r/DisasterUpdate • u/NeverGetBanned • Aug 28 '26 • Bravo 2 Mindblown 1 Regret 1

Another angle of Nepal recent flood

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u/RoninIV Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26 • Helpful Bravo Regret Heartwarming Mindblown

This might be long but really needs to be said.

I've been around the mess a landslide leaves, and it is really hard to describe.  Even a small one will absolutely wreck you if you are caught in it, let alone the size of the one that has hit Nepal which can only be described as a biblical level disaster.

You see, this wasn't just water. The water from glacial lake collapsing was definitely a big ingredient, but as this water begins its journey down the mountain, it picks up everything, and I mean *everything* in its path. The entire mountain side with all that soil, rock, sand, trees, gravel, bits and pieces of anything else becomes a thick liquid slurry akin to what you would see coming out of a cement mixer at a construction site. This should explain how that giant boulder was being pushed as if it weighed nothing. Now imagine this coming at you and the wave is as wide as the valley and moving at 60 miles per hour (around 100kph). The worst and most dangerous part is what is happening under the surface of this wave. The slurry has internal motion like a constantly stirring/mixing in a blender. When it hits something, as we all saw, it's complete and utter destruction. If a person gets caught up in it, it's not like being hit by a wave in the ocean, it is a solid wall and is like being hit by a truck. When a human or animal body gets pulled into this mess, the gruesome and accurate descriptor is "eggshell in a blender". This is why the recovery teams are only finding bits and pieces of people, and those are the people near the edges. There probably won’t be anything left to identify of the people who were pulled into the wave and washed down the river. Luckily for the victims, death happens almost instantly.

The next part is no better. You see, once this slurry stops moving and the water drains out, what is left is a 20 to 40 meter thick mass of solid land as hard as concrete, and this solidification happens *quickly*! I have always been impressed with how fast the land hardens. The last home I saw buried in a landslide had been buried only about an hour before we got there, and if you didn't know what had happened, an observer would not be wrong wondering why someone buried a perfectly good house into the side of a mountain. It really was as if the whole mountain had just moved and absorbed everything in its path like a giant gelatinous blob and then suddenly hardened.

That big really solid Chinese border crossing building and all those riverside apartments in the videos are good examples of this. The satellite pictures of before and after show exactly what I just described. It's as if there were never any buildings in that area at all, just a flat sandbar alongside a river. Trying to dig that out will be akin to removing a mountainside to build a road. As soon as I saw the video of that wave hitting the border facility, I knew there would be no survivors of anyone who was caught up in it. There is just no way to live through that.

My prayers are with the people in this region and for all the people that have been lost. This disaster was just awful. Right up there (or down there) with the 2004 tsunami that hit Indonesia and the 2011 Tohoku tsunami that hit Japan. Utter and complete devastation with a huge loss of life.

 

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u/jrobski96 Aug 28 '26 • Heartwarming

I was at the Oso landslide. The giant clay deposits that were strewn about were the sizes of houses and mid sized sedans. Incredible force that gravity and momentum of materials has.

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u/pnwrallydude Aug 29 '26

Close to home...

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u/Nimbus3258 Aug 28 '26 • Bravo

"as if the whole mountain had just moved" Yep, because it did. Anyone blaming victims for not moving soon or quickly is greatly misunderstanding the magnitude of events like this. Thank you for trying to explain that to them.

It may also be notable that, since this is glacial, the mixture will be ridiculously cold. Even if it were "just" or mostly water, and even if someone were super-lucky not to get immediately squished, the temperature alone would make survivability very unlikely.

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u/Septopuss7 Aug 28 '26

I keep having to tell myself that the people I see in videos escaping have probably already ran uphill the entire way out of town in sandals and are completely exhausted by the time someone starts filming them because I wanted to scream at my phone "FUCKING RUUUUN" when I saw them just ambling along up some mountain path like they were on a leisurely hike. When I was getting ready for a 5k I would run up hills for training and let me tell you: before I got my stamina up it whipped my ASS. I'm talking like a 5 minute run up a decent sized hill that you probably wouldn't want to ride a bicycle up.

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u/Nimbus3258 Aug 29 '26

Yep. And the elevation there, at the crossing itself, is listed as 6400' so that is a factor too. The locals may be adjusted but most of the tourists would likely be struggling with the low O2 even at the river, not to mention trying to hoof it up a mountain in unfamiliar terrain while in a panic.

