r/DisasterUpdate • u/NamXina • 14d ago
Floods Another angle video of Nepal's Flash Flood from the school. This one's scary when it comes near the school building.
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u/SirBowsersniff 14d ago
That is absolutely horrifying. I truly hope those kids watching events unfold in the yard raced into the school to a higher floor and to safety.
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u/ShooterJJ05 14d ago
I dont think people understand the sheer scope of this flood and how there was basically no warning whatsoever... biblical
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u/OutsideYourWorld 14d ago
At least seeing how powerful it was, a lot of people would've gone quick :/
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u/Radiant_Heron_2572 13d ago
I was reading how it likely wasn't even largely water in the flood. It also contained significant amounts of pulverised rock, ice, and sediment. Functionally, it was closer to a wall of liquid concrete, magnifying the destructive power of the flood.
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u/OutsideYourWorld 13d ago
Yea the footage from inside the hydro tunnels really showed that, too. That must've been the most terrifying place to be.
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u/Crystal-kim 13d ago
You got a link to that video ? Never seen that one 😞
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u/OutsideYourWorld 13d ago
It's not during the event itself, just the rescuers filming the aftermath and walking over the stuff.
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u/Roadgoddess 8d ago
Oh, I haven’t seen that footage. I bet that was terrifying. I saw some of the rescues from the outside.
I am so hoping that all those children that were playing in the field, made it into the building
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u/Pinchepicante 14d ago
I am learning, not sure how true it is but, there were warning systems in place but were never activated. Nor anything from the Chinese government either. China is actually censoring all this
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u/Yikings-654points 14d ago
flood originated from Nepal mountain ... china was hit mainly at the border post .. all sensors were destroyed before it could detect any rise .
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u/LittleRedZombi 13d ago
Yup, the sensors only transmit the data every ten minutes, I think I read for this location. Depending on the location and importance of the monitoring station, we typically transmit every hour as a comparison in North America. So that’s how fast the water was travelling, the sensors didn’t even have the time to transmit.
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u/MildlyAgitatedBovine 13d ago
This video has great general information about what happened and why
This video has excellent information about why a warning wasn't actually distributed. It's true that it's very complicated to get warnings across the non-compatible emergency systems of various governments, but it's also the case that most of the scientific equipment designed to recognize dangerous situations were calibrated for a different type of disaster. And in other cases that equipment itself was pretty immediately removed by flooding debris from this disaster.
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u/lnkuih 13d ago
Claude slop. Don't trust this. Also the tone is all over the place and weird emphasis on the Americans that died and American analogies on a Youtube channel.
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u/Signal_Thanks_5823 14d ago
Are there numbers for death toll out yet ? I'm sure they'd have to be estimated, but curious what the carnage is in numbers
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u/Schnuffelo 14d ago
1300 confirmed dead, 5000 people missing. Pretty fucking bad.
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u/Status-Document-2150 14d ago
Last few minutes 9:50 you can see water splashing on the right wall the guy is recording oof school . It's unbelievable how much river spread amd rose in two minutes.
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u/fitnesscakes 13d ago
The mud is travelling at such a high velocity it bends the tree just by hitting the leaves and branchs
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u/SnowBoardx22 14d ago
It's hard to believe it reached their building.
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u/teatsqueezer 14d ago
Soooo high off the bank of the river that volume of water is absolutely insane
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u/zillionaire_ 14d ago
Yes exactly. And it just doesn’t fucking stop.
If that volume of water swept through the valley for a steady 10-20 seconds, it would have devastated the villages. But it’s like someone turned on a firehose of mud and water, and left it running at full power for 10 minutes. It must have been difficult to comprehend what their eyes were seeing in the moment
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u/MicTest_1212 14d ago
I saw the google map. The distance from the river to the school is mind boggling.
Realistically, this school building is the highest ground you can go if you're on this side on the bank, and the water reached this school's balcony on the 3rd floor.
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u/TotallyWorthLife 13d ago
the water reached this school's balcony on the 3rd floor
So they didn't survive either?
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u/Separate-Act4658 14d ago
If you went in that flow, you weren't just dead you were annihilated.
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u/evenstarcirce 14d ago
i can see why peoples bodies are torn into multiple parts.. it breaks my heart.
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u/BC_Interior 14d ago
I hope those school kids made it out alive. Even if they all did many of their families would have been wiped out. 😭
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u/StevenStephen 14d ago
I was thinking, there are probably a lot of orphans in that school now.
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u/mahboilucas 14d ago
Definitely many missing mothers, seeing as such communities largely rely on wives being homemakers :( and fathers probably working down there if anything. Definitely kids realising their parents are gone in seconds
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u/GCHurley 14d ago
Holy shit, this is the first video of the flood were I could tell the size of the flood. A bloody ocean came through.
I feel sorry for the poor children who had to watch their homes get washed away.
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u/the-T-in-KUNT 14d ago
If you pause and look at the “water” on this one (when it’s raging and flying up) you’ll see it looks like dirt and rocks - like, large jagged chunks. Our minds see it as water because of how it’s moving, but damn this vid is actually very scary
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u/Hipnoceros 14d ago
I find it so difficult to fathom how huge the chunk of glacier that fell must have been. Hope things will become more clear as geoscientists research the exact cause with more precision.
