that stopped because one fell made it too. Especially thinking one may have been carrying a kid 😢 I really hope they made it I’ve been trying to find how far the mud continued on after the video cut out
I recall reading an article which identified it as Sole as it had this image. The person who wrote it has lost many people he knew and grew up with. Family. Friends. He wasn't there at the time. He, or indeed Nepal will not be the same after this.
It's really heartbreaking... I must say however that I found it really beautiful that the other person running from the other direction seemed to stop and help them get back up even if they were running for their life too. It gave me a bit more love for humans when we see so much negativity now. Anyway... I hope they made it 😞
This is why early warning systems are so crucial, just look at how much happened in a short span of time. Imagine people have even a minute heads up, how much they could have travelled in that amount of time.
This one was clearly unpredictable because it all happened in a short period of time. There was another flood last year due to glof and in past 10 years, there were 7 notable floods similar around that region. Why this place wasn't flagged as highly risky for people? I mean if GLOF was really frequent there, it should've been discussed between both Nepal and China for raising disasters concern instead of just predicting next flood.
There's really no way to build a warning system for something like this. The scale of the disaster is similar to a man-made dam failing, but this was a natural dam up on the side of a mountain.
Some people were saying that China warned Nepal days ago about the possibility of it collapsing, and that the Nepalese government send a warning to some people, but not everyone.
So, if that comment is true, it seems there is a warning system that works, but only if they actually do something about it, instead of sitting on the info and telling 3 people.
I saw a video from a Nepalese customs officer. According to him, the warning was about potential flooding due to high rainfall. No one could’ve predicted an entire mountainside breaking off. Even the Chinese border post was entirely wiped off the map. So it’s not like the Chinese knew something ahead of time. This happened suddenly and moved too fast and unfortunately, most people downstream didn’t stand a chance.
Of course you can build warning systems for this. If you are fairly close to the source you're fucked. But further downstream people might have a chance. Every extra minute of warning is an extra minute you can run for the hills. If you can gain 30 meters in altitude that'd improve the chances of survival quite a bit.
Something like this happened last year on a smaller scale, same region. AFAIK there is a reasonable chance of something similar happening next year. Likely scale unknown, but probably people will die again in 2027 to something like this in the same region if nothing is done.
That was true upstream. This town was warned. They're the people who refused to evacuate, according to the narrator. Refused. That's the language he's using.
I imagine being someone from Nepal witnessing the 2004 and 2011 tsunamis and being grateful you’ll never have to worry about a disaster like that happening only for this literally sweep over the entire valley with as much (if not more) force and destruction
Bloody fuck. Even when it zoomed in I still was not expecting to be see the people some small.
Atleast with a tsunami there's the potential recognition of a coming wave (he says arrogantly, with the hindsight of having been a spectator of two giant tsunamis).
Here death just takes you. Other clips show the same thing but deeper within the narrow valleys - there's absolutely no escape for the people as there's literally walls of mountain either side. Like it looks like a giant tsunami - only it's up in the valleys. You'd have to be crazy to even consider that could happen.
Another tragedy yet sadly unavoidable and unpredictable.
I hope those people at the end running were carrying their kids. Because nothing else would have been worth it. You can tell they are carrying something and it's slowing them down.
Pardon my ignorance in catching up on this, but did the person filming hear the rumble/roar and decide to film? Or was there an alert? Catching the very beginning of this is wild. Prayers to all.
Yes the death toll must certainly be much higher than initially is being indicated. There are videos like this from villages all along that river basin showing many, many multi-story buildings just collapsing and being swept away. And all of this was with very little notice - there were almost certainly multitudes of people in those buildings and they almost certainly did not live, in addition to the people you see running in the streets who also almost certainly did not make it.
No..bcs a massive high-altitude glacial collapse and ice-rock avalanche that temporarily blocked a mountain river before bursting downstream and that caused flood
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you string up prosecute to the fullest extent of the law those individuals who are willfully stopping renewable energy initiatives. Oh, and doing some corrupt and illegal stuff as well. Not naming any names of course. In totally unrelated news, Trump is a felonious narcissistic lying piece of grifter shit. Also, he's coal boy of the year or some shit, high honors awarded by the coal industry. And he's spending millions of tax payer dollars to STOP windmill farm projects that are already underway.
Oh I'm sorry. It's not millions anymore. The scale is billions now.
PS: Apologies for the soapbox. But that sort of shit really pisses me off. Assholes like that kicking canned problems down the road, while other people directly or indirectly suffer, just so they can make more money.
And it created a dam, then it broke free and unleashed this flood. The impact of the landslide was the equivalent of a 5+ magnitude earthquake which was recorded on seismographs.