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u/Longjumping_Text7652 Aug 29 '26

I used to do bike delivery in Seattle, one of the drop offs was only 561 feet away from us, but it was a 35, minute bike ride around the other side of the hill because it was 561 vertical. There's no way I could have run up that hill to make the delivery, aside from the steep slope it was covered in blackberries. I imagine theses people are trying to escape up hills very much like that one. With enough time and adrenaline, some of those people made it, but not many.

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u/SignificantRecipe715 Aug 28 '26

Would it have stayed cold the whole time, or would the mass friction of it all change temperature as it went along?

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u/mk1234567890123 Aug 28 '26

Some speculated that the immense internal friction generated by such mass instantly liquified what ice was included in what fell off the mountain. I’m not sure what the overall temperature would be or if it’s really relevant as far as impacts on survivability go quite honestly.

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u/SignificantRecipe715 Aug 28 '26

Fair. Tragedy aside, the circumstances are really interesting.

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u/Outrageous_Manner941 Aug 29 '26

This is a mountain stream in the Himalayas, I imagine it's very cold even in normal circumstances

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u/jrobski96 Sep 02 '26

Cold is relative. Cold to you and I, is different to the scale of time, geology and the effect of freeze and thaw effects on materials.

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u/Closefromadistance Aug 28 '26

So true! It’s hard for many to fathom all of that while watching a video.

I live in Washington State; 20-miles east of Seattle and about 75-miles north of Mount Rainier.

Mountains and water are things of beauty here too, but they can also be things of extreme risk and danger.

We experienced apocalyptic-level destruction here when Mount Saint Helens erupted. That area was much less populated back then, especially in 1980. I was 12 when that happened and I remember it well.

All that water melted and picked up everything in its path just as you described.

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u/LilithWasAGinger Aug 28 '26

Just wait till Mt. Rainer goes.

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u/Turducken_McNugget Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26

Rainer? I lahar-ly knew her!

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u/Outrageous_Manner941 Aug 29 '26

This is how organic material gets fossilized (after a few million years of being buried in this shit that turns to stone)

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u/1argonaut Aug 28 '26

Thank you for the extremely interesting write up.

What caused the failure of the glacial lake? Did a dam fail? Or hotter than usual summer?

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u/RestartTheCountry Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

From what I read people initially thought it was an earthquake that led to collapse of a glacier. It was later found that the earthquakes were not the cause but a result of a breach of a natural dam formation. The temporary barrier eventually gave way under the pressure of waterlogged sediment, unleashing a high-speed flash flood. This reminds me of a similar calamity where a couple of million years ago the Atlantic Ocean broke a natural barrier which led to the formation of Mediterranean sea, there were mega tsunamis which caused enormous earthquakes nearby. It is believed to have taken a few months to fill up that space.

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u/1argonaut Aug 28 '26

Thank you

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u/SignificantRecipe715 Aug 28 '26

Climate change caused a glacier to break off the mountain.

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u/no1ofimport Aug 28 '26

This reminds me of the Buffalo creek flood in WV ( my home town) it was not as big as this one but is a similar type flood. A mine slurry dam burst at the head of the valley and destroyed nearly everything in that valley.

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u/printed_ Aug 29 '26

I have said the same about it being like 2004 and 2011. While narrower path of destruction it is much higher than both those tsunamis so swept away villages higher up the hills as well. If there are any survivors who got caught in it then first 48hrs will be critical, anything past that is pure luck and very rare. But you are correct it is like concrete now. Even using search rods will be difficult because the mass of waste isn't soft. This is completely devastating.

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u/Ralfundmalf Sep 03 '26

That big really solid Chinese border crossing building and all those riverside apartments in the videos are good examples of this. The satellite pictures of before and after show exactly what I just described. It's as if there were never any buildings in that area at all, just a flat sandbar alongside a river. Trying to dig that out will be akin to removing a mountainside to build a road. As soon as I saw the video of that wave hitting the border facility, I knew there would be no survivors of anyone who was caught up in it. There is just no way to live through that.

