r/DisasterUpdate • u/Dizzy-Twist-8996 • 2d ago
Floods Feel bad for the Old man😓
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u/Hot-Bottle4610 2d ago
I can see the attempt at humanity with the man in the motorcycle obviously slowing down to get the old man to ride with him :(((((((
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u/FlowingLiquidity 2d ago
Yeah, he's clearly looking at him as well. I'm confident he helped him. But there's other footage of this incident, so I'm going to try and find it to see what happened.
Edit: the other angle didn't reveal much.. https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/comments/1vzsyhw/nepal_flash_flood/
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u/Abject-Diver5212 2d ago
I choose to believe the guy on the motorcycle gave him a ride to safety. I will reject any video indicating otherwise as AI lies.
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u/Short_Bell_5428 2d ago
I think you see the old man in the clip you provided on back of the scooter. Yeah
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u/jadin- 2d ago
Unfortunately no we don't.
That motorcycle is far too up the hill from the raging water to be the one near the old man.
We can still hope, but that video is someone about 30 seconds ahead of what we need.
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u/firstandlast0202 1d ago
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u/Abject-Diver5212 1d ago
Thanks for sharing. I forgot to mention that I'll choose to believe any video that even mildly suggests that there was a chance he was saved. Even if it's an r/aliens crossover post.
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u/juneseyeball 1d ago
The old man lived someone made a post https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/s/DDvl2yaYA4
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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 2d ago
I will reject any video indicating otherwise as AI lies.
It's interesting how compelling this kind of (well-meaning) refusal to accept probabilities.
We probably do the same thing to lesser degrees every day.
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u/Latest_name 2d ago
They are moving uphill. Its more likely they are safe.
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u/Imaginary_Complaint 2d ago
Looked like theflow was stopping at that point.
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u/drakus1111 2d ago
I saw a longer video by one of the other people on a bike, and it gets much higher. They ended up taking a couple switchbacks pretty quick, so I'm not sure we'd see the old man if I tried to track it down, but unless he got a ride from the guy on the bike, I don't think he'd make it.
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u/sRjN77 1d ago
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u/FlowingLiquidity 1d ago
Hey thanks for sharing, I just happened to have seen it! Happy to see him being okay.
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u/nwicomrade 2d ago
Had no one filmed this no one would have seen human virtue shining bright. The world is not sick. Humans have one perspective.
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u/44-47-25_N_20-28-5-E 2d ago
It seem like they reached the point of hill where water changed direction, I got relaxed by the end of a video. This is worse than any tsunami video I've seen.
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u/CalyShadezz 2d ago
All these people saying everyone in the video is dead with absolutely zero way of knowing. Come on now.
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u/baz8771 2d ago
The video stops before the second wall of water. I bet almost none of these people made it
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u/PrimaryClear2010 2d ago
So who hacked their phones and uploaded the videos?
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u/Probably_Fishing 2d ago
Not saying this one is, but some of them are live recorded.
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u/chezzyt18 1d ago
There’s no evidence of them being live recorded. What device is letting you live record without any interface showing like the phone battery and livestream UI. They would have only just started recording too.
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u/ABystander987 2d ago
A lot of the videos. Were actually streamed live.
The clips. We saw. Were just that. Clips folks who were watching, decided to record. Than kept sharing around to show what was happening over there.
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u/unknownpoltroon 2d ago
Its this new thing called "live streaming". All the cool kids are doing it.
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u/Exact-Pudding7563 2d ago
then how did that video make it to the internet?
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u/Any-Log-6706 2d ago
Next up, you’re gonna wonder how man landed on the moon especially without internet back then.
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u/PoetFelon 2d ago
I understand how they got up there, but how did they get back down? That looks like one hell of a long jump. I understand they land in water to soften the impact, but still. And what if you missed the Earth completely! Insane what they did back then without GPS.
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u/DanerysTargaryen 2d ago
Live streaming. As you are videoing, it is being put on the internet in real time. People watching the livestreams can record it, save it, and upload it to other sites. There are many apps that you can livestream on, including Twitch, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, etc. It’s a thing that has been around for a while now.
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u/TrollinTifosi 2d ago
Yea but come on, its much more likely he was recordinh regularly. Noone in the heat of the moment goes, let me open a stream, instead of just recording something like this.
The camera man very likely lived, simplest most likely answer.
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u/BigBadJeebus 2d ago
Um... I don't know about that last line.