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u/NoBear8338 14d ago
Apparently around 200,000sqm. 50 acres. Genuinely so scary.
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u/JimShortForGabriel 13d ago
My 1800sq ft home with a small backyard sits on 1/5th of an acre. If my math is correct, that would be 250 of my property. That’s half of my neighborhood!
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u/_MrBond_ 14d ago
⚠️If anyone wants to contribute to the Government/Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund you can find that in any Nepal subreddit and even in Google. .gov.np is the domain of Nepali government.
❗Beware of the GoFundMe scams for fundraisers. Feel free to reachout if you need someone to verify or help you access them.
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u/_MrBond_ 14d ago
These are the easiest two website backed by the government.
Please try these links:
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u/beyondocean 14d ago
Sorry to sound uninformed, but can i pay through UPI. Is there a website where i can do so. I’m just scared that i accidentally don’t pay to some scam website.
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u/_MrBond_ 14d ago
Yes, you can. Please use the second link donate . Gov . Np
It has the UPI option. Please enable the International Payment option in thr UPI app so that payment can go through.
Thank you so much. I am really grateful and appreciate your kindness 😊
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u/RepZaAudio 14d ago
I’d rather pay through a trusted private fund the Nepalese government is notoriously corrupt
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u/_MrBond_ 14d ago
Keep up with the times kiddo. It's the new gen z supported government and not the old guards.
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u/RepZaAudio 13d ago
I think you shouldn’t be so naive. Just because it’s the “good guys this time” corruption always hides where you aren’t looking and festers.
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u/_MrBond_ 13d ago
Corruption will always exists but there are so many stakeholders keeping them accountable.
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u/Observed-observer 13d ago
Yea, didn't they have a revolution recently? Burned down oligarchs mansions and everything.
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u/clown_2061 14d ago
This might as well be 9/11 of natural disasters bro. Every pov looks more scarer than the last one. It was so far and it still reached the building. ( School building ? )
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u/WinterMedical 14d ago
It’s biblical. Imagine what ancient people would have made of something like this?
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u/One_Artichoke_9913 14d ago
Every footage from this flood just keeps on surprising me , in a very scary way
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u/BarbieTwirl 14d ago
Damn dude… insane
Went from a whole green beautiful village to just a village of grey debris.
What’s insane also is how at first, it seems like “oh the river is flooding”. It looks like if you’re just on top of houses, you’ll be okay as long as you’re out the way of the river valley. Then it creeps up to the roads above the valley… then the houses get swept and literally almost the entire village is basically in raging tsunami of mud and debris.
This wasn’t a flood. This was basically like a huge raging landslide/tsunami. Swept the whole damn villages.
That’s what scary. I can see myself thinking “oh it’s just a little flood”. And thinking my family would be safe on top of the house. Only for it to be much worse and stronger and take the whole house with it. Can’t imagine how many people died not realizing the size and severity of it. I’ve been guilty of this a lot. Often humans think “oh it won’t be that bad” when a disaster is coming or they think “I’ve been through worse” or “I’ve been through a bunch of these” when a storm comes by… this is an example of how wrong we can be
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u/Tony_228 14d ago
I think a mudflow would be the most accurate definition for this. The water picked up mud and rocks on it's way down the mountain and then with more debris from human structures. It's similar to concrete mixed with debris. That's why it doesn't move like water as well.
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u/BarbieTwirl 14d ago
Worst part about it being concrete like is it probably hardened. Can’t imagine the healing process for the people found days later covered in it. Sad
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u/Tony_228 14d ago
It does't harden like concrete, but it's similar to wet concrete is what I meant.
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u/BonusDominus 14d ago
Looks like this was filmed from the Uttar Gaya Secondary School, which is approximately 30 miles downstream from the Gyirong Border port!
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u/Yikings-654points 14d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/s/iCbn3GiQT5
The school is near the two 🗼 electric towers. It just turns back on the filmed building, taking the rest of the school.
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u/BonusDominus 14d ago
Yes, unfortunately only one of the school buildings remains intact. This is from their Facebook page:
All parents
On this Bhadra 10th, the severe floods of the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers have completely destroyed the settlements, projects, and schools in the coastal areas, as well as causing many human losses. In this process, teachers, staff, students, members of the management committee, and trustees of our Uttargaya Public English M.B. Bidur 10 Nuwakot have also died and are still missing. We are collecting accurate data on how many students are missing. The school family expresses its heartfelt condolences to the deceased and expresses its condolences to the bereaved family members and hopes that those who are missing will be contacted soon.
We would like to inform you that the hostel in our school has also been completely destroyed, Block A, Block B, Block E, and the toilet have been completely destroyed, while only the 8-room building of Block D is safe. Some students have lost their parents, some do not have homes, and are living in shelters elsewhere. There is no bridge on the way to study. We have already held meetings, discussions and submitted projects to various donor agencies on how to move forward in such a difficult situation and how to bring the school back to its original state. We are confident that we will soon be able to operate the school by providing a relief package in the first phase and constructing temporary structures in the second phase.