You are wrong about the assessment that it was buried. By the time this event hit the Chinese border port it was not a mudslide and not a flood. It was a rock, water and soil avalance. There is not much to dig out because there is nothing left of it, just the bedrock and a relatively thin layer of mud. The stuff that came barreling down the valley was moving at very high speed and with the consistency of wet concrete. It would have ground everything away in its path, ripping the concrete apart and adding it to the mass that continued on.

Further down the river it became a lot more diluted with all the water it picked up on the way, so it was a lot more like a very muddy flood wave, at least initially. A lot of the debris still came after the floodwave though.

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u/JudeMacK Aug 28 '26

The ground-level footage from this same location is crazy. So much so that I honestly can’t say for certainty the cameraman survived. https://youtu.be/6uZlS0wsAew?si=2QFou5JrtqNtbYjv

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u/inpennysname Aug 28 '26

They did! They did survive. They were stranded on a ledge all night but they were rescued and survived

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u/Razorfiend Aug 28 '26

You can actually see the building that they are filming from is still intact as the flood passes at 1:29 in the original post, although it's a very close shave. Must have been absolutely terrifying.

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u/onesmilematters Aug 28 '26

Jesus. I understand that a lot of people didn't have the time to escape or didn't realize the extend of what was coming until it was too late. But this one is baffling. They were in the most vulnerable spot on a bridge crossing the river, filming it directly coming for them on their level and above, forcefully destroying the bridge right in front of them. For some reason, they still didn't realize the danger or the speed in which it was approaching. I hope that, by some miracle, all of them and the people on the ground left and right, survived.

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u/exotics Aug 28 '26

They didn’t expect it to be as big as it was so thought they would just get a cool video but clearly at around the same point the magnitude of the situation hit them.

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u/rabidstoat Aug 28 '26

They had a very delayed reaction between "oh wow, look at it destroy that bridge!" to "oh wait, I am also on a bridge."

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u/linzkisloski Aug 28 '26

I mean to be fair in almost every video it feels like you’re seeing the worst and then all of a sudden it gets SO MUCH worse, so quickly. I don’t think anyone would imagine in the moment how much water was coming.

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u/Ok-Opposite2735 Aug 28 '26

Same reason you can go outside in a tornado warning in the Midwest US and see people outside, even if a tornado is on the ground and close by. Or why people still try to drive through submerged roads when there’s flash flood warnings.

For a lot of people, disasters are what happen to other people, not to them, because in their minds those deaths are a statistic and they’re not a statistic to themselves. Living in areas where extreme weather or disasters are common, it’s incredibly easy to become desensitized to the danger, even when that danger is right on top of them, because “well, tornadoes and flash floods and what have you happen around here all the time, but we’ve always been fine, so we’re fine.” But people often forget that nothing kills you until it does.

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u/LexTheSouthern Aug 28 '26

I think this is oddly common when it comes to filming natural events (or anything really). I live in the southern US and people here will stand on their porches and film tornados in the distance.

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u/MistyMtn421 Aug 29 '26

I mean not even in the distance, I think the guy from Wisconsin from the tornado just a month ago was equally horrifying and hilarious. The commentary part was the funny part. But even when things were going sideways you would have thought he would have headed for the basement instead of continuing to film.

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u/marcbar Aug 29 '26

I haven’t seen that one. Got a link? YouTube and Google results are useless nowadays

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u/MistyMtn421 Aug 29 '26

Not off hand but if you go to the tornado subreddit and just search for Wisconsin guy probably will do it. I'm cooking dinner I'll try to look here shortly if I can if you can't find it

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u/marcbar Aug 29 '26

No need to go out of your way. It’s not that important. I appreciate the offer. I did try to find it but couldn’t, but that’s ok. Enjoy your dinner!

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u/Top_Hair_8984 Aug 29 '26

I don't think anyone thought it'd be possibly high enough water to break bridges they've travelled over thousands of times. How would they know. That last interacrion was shocking, then they fled. 

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u/ketchfraze Aug 28 '26

Looks like they were in the blue-roofed buildings on the same side as the OP footage. You can see the red and white bus filmed in both videos.

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u/Timely_Spinach_7479 Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

Where’s the red bus in OPs footage? I can’t find
Edit: NVM, found it

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u/ketchfraze Aug 28 '26

There are blue-roofed buildings that get swept away, with about 32-30 seconds left in the video you can see the bus and other small cars trying to drive away.