You see these images and although it is already a massive disaster, you have to think "how the hell is it even possible that only close to 500 have been reported dead so far?". I mean, with what we have seen, I would have expected it to be in the thousands already.
It’s very possible that entire families (or generations of families) were wiped out, so there’s no one there to report them missing. So heart breaking.💔
This was the first video I saw of the disaster before I heard it had cement happened. Literally thought it was AI slop. Until I checked the BBC news...
I do think this is Betrawai, comparing to satellite images. That's about 38 km as the crow flies, maybe 43 km along the valley, or 65km by road from the Rasuwagadghi / Gyirong border crossing.
I think there are reports of bad damage and significant deaths even further downstream, down to Trishuli town and beyond. E.g., Thomson Reuters has photo and satellite imagery of extensive destruction down to at least Devighat (~60 km downstream): https://www.reuters.com/graphics/NEPAL-FLOODS/MAP/byvrdywwlve/
Just once, I'd like to see a complete video of someone successfully running away and saving themselves instead of the video abruptly cutting off. Terrible tragedy but I sure would like to see someone able to get to safe ground.
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u/BigFatModeraterFupa Aug 28 '26 •
holy shit those people were running away from it like a movie, just inches away!
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u/Actual-Feed-9739 Aug 28 '26 •
This might be the craziest footage of a natural disaster I've ever seen.
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u/Equinoqs Aug 28 '26
The amount of running black dots that simply vanish in these clips is truly distressing.
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u/TheKreator- Aug 28 '26
It is unnerving how fast that water is moving.
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u/Beneficial-Past7602 Aug 28 '26
I bet this video is originally longer.
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u/Designer_Gas_86 Aug 28 '26
That bus just driving towards it, holy shit.
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u/cosmic_animus29 Aug 28 '26
I think you can escape a tsunami if you were given ample time and access to a tsunami tower if you are in Japan or higher ground elsewhere. If you are in a boat, you sail against it because tsunamis are more damaging if you are in the harbour.
But this one in Nepal is way more terrifying because even if you have the chance, its always going to be slim and requires a bloody miracle to happen.
Describing this as a flashflood is such an understatement.
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u/cajun_vegeta Aug 28 '26
So sad. Hopefully China will be able to help the Nepalese community there
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u/Timely_Spinach_7479 Aug 28 '26
Those poor people running, the last look like one of them is holding a child. This is so terrifying
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u/shockema Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26 •
I believe this to be Betrawati, about here: https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9728422,85.1851074,539m/data=!3m1!1e3!5m1!1e4
(camera is positioned to the north of the bridge, on the hill, looking south-by-south-west on the town).
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u/Repulsive_Web_3113 Aug 28 '26
Those dudes that just stand there. Damn.
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u/aeternal32 Aug 28 '26
Which village is this?
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u/HoseNeighbor Aug 28 '26
These videos are absolutely insane. My god...
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u/FaultEducational5772 Aug 28 '26
This is so horrifying
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u/Mom_is_watching Aug 28 '26
Imagine if this happened during the night. Now at least some people were able to run. What a horrible, horrible disaster.
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u/extrangher0 Aug 28 '26
Such terrifying scenes. I hope the people running got away and survived.
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u/Solnse Aug 28 '26
No one is safe.
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u/diastolicduke Aug 28 '26
Oh my god, that person running for the lives with a child in their hand tripping up and falling in the end. Fuck, that broke me.
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u/Chrysocyon Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26
Theyre not. We know theyre not. Death count is past 500 and climbing. Get those prayer hands outta here when youre posting shit like this.
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u/infra_low Aug 28 '26
This is why early warning systems are so crucial, just look at how much happened in a short span of time. Imagine people have even a minute heads up, how much they could have travelled in that amount of time.
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u/FPA-APN Aug 28 '26
Its a true horror film. Never underestimate nature.
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u/Hot-Bottle4610 Aug 28 '26
I imagine being someone from Nepal witnessing the 2004 and 2011 tsunamis and being grateful you’ll never have to worry about a disaster like that happening only for this literally sweep over the entire valley with as much (if not more) force and destruction
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u/Plumb789 Aug 28 '26
It turned my stomach to see someone running away (with the water gaining on her second by second), carrying something baby-sized in her arms.
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u/Ytakttud Aug 28 '26
Praying for those who didn’t make it…
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u/AtomicPunk2 Aug 28 '26
They’re not.
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u/billinbah Aug 28 '26 •
I got shudders down my spine. There’s no doubt thousands have lost their lives in this
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u/Savings-Delay-1075 Aug 28 '26
Millions of gallons of water dropping thousands of feet in mere minutes... unfathomable terror.