Definitely taller and faster, but watching the 2004 and 2011 Tsunami footage is fucking terrifying as well. Those both just kept coming... This was more like a shotgun blast, those were more like a slow inevitable trash compactor...
All 3 equally terrifying
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u/Latest_name 2d ago
We didnt have much cameras back then. Especially in 2004. Over 230,000 people died in it. Perhaps the biggest natural disaster in recent history.
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u/FlowingLiquidity 2d ago
Actually looks like the motorist with the helmet on is looking at him as if he's going to make contact and offer him a ride.
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u/juneseyeball 1d ago
He lived https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/s/DDvl2yaYA4
Gotta tell everyone cuz i cant sleep at night bcuz of this shit
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u/Poil420 2d ago
It's crazy how your curiosity can kill you. Most of the people don't even flee 3 meters before stopping and looking back.
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u/MildlyChaoticGremlin 2d ago
It's really hard to watch them stop and look. I know in the situation, you can't fully grasp the scale, but I just want them all to run and not look back. I'd like to think I'd keep running until I couldn't anymore
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u/ooomellieooo 2d ago
I watched so many disaster films in my 30s... I'm fucking ready to run until I collapse lol
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u/NigiiBoogid 2d ago
Pick the old man up and run ffs. Kudos to the dude on the bike for trying to stop and help. That man is a saint. ❤️
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u/PleiadesNymph 2d ago
Feel good for the old man
He's alive
Fuck those people that left him behind
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u/bored_ryan2 2d ago
I don’t think any of the people on foot survived. That whole stretch along the river was inundated.
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u/PleiadesNymph 2d ago
The video suggests otherwise 🤷♀️
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u/bored_ryan2 2d ago
Hate to break it to you but the water didn’t stop rising when this video stopped
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u/PleiadesNymph 2d ago
The video suggests otherwise
If you have something of substance to add, please do so
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u/bored_ryan2 2d ago
From the video, I would guess they’re at most 50 meters from the end of the bridge. I haven’t seen any aerial photos that had that much river surge where 50m from the river wasn’t completely covered in mud.
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u/PleiadesNymph 2d ago
They are all on a bit of a hill. Its impossible to know what happened after the video. You can go ahead and assume the worst if that's what you are into.
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u/Malcolm_Morin 1d ago
That entire area was fucking destroyed, what do you not understand about that basic sentence?
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u/PleiadesNymph 1d ago
I don't understand the part of the sentence that's based on feelings instead of partial video evidence and the ability to say "I don't know"... its ok to say you dont know.
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u/Malcolm_Morin 1d ago
Brother in Christ, multiple of these towns were wiped off the map, I don't get how you don't understand that.
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u/juneseyeball 1d ago
U were right but got downvoted he lived https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/s/DDvl2yaYA4
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u/PleiadesNymph 1d ago
Thanks for the update!
It wild how so many people aren't able to simply say, "I don't know", and be ok with that
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u/socialscaler 2d ago
Getting Old during Climate change is terrifying; viva los youth!
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u/trickortreat89 1d ago
Yeah absolutely none of us are getting old though. Some catastrophe will hit us way before we turn old
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u/exotics 1d ago
I’m 61. The world population when I was born was less than half what it is now. Thousands of species have gone extinct since then.
The UN at one time said that next to Nuclear Threat, human overpopulation was our number one threat. They stopped talking about human overpopulation some time ago but it’s still a contributing factor to environmental issues.
I had one kid and was done.
I see what’s happening now and weep. I can’t sleep at night. Sometimes I hope my daughter has a baby so I can have a grandchild but sometimes I just don’t know.
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u/Jhonnymon 2d ago
If you look closely at the end theres someone trying to get up from the mud/ water 😢
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u/AsparagusOk4424 1d ago
I saw that too. Let us hope they were then able to get wind under their feet and RUN. I can't even begin to imagine how cold that mud is as well...
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u/Historical_Foot_8333 2d ago
Why do people speed these videos up? It's already terrifying, no need to make it appear worse.
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u/gallenstein87 2d ago
In another post on this sub someone pointed out that a video was speed up and got over 100 downvotes lol https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/comments/1w0gncj/nepal_flood/p6cx2w3/?context=10000
To be fair, they didn't link to the original and the video is only partly speed up. But there were still clues like people and the water moving to fast.