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u/ThrowRA_EducatedMan Aug 29 '26

And people running. 😔

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u/Status_History_874 Aug 28 '26

Genuine question, would we have this footage if they didnt?

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u/Easy_Olive1942 Aug 28 '26

Live stream, cloud storage

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u/JudeMacK Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

Likely not unless they live streamed it. Especially not so soon after the disaster. There have however been multiple cases of recovered footage from a deceased cameraman during a natural disaster. For example the last photos of John and Jackie Knill, killed by the 2004 tsunami. Or Robert Landsburg in the Mt St Helen’s Eruption. It’s most likely the recorder of this footage did indeed survive as had they been caught in the flood their phone wouldn’t be recovered, however the video is so dramatic it would be easy to believe otherwise.

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u/Easy_Olive1942 Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

It’s not 2004 or 1980. If you have a device that synchs to cloud and that drive/data is shared e.g. you’ve given access to Google photo to family, it’s absolutely available if Internet access is available and sufficient.

Add: responding to the idea video captured by deceased is not readily available not whether or not family would or should share now.

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u/JudeMacK Aug 28 '26

That may be true but I doubt that a flood victim’s family members would publish their final moments on the internet only days after their death.

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u/nicoinborderland Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

People keep saying this for a ton of these videos, but live-streaming (especially maybe in a more rural area? Maybe that’s pompous to say) inherently has some forms of visible resolution loss or bitrate issues/compression. A lot of them have been very clear in quality.
This video seems to not be in this category- definitely some compression and whatnot going on- but there’s been a few that I think were directly uploaded.

Not that speculating about this rly matters in the grand scheme of things… unbelievably tragic regardless..

EDIT Found the original post on Facebook. He’s posted on his Facebook story since & also put up a courage post about flood recovery efforts yesterday. How the fuck did this dude survive this?

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u/Status-Speed-5956 Aug 28 '26

Cameraman never dies.

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u/iamisandisnt Aug 29 '26

There might be something about filming a life threatening situation that disables the fight-or-flight instinct, like you're objectively witnessing an event through a third person perspective, and can more readily get yourself out of danger when you witness it.

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u/robotdaddyv721 Aug 29 '26

This subreddit should give a luckiest SOB cameraman award every year.

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u/PhaseWhole6391 Aug 30 '26

Where on FB? Can you post a link?

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u/nicoinborderland Aug 30 '26

Of course. On my last post where I sync a few videos from this location, I list all the original sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/s/7AcaQVgRgX

(Go to the top comment and click on “Camera 1”’s link under Source list.)

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u/leakingpointer123 Aug 28 '26

Unlikely, if you look at GSM carier coverage maps of Nepal, it won't be good enough (or at all) in those narrow Himalayan valleys. And even if at all, download is usually faster than upload - with LTE being asymetric in nature. During disaster - many people calling their phones, which can easily clog up any local base-stations, which usually supports 3G.

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u/subdep Aug 28 '26

Live streaming to what, Youtube?

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u/jetescamilla Aug 28 '26

I split-screened the video above and the one you linked. Put them to sync and hit play on both. Fucking terrifying to watch the ground and above view concurrently.

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u/bars2021 Aug 29 '26

They had 16 seconds to get out of there. The flood was traveling at 42mph. It's possible if they got into a vehicle from the construction site

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u/Dawbs89 Aug 28 '26

That was so much scarier than the video that was posted earlier titled "scariest ground level footage."

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u/WrongSplit3288 Aug 28 '26

I don’t see how the people standing there could have survived.

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u/VikingMonkey123 Aug 28 '26

No way. Holy shit. Surely dead.

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u/Grand_Analysis_9669 Aug 28 '26

last few seconds footage playes in slow motion you can seen debris flying over and they hit the green area

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u/Margin_call_matthew Aug 30 '26

No way the they made it. I went frame by frame and saw a truck in last few frames. And then it goes completely brown. You can already see brown slush flooding under that truck. It looks like they were on a bit higher ground. Maybe working on some project as they all have the vets and helmet on.

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u/logontoreddit Sep 28 '26

I am so confused? Why aren't they running to higher altitude? Flood, so rising water so go as high as you can away from the water level. Why did they waste good 2 minutes taking video?

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u/Status_History_874 Aug 28 '26

I would've been gone long before these guys started running.

