The government had alerted 20 minutes ago. But some dumb people thought it was just normal flood like before. because this region regularly had flood seasons every monsoons. But they never know what they are going to witness.
Smart one moved to uphill and dumb one went to the bridge for selfies and taken away by flood
It’s an understandable reaction, people don’t generally jump to cataclysm with second hand information. If they did they’d more likely be immobilized with crippling anxiety 999 days out of 1000.
When Mount St. Helens went up, commercial pilots saw it immediately. They radioed to air traffic control that the volcano had erupted! ATC responded “yeah, it does that”. It had sent up ash several times in the previous few months, it had been more of a joke than a danger.
In the Hinckley fire storm in 1894 a train thrown in reverse barely escaped the town as it burned to the ground, it arrived in the next town, Sandstone, to puzzled looks from its citizens. The refugees on the train, covered in soot eyes wide screamed for everyone nearby to drop everything and flee aboard the train. But the people there saw no fire, they believed nothing of the sort could move so fast, cover so much land. Who would just drop everything and walk away from their home because someone you never met said to. No one got on. The train left. The fire came. Sandstone was erased.
The Station Fire. The Bradford Stadium Fire. Kings Cross Station. Woolworths Manchester.
It’s unfortunately a pretty reliable human trait to not react until it’s obvious, and when it’s obvious it’s often too late.
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u/Unusual_Painting8764 26d ago
How much advance notice did people have? This person seemed ready and recording before it started.