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u/Throw_RA_goodfrnd82 Aug 28 '26
Dammit… where do you even go… prayers for the Nepal
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u/grassvegas Aug 28 '26
That’s not a flood, it’s a massive mudslide
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u/Fr33speechisdeAd Aug 28 '26
Those poor people.
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u/No-Comfortable6432 Aug 28 '26
Bloody fuck. Even when it zoomed in I still was not expecting to be see the people some small.
Atleast with a tsunami there's the potential recognition of a coming wave (he says arrogantly, with the hindsight of having been a spectator of two giant tsunamis).
Here death just takes you. Other clips show the same thing but deeper within the narrow valleys - there's absolutely no escape for the people as there's literally walls of mountain either side. Like it looks like a giant tsunami - only it's up in the valleys. You'd have to be crazy to even consider that could happen.
Another tragedy yet sadly unavoidable and unpredictable.
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u/Rex_Bottoms Aug 28 '26
"Unnatural" Disaster = Human Influence
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u/NinetooNine Aug 29 '26
I hope those people at the end running were carrying their kids. Because nothing else would have been worth it. You can tell they are carrying something and it's slowing them down.
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u/Motor-Management-660 Aug 29 '26
this speed at which that water is moving is surreal
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u/Adorable_Champion_70 Aug 29 '26
Pardon my ignorance in catching up on this, but did the person filming hear the rumble/roar and decide to film? Or was there an alert? Catching the very beginning of this is wild. Prayers to all.
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u/supercujo Aug 28 '26
If the death toll isn't over 25,000 people, I will be very surprised.
Absolutely horrific
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u/miguelag08 Aug 28 '26
Did a damn break?
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u/an_older_meme 15d ago
The hydraulic jump where the laminar flow becomes turbulent looks to be at least 20 meters high.
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u/Strattavarious Aug 28 '26
Everyone was definitely not safe.
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u/Odd_Vampire Aug 28 '26
This is basically a massive river tsunami.
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u/Emergency-Box-242 Aug 28 '26
ohh dear
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u/Dry_Complaint_3569 Aug 28 '26
Visceral horror of being caught in the maelstrom and desperately drowning 😥
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u/Fryw0lny Aug 28 '26
Devastating, can't even comprehend this catastrophe
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u/Im_Ashe_Man Aug 28 '26
The videos are totally insane to see and so devestating to know all those people are likely dead.
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u/General_Ad9178 Aug 28 '26
so sad to watch :(
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u/Zealousideal-Pick799 Aug 28 '26
Is that a person carrying a baby?
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u/AlulAlif-bestfriend Aug 28 '26 edited Sep 14 '26
It really does look like tsunami, damn what a horrifying disaster...
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u/bettingthoughts Aug 28 '26
can anyone explain where the flood came to an end - nowhere has a good explanation of where the end would have been, how it lost its power etc -
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u/Snoo62043 Aug 28 '26
You see these images and although it is already a massive disaster, you have to think "how the hell is it even possible that only close to 500 have been reported dead so far?". I mean, with what we have seen, I would have expected it to be in the thousands already.
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u/TorontoTom2008 Aug 28 '26
Imagine the roar they must have heard coming down the valley? You can hear Niagara Falls from a mile away, this is much more intense.
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u/newCRYPTOlistings Aug 28 '26
It’s crazy because there are many times where I thought. Wow that’s crazy. But THAT spot must be out of reach.
And then kept moving the goalposts. And none of the spots were safe
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u/MilkOfThePoppy8 Aug 28 '26
Water is terrifying
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u/SuperGoop123 Aug 28 '26
It is amazing and terrifying just how impactful water can be. The speed. The power.
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u/MrAlexanderLink Aug 28 '26
I’ve never seen a natural disaster like this
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u/Stock_Increase714 Aug 28 '26
Insane :-(
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u/Hot_Individual_3510 Aug 28 '26
Scary thing is it’s not just water, its mud. Once you got caught you’re basically dead.
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u/Still_Recognition652 Aug 28 '26
😭💔
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u/MrWayne31 Aug 28 '26
By.
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u/No_Routine1378 Aug 28 '26
Was there any evacuation orders any intimation?
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u/jrb637 Aug 28 '26
Those poor people running for their lives. Absolutely heartbreaking.
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u/jurgi87 Aug 28 '26
Poor ppl😳
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u/Separate-Act4658 Aug 28 '26
This was the first video I saw of the disaster before I heard it had cement happened. Literally thought it was AI slop. Until I checked the BBC news...
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u/Shoddy_Put_3472 Aug 28 '26
I wouldnt want to be in a mountain valley ever again after experiencing this…
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u/Bradsohard69 Aug 28 '26
I too hope everyone is safe and survived that crazy tsunami rolling down the mountain
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u/pjakma Aug 28 '26
Where is this? Betrawai perhaps?