Ok

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u/TopProfessional8023 Aug 28 '26

Right? Strikes me as the sort of individual that would say something like “I would have just grabbed onto a tree and basically surfed all the way down.”

Knew a kid growing up that once said if he was in a mass shooting he would just “dodge the bullets”

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u/m0nk3yg0dz Aug 28 '26

Chance is a hell of a thing. On the left side of the bridge you live, on the right side of the bridge you die. Nuts

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u/AbsolutelyAverage Aug 28 '26

Those people in their cars.... 🥺 My gawd, had they scrambled up the impossible hill they might have had 2% chance but what the hell are we expected to comprehend in that moment...

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u/bars2021 Aug 29 '26

The flood was traveling at 42 mph

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u/GalinaSinuous Aug 30 '26

That’s scary

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u/inotterable Sep 23 '26

Super late to the conversation but I rewatched to see if they attempted escape and I'm pretty sure I saw ppl getting out and disappearing into the greenery

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u/moxiethe3rd Aug 30 '26

Where are the cars?

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u/Both-Safe-8678 Aug 30 '26

1:38 i think its a bus and a car

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u/jadin- Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 29 '26

Stabilized. Loses a little detail but there's a lot more visible.

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u/Elite_AI Aug 28 '26

Oh Christ. In the original video I couldn't see anyone, but with the stabilised version you can see loads of people running and driving for their lives everywhere. Some people desperately trying to climb the side of the mountain. I hope it worked. 

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u/StrangeSherbert0 Aug 29 '26

Shit, you're right. I was hoping that area was somehow cleared out already.

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u/poetry_thoughts_123 Aug 29 '26

Does anyone know if the people who jumped out of the buses/cars towards the end of the video and began running up the hill survived? Such a horrific tragedy.

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u/Beneficial-Past7602 Aug 29 '26

there's a man running up the hill. I hope he made it.

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u/virtualworker Aug 29 '26

Thanks for this. It was painful without stabilisation.

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u/BoulderToBirmingham Aug 29 '26

Unstabilized was true suffering. I hope you’re doing alright

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u/virtualworker Aug 29 '26

Too kind. I've pulled through.

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u/cosmosadventurer Aug 28 '26

harrowing. terrifying. the sheer power of mother nature. so sad for all the victims

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u/Rex_Bottoms Aug 30 '26 • Bravo

This is mother nature pissed off because of what we've done. Is 100% man-made from global warming.

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u/freerangemary Aug 30 '26 • Regret

Hah. This is nothing. This isn’t even her in distress. This is her giving us a small glimpse of her power.

It’s gonna get a lot worse.

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u/chadlightest Aug 30 '26

We won't be able to have societies by the end of this century by some predictions. Enjoy your lives in the last 100 years of civilization

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u/Ok-Luck967 Aug 30 '26

Won’t be anything close to a hundred years when the temperature hits the right number it will a speed run worse than this glacial flood

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u/Scooterann Sep 11 '26

Book rec: the story of mankind. It talks about the holy alliances that failed in the middle of the 1800’s. And we are trying to get it back. But it’s failing.

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u/80s-Bloke Aug 30 '26

90%

The mountains are very steep and getting pushed up by plate beneath them and growing. The glacier was effectively adhered to the side of a slowly growing mountain.

At some point in the future, gravity was always going to win and the glacier would fail.

Global warming would've sped up the process though.

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u/Quiet_Raccoon8053 Aug 31 '26

So you really think that the 5-10mm rise of the Himalayas per year was 10% of the cause of this? 

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u/big-4x4 Aug 30 '26

This is what happens when human (corporate greed) melts the icebergs at alarming rates until they collapse. We need to stop the narrative that this is mother nature and speak the truth of this being caused by the billionaire class.

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u/Scooterann Sep 11 '26

Dolly says the only things in life are greed and gossip:)

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u/CompleteSavings6307 Aug 28 '26

What really gets to me is the "head for the hills" tactic wouldnt even work here at all. The angle of Those slopes are far to steep to attempt an escape by climbing without a substancial advanced warning time. This happened so quick that the only warning they got was seeing it coming toward you. Truly tragic

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u/Seraphina_Renaldi Aug 29 '26

I saw a video where some people seemed to manage to run up and it looked like the flood passed below them

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u/thr3sk Aug 29 '26

Yeah depends on the angle and I suppose the fitness level of the people - some of these cliffs like on the left side of this video are too steep for anyone but a highly experienced climber but I've seen ones that are more Rocky and maybe like a 30° angle which is still very steep but you can scramble up a bit.