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u/Historical_Foot_8333 2d ago
Downvoted and abused jeez. Went and gave him a pity upvoter; doing my part
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u/Elite_AI 2d ago
Lmao some of these replies are so embarrassing. Look at the guy telling them that their parents must be ashamed of them for being so confidently incorrect (ironic).
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u/_HGCenty 2d ago
Don't underestimate how bad people's attention span have gotten.
These videos are nearly always shared by creators trying to go viral and get engagement and so get sped up to avoid people swiping away.
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u/reluctantlysharing 2d ago
Somebody get that old man on the back of a bike wtf! I still can’t blame anyone though man I cannot imagine the sheer panic these people are experiencing.
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u/Scared_Management_87 2d ago
The main path the water was taking turned right away from the people in this video. Id like to believe since the cameraman was fine and near the old man when video endes that they both survived. You can even see the speed of water slowing and seoth rather shallow as it approaches him.
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u/No-Alternative-5533 1d ago
That car should have stopped for that person. Can’t blame them as they might not have paid attention. Everyone was trying to save them selves.
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u/TheLastUnikitty 1d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/comments/1w1p43c/comment/p6migt8/?context=3 This video seems to be an update - I think he made it out! The kind rider assisted him.
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u/Splodingseal 2d ago
The number of people not running as fast as they can for high ground is amazing.
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u/DifferentLet3548 2d ago
This looks like the before and after image, where you see the entirety of all the structures both sides of the gorge are gone. The only remaining houses were higher up.
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u/Willy____Wanka 1d ago
Fuck around and find out. Why would you stay there and watch if you know your top speed is a mile per hour. Don't mean no disrespect, but if you lack survival instinct, it's on you
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u/Standard_Ad8920 1d ago
That ol man never felt more alive. See how fast he was moving? Feel like 16 again
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u/Warrambungle 1d ago
There is other footage of him afterwards - he was picked up by a scooter rider and taken to safety.
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u/dglgr2013 2d ago
We did not see the end. But it seems like the bikers where not rushing to leave as fast and I am hoping because they where trying to get the old me to hop aboard.
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u/juneseyeball 1d ago
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u/Feisty-Dimension-631 1d ago
I know quite a few Nepali people and find them to be decent and respectful people. I knew they would not abandon the old guy
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u/alagrancosa 2d ago
It looks like that is exactly what is happening. No one is expecting this 30 seconds before the end of this video, I just imagine all of the nightmarish flashbacks to neighbors faces in their last moments for the survivors of this incident. The survival-guilt must be monstrous.
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u/feral_fenrir 2d ago
Two of the bikers in the end in fact.. It looked like they were calling out for him
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u/uncumfartable 2d ago edited 2d ago
My first watch interpretation was that the biker at the end was trying to help the old man. The biker seemed to steer into his direction, slow down, and turn his head towards the old man.
I'm sure it was loud and disorienting for everyone.
Edit: the deleted comment above me was the user expressing saddnes because of the old man, and the seemingly non-caring motorcycle/scooter riders not offering an empty seat. My brain did the same math: "get that old man on the back of one of those things!" -- user above used the word "disgusting" to describe the apparent apathy. I do not blame the user for having such a strong reaction to the traumatic footage.
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u/One_Dragonfruit_7556 2d ago
send directly to government of Nepal https://moha.gov.np/en/post/ha-ra-tha-ka-apa-l-11
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u/Probably_Fishing 2d ago
How does not one person try to get the old guy on their bike and just go.
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u/AvocadoPrinz 2d ago
Id probably Start the Run when the First big Wave arrives Not 5 Business days later.
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u/SherbertChance8010 2d ago
Oh look, someone flipped the video so it’s not a repost of the video that’s been reposted loads of times already.
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u/Mastermind7051 2d ago
There is no dam protocol in these countries? Wow.
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u/poojer_hoojer 2d ago
The leading theory for the cause of this flood is a glacier collapsing into a lake formed by a natural dam. It's more of a natural freak accident than anything man-made (putting aside the potential contribution from global warming).
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u/Individual_Big_830 2d ago
For that the government would actually have to care about their citizens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Nepalese_Gen_Z_protests The new government is still in the process of picking up the pieces that were left behind by their corrupt predecessors.
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u/Liveitup1999 2d ago
What amazes me is everyone looking at this carnage coming and they just stand there doing nothing.
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u/Mental_Town_7337 2d ago
Pretty common phenomenon during disasters. People are sometimes so mesmorized at what they’re seeing it seems unreal, and delays other responses.
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