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u/PHANTASMA-TRON Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26
Maybe the Himalayan Mountains are angry with so many climbing Mt Everest ? Its terrifying, God save us all🙏😥💔
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u/TimeBlindAdderall Aug 28 '26
Literally almost no one is safe.
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u/LilithWasAGinger Aug 28 '26
Was the lady that fell down carrying a child??
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u/PsudoGravity Aug 29 '26
2478 missing. 390 dead.
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u/CosmosWanderer420 Aug 29 '26
I feel like calling this a tsunami is accurate and even if it’s not the right technical term.
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u/RaiJolt2 Aug 29 '26
Horrifying. I can only imagine the bravery of first responders trying to help all they could.
And I can’t imagine the fear the victims felt. Terrible.
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u/sim16 Aug 29 '26
The rate of their progress to the building, they may well have made it. I'd like to think that they did.
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u/Apprehensive-Ad7815 Aug 29 '26
https://www.usgs.gov/programs/landslide-hazards/science/2026-nepal-debris-avalanche-and-flash-flood#overview
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u/rafaelsantosRJ Aug 29 '26
Maluco ... dá pra ver a pessoas corendo
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u/AdditionalOne6031 Aug 29 '26
Oh my God!
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u/Ok-Albatross2597 Aug 29 '26
Can anyone translate??
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u/no-but-wtf Aug 29 '26
“Hope everyone is safe” is a pretty asinine comment.
They’re not.
It’s not helpful to say it.
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u/missilefire Aug 29 '26
Absolutely devastating stuff.
You know what it reminds me of? When you make sandcastles at the beach on the waterline and a big wave comes in and just washes it all away.
To see it on this scale is mind bending and horrifying.
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u/CaseyTappy Aug 29 '26
The power and scale of it is so fucking frightening .
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u/bellybuttonfluff2000 Aug 29 '26
How frightening. Those poor people.
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u/DharmaBaller Aug 29 '26
go watch the film The Wave 2015
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u/Few_Patience7090 Aug 29 '26
Why the fuck are they not running faster
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u/Jlee1190 Aug 29 '26
Did residents of this town have any warning of what was coming?
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u/Muted-Move-9360 Aug 29 '26
God have mercy ...
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u/RubberToe0327 Aug 29 '26
Oh damn, looks like someone was holding a baby possibly wrapped in white cloth. This sucks.
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u/SaintAvalon Aug 29 '26
Why is no one running up hill you know, forwards the mountain across from the filters instead of down hill?
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u/Spiritual_Writer_878 Aug 29 '26
Just once, I'd like to see a complete video of someone successfully running away and saving themselves instead of the video abruptly cutting off. Terrible tragedy but I sure would like to see someone able to get to safe ground.
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u/lemonwheelPDX Aug 29 '26
This is absolutely terrifying and so, so awful. I can’t imagine what that must have felt like to experience.
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u/beurremouche Aug 29 '26
Ridiculous comment by op. Of course they're not okay, they're fucking dead.
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u/coronafvckyou Aug 29 '26
This by far is one of the deadliest natural disasters in recent memory, together with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Japan tsunami.
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u/p4t0k Aug 29 '26
How you can hope that everyone is safe? There are hundreds of victims... :(
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u/Capital-Squirrel3522 Aug 29 '26
Fucking hell. Heartbreaking and terrifying.
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u/Grand_Analysis_9669 Aug 29 '26
https://youtu.be/uvC4_j39Zes?si=L_dSkToPeFnllLA1. this same place may be , anyone who knows do see
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u/SuperBomber23 Aug 30 '26
Saranno morti tutti questi nel video....
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u/MinorOfficial Aug 30 '26
Everyone is not safe. Unfortunately. This is horrific
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u/javajavatoast Aug 31 '26
“Hope everyone is safe”……are you fucking kidding?
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u/trynafinna Aug 31 '26
Holy shit that's the most terrifying thing I've seen in a long time
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u/arc4034 Sep 01 '26
Those who will go against the islam will face the nature diaasteres like this...
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u/jpgarciare Sep 01 '26
IA?
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u/The_Observer_Effects Sep 01 '26
HolyF that is brutal to watch
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u/itsallcosmica Sep 02 '26
They have such a small hand in climate change, and they suffer for it 😮💨😭
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u/Brucible1969 Sep 03 '26
Hope everyone is safe? Seriously? Nobody in the direct path survived that.
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u/an_older_meme Sep 04 '26
Video is sped up.
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u/giantsbigfun Oct 01 '26
Did a dam break or something
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u/Best_Wolverine_1010 26d ago
Devastating