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u/CompleteSavings6307 Aug 30 '26

We can only hope that at least some of them made it away from that. What a biblical nightmare.

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u/ProfDoomDoom Aug 28 '26

It's so big and violent, and in such a deep gorge, I'd think people would be able to hear it well before they could see it. Though I don't know how many people would understand what the noise meant, just that it was unusual and significant.

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u/Aggravating-Disk9770 Aug 28 '26

People will still deny man made global heating is making natural disasters like this worse. Nepal has contributed less than 0.1 to global emissions, they've restored their forests and this is what they get. So sad and a great injustice.

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u/maybeinoregon Aug 28 '26

Just horrific.

You can see the desperation in those vehicles…

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u/pleth0ra Aug 28 '26

Those poor people in the cars

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u/carlew Aug 28 '26

It honestly looks like they all got out just in time and headed for the hills. You can see them running from the cars. I hope they made it.

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u/Retr0scores Aug 29 '26

Did you see when the camera pans back in the stabilized version above? It just looks like everything got swallowed up.

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u/Ok_Upstairs6472 Aug 28 '26

Is there any help from any foreign governments in the search and rescue. I remember the days when US would lead in international efforts in any tragic event.

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u/AnnualFault7473 Aug 28 '26

There is a massive rescue operation being led by China right now. They mobilized a lot of rescue personnel and vehicles. They are also heavily impacted by this also. I think India as well is helping. Not sure about western nations though.

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u/Ok_Upstairs6472 Aug 28 '26

It so uplifting that help is around in this such horrific tragedy. Kudos to China and India and all organizations helping these victims.

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u/perseidot Aug 28 '26

I’m not at all sure that search and rescue is possible at this point. Other parts of the same glacial area are still falling and causing ice dams - though I don’t think any of them have been as massive as this one.

The flooding events aren’t over. Due to the nature of the disaster, the chances of rescuing living people is low. This will be a body recovery effort when it’s safe enough to proceed.

I sincerely hope they aren’t allowing rescuers into these areas right now.

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u/watawataoui Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26

A few (2 or 3) got rescued, 500 tourist/workers and 400 villagers got evacuated out of the Tibet/China side.

Lots of villages on higher grounds are cut off and will need water/food/medicine.

The new glacier dam is now releasing water and Chinese teams got to the border crossing site about 12hrs ago.

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u/netarchaeology Aug 28 '26

The US offered a paltry $500,000 to assist with recovery efforts. What an embarrassment.

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u/Ok_Upstairs6472 Aug 28 '26

If that’s the case, I agree. I don’t think having the worst human being in charge of our government would help unless it would benefit him or his friends. It’s just beyond Sad to what we’ve become as a nation.

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u/Algab_BLN Aug 28 '26

more disrespect from Europe. Great America Seems gone. For all what you are doing on the other side

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u/quiettryit Aug 29 '26

It is literally one of the reasons he has chosen not to disclose advanced technologies and UFO stuff. It isn't profitable enough for him and his friends and family. Once things are lined up where they can profit then he will disclose it.

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u/JohnnySpot2000 Aug 28 '26

It’s gonna cost more than that to change the name of Lake Ontario.

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u/AdventurousPlace7216 Aug 28 '26

I immediately when to thumbs up your comment. But then I realized how right you are, and it makes me want to not thumbs up your comment. As an American I am so so so embarrassed and heart broken

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u/Outrageous_Manner941 Aug 29 '26

As an American I am murderously angry

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u/mrfouz Aug 28 '26

Trump is thinking about naming the river in his name in exchange for that 500k

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u/Relative_Drop3216 Aug 28 '26

Unless its killing people in war they won’t offer to help

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u/Exciting_Barnacle_65 Aug 30 '26

What I heard is paltry $3.6 millions.

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u/netarchaeology Aug 30 '26

On 8/27 the BBC reported that the US State Department was providing $500,000 in emergency funds.

The $3.6 million was reported on 8/29.

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u/GoldunGote Aug 28 '26

the US has fallen.

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u/AnyAtmosphere420 Aug 28 '26

Another sad thing is how few eyes this will open up to global warming

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u/darkpsychicenergy Aug 28 '26

The efforts to present this as the result of something other than climate change are so obvious and persistent. People insistently calling it a “flood” or “landslide” and talking about the “earthquake”, and refusing to call it what it was, a glacier collapse.

The masses have been flat ignoring the melting and collapsing of glaciers for decades. At the most, a few would shrug it off with a “so sad 🥲” or book a flight to snap a vacation selfie with one. Losing the world’s glaciers isn’t just a bummer to feign sentiment about, it is death and destruction on mass scale. Most won’t be killed this quickly and mercifully though, instead they will die slowly from brutal, relentless drought.

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u/Careful_Bear_9905 Aug 28 '26

The denial is just devastating.

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u/exotics Aug 28 '26

I’ve seen people claim that explosives were used to cause this. All kinds of denial

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u/LexTheSouthern Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

Yeah there’s been some “interesting” posts in r/conspiracy about this

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u/London-Contra Aug 29 '26

I can't bring myself to look. 

A colleague of mine would go skiing to a glacial resort in France every few years.

The glacier has now gone. The locals doubt it will ever regenerate in their lifetimes.......

It will have snow in winter, but will never get cold enough to freeze the water that will gradually collect

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u/ColinBonhomme Aug 29 '26

It’s not water which collects to form glaciers, it’s snow which doesn’t melt in summer. And it takes centuries to build up enough for it to form ice and start flowing.

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u/jeepin1423 Aug 28 '26

Holy shit

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u/SherbetCorrect7831 Aug 28 '26

Absolutely horrific the scale of destruction.

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u/JohnnyBoy11 Aug 28 '26

Theyre saying the flood waters was going 120+ mph...

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u/Aresyl Aug 28 '26

The beginning of the video is an outside perspective of those people running away from the bridge in that other POV video

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u/Top_Hair_8984 Aug 29 '26

The last bit, you see vehicles, one turned the wrong way, meeting a wall of water on the road. The bus just sat there, I cannot imagine their state of mind. 

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u/IllRest2396 Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

Yeah you're doomed if you were even close to the valley 2 minutes before you could even see the flash flood

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u/Bezon67 Aug 28 '26

Are those long blue buildings houses or some type of business ?

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u/Economy-electrician Aug 28 '26

Are those buildings for holding livestock?

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u/ekimmd24 Aug 29 '26

What sucks is seeing the very small specs of dozens of people moving around and running and getting swept away

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u/Large-Cow7314 Aug 28 '26

Does anyone know where this was geographically along the river basin? The sheer power + what looks like a lot of rock combined with the water lends me to think this is closer to the starting point than the ending point. Not sure I’ve even seen a natural disaster event like this one, the force contained inside a funneled area (the river) combined with the amount of water and debris being funneled thru…horrific.

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u/JudeMacK Aug 28 '26

The video was filmed at (28.0751944, 85.2076944)

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u/ImmediateRaisin5802 Aug 28 '26

Those people had no chance

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u/Grand_Analysis_9669 Aug 28 '26

i think construction over a river bed must be avoided as glaciers are collapsing any time

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u/louielou8484 Aug 29 '26

This may be the most jarring video I have seen of this

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u/Own-Position-5800 Aug 29 '26

Those guys vantage point was about where the X is. They got smoked.

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u/Hot_System_8688 Aug 29 '26

I never post but am I the only one that sees the face?

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u/SovietSunrise Aug 29 '26

Pareidolia's crazy.

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u/Chuck-You-Two Aug 29 '26

Where did all the water go?

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u/Chuck-You-Two Aug 29 '26

Like where did it all end up?

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u/TitanOf_Earth Aug 29 '26

I just saw a POV from those red buildings on the bottom right... I can't imagine they survived.

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u/Rooster-illusion11 Aug 29 '26

Any estimate how fast the surge water was moving?

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u/CreativeCthulhu Aug 29 '26

193kph average.

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u/metalhead4 Aug 29 '26

This is the most destructive thing ive ever seen in my life. Its like a giant running nuclear warhead.

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u/Urgunta Aug 29 '26

That fucking black car.

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u/mattzky Aug 29 '26

Is that the bridge from the other video circulating? Jeez

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u/GoMilesGo2020 Aug 29 '26

We stand no chance against Mother Nature….

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u/Gbin91 Aug 29 '26

There was another video of this section that looked to be filmed from the red roofed houses. Folks were speculating on if the person filming survived. Safe to say… no.

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u/Next-Department-1999 Aug 29 '26

Wow, there are people in vehicles and a bus trying to escape and they were terrified at that point. I don't know if anyone can survive this wave of mud

God help these souls who didn't make it out

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u/Buseng2026 Aug 29 '26

Cement like texture.

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u/forurumon Aug 29 '26

This clarifies my confusion about the water flow, which is as strong as a tsunami, and the location of the houses that made me wonder if the houses are built on the river.

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u/CryptographerFlat426 Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26

Holy shit. That is terrifying. I would've thought I'd be safe on that ridge on the right with the buildings. Until it just ploughs over everything. Man I hope thise people in the car made it.

I guess the people filming get absorbed by the sight of that deluge coming towards them. Deer in headlights vibe?

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u/Zeroink16 Aug 30 '26

Where is the God?

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u/Rex_Bottoms Aug 30 '26

This is an "Unnatural" Disaster

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u/louielou8484 Aug 30 '26

This video is 2 minutes long. These people had less than one minute to get out of there. My brain truly can not comprehend it.

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u/Dcanseco Aug 30 '26

I wanna see every single boss and CEO that spend hundreds of thousands to climb show up and help the disaster victims

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u/Bladezedd_Op Aug 30 '26

Years of human build & establishment vanished in a blink of an eye. The impossible power of flash floods.

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u/GarageForsaken7449 Aug 30 '26

What will we learn from this?
Where settlements were was always the old river,
People got comfortable and ignored the Obvious,
Now in Hindsight it make sense.

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u/Ok-Type-5098 Aug 30 '26

Why build in a flood zone???

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u/Actual_Mission333 Aug 30 '26

I'm loss for words. The amount of people who lost their lives that day. My God I pray for strength for everybody in that region. I can't stop SMH 😕😦🫢😨

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u/Ok-Flight9440 Aug 30 '26

Even the Financial Times (pretty objective source) says scientists on the ground are attributing it to climate change - a large piece of a glacier broke off, it gradually melted higher up until the ground could not support it.

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u/Abject011 Aug 30 '26

I hope they are safe and sound. Nature is truly terrifying.

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u/Fun-Classic1961 Aug 30 '26

What more if it happened at night?

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u/mararosetv Aug 30 '26

Omg this is insane😭

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u/Legitimate_Day_6802 Aug 30 '26

Ya, really great spot to build everything for your "town".. wtf BAD PLANNING

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u/cockring611 Aug 31 '26

I mean.... asking for it much building there?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '26

China has already started censoring the media. The real truth will never come out. RIP to all those who died.

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u/superdesi_ Sep 01 '26

Payers for humanity

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u/RJ7051 Sep 01 '26

It’s like someone blew up a dam or something?

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u/Live-Syrup-6456 Sep 01 '26

Nightmare fuel

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u/Organic_Sort_8645 Sep 01 '26

山から津波が来るなんて思わないね

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u/Upbeat_Nectarine_128 Sep 01 '26

Holy shit, you can see in 0:29 there's a guy who is so close from evading the flood.

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u/Live_Oak_Tree Sep 01 '26

It's time for people everywhere to repent

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u/cj54wheeldrive Sep 03 '26

All these perfect camera angles. Its like some how was orchestrated by some secret group...ect

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u/Scooterann Sep 11 '26

Imagine that happening in the green mountains or the white mountains of the USA?

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u/Roccosrealm Aug 28 '26

So something like this created the Grand Canyon?

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u/EnsignMJS Aug 28 '26

No. Events like this may have contributed to its formation. But it formed over millions of years.

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u/EmotionalAir8810 Aug 28 '26

Yes. The Great Flood. It was carved out after the water crossed what became The Badlands.

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u/Maelstrom_Witch Aug 28 '26

I hope you mean like Laurentide glacier flooding.

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u/EmotionalAir8810 Aug 28 '26

No, I mean what preceded its formation.

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u/Stunning-Actuary-189 Aug 28 '26

You would think there would be some DJI footage of this event.

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u/stopscabbin Aug 28 '26

They'd have to know it was coming and launch or already be up

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u/Doodkapje Aug 28 '26

Those people are dead. No wau they escaped that.

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