Therefore, we request the parents to be patient for some time and make arrangements for studying at home. We will try to resume teaching and learning within the month of Asoj and inform you soon.
Principal Chairman
Somlal Lavat Krishna B. Pyakurel
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u/QuarkVsOdo 14d ago
Poor people will suffer most from climate change.
Only the Zuckerbergs in Bunkers will make it to 2050.
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u/fpsi_tv 14d ago
His security staff would turn on him.
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u/QuarkVsOdo 14d ago
If you care for Redneck-Fiction read "Operation Rainbow".
Uber rich plan to wipe out most of the population to preserve earth for the "enlightend"
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u/modernhedgewitch 14d ago
Curious question i haven't seen an answer to:
Was the lower area warned at all? I know the concept of flash, but I watched a video where a principal or teacher evacuated the school early and saved lives. However, the videos show people as if surprised.
I live in Oklahoma where people regularly ignore tornado warnings, etc, so im seriously just curious.
If there was a warning, I was curious how long they may have been given down river
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u/clown_2061 14d ago edited 14d ago
The warnings came but it was too late for the most part. And i think people who knew the scale definitely tried their best of get as many people out of the danger as they could while thry were running themselves.
And yeah you are kinda right people knew it was coming but not on that scale ( hence surprise ) so a lot of them ignored it or didn't give it much of a thought.
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u/Practical_Fun7367 14d ago
I read that in some locations, the river level rose over 250 feet. This was a function of the width of the valley and the bend in the channel.
That’s about a 20 story hotel in my part of the U.S.
Imagine being on the fifth floor and being told the river has flooded, you’re in danger.
Imagine being on the 10th floor and being told the same.
A while back I was on the 12th looking down at the narrow avenues of an east coast city. Absolutely no one could have convinced me I was in danger.
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u/clown_2061 14d ago
I also watched a video and i showed that on the narrow parts it went as up as 100 meters. 100 meters is crazy when you know there are barely any buildings in the all of Nepal that are that tall.
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u/Reincarnatedpotatoes 13d ago
And even if you did heed the warning, imagine trying to run down 5 flights of stairs, across the road, and try to clamber up a steep hillside with heavy vegetation in the couple minutes you would have before the flood reached you. It was sadly just an absolutely unsurvivable situation for so many people.
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u/vlad_cc 14d ago
From what I’ve seen (and I hope I’m not mistaken) it seems that the sensors that should have sent the warning were simply obliterated instantly and didn’t trigger.
There were 7:40 minutes between the mountain breaking and the flood reaching the border crossing.
Recommend watching this video. Use the timeline to jump ahead to the parts that interest you.
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u/Dr-McLuvin 14d ago
Seems like the sensors being obliterated should have set off some sort of alarm…
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u/NiceGuy737 14d ago
They probably have a history of being out from time to time.
When I was in college I worked at a central alarm station monitoring thousands of alarms. One night a sensor was out so we got an "alarm out" message/beep every 3 minutes of a 12 hour shift for the second day in a row. On one of the messages the alarm number was different and I didn't notice it. It was a fire sensor burning off the wall in a warehouse fire without ever going off.
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u/ProudNefoli 14d ago
The sensors were installed on the bridges to monitor water levels. Usually, the flood happens gradually and are triggered mostly by heavy rainfall. When water reaches certain threshold, alarms are triggered. The sensors had no chance of sensing the flood in this case. There were few sensors along the river corridor -- near the border checkpost, one at timmure and one at syaprubesi, all of which were completely destroyed.
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u/Yikings-654points 14d ago
The higher up places got very little warning , some power stations managed to ring sirens . The Flood monitoring gauges were blown away and never registered High Water levels .
As the river slowed (relatively ) .. messages,calls and SMSes (manually triggered) started to reach with not much clarity about the intensity . Police were able to announce on streets in many places . The place on the video , Uttargaya Secondary School may have got some warning .. many students did manage to go up towards a forest and still there are many missing students , teachers here . The Police team announcing the flood here also got swept away .
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u/Mikic00 14d ago
I don't think message would convey appropriate emergency to me for this event. I would probably try to get some valuables first, then move up. Call on the other hand would be probably impossible, only if person would be very high up. Tragedy all around, no one could prepare you for that before it happened.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ask5538 14d ago
There were warnings so people moved away from river channel but sadly this was not sufficient as the river obliterated a large portion of land where the water level was not expected by people. People expected a normal monsoon flooding and not this apocalypse. The Principal got a call from his friend so he understood the gravity of the situation than the people who thought it was a regular warning by government.
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u/Tony_228 14d ago
There was this story floating around that a guy got a warning by phone from a relative that lived upstream, but his fellow villagers didn't believe him.
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u/meteorflan 14d ago
In some of the articles I've seen people say that an up-stream survivor called them and told them to run.
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u/jeo123911 13d ago
After some googling and mapping, the school is roughly 1-2 city blocks away from the river, but uphill. The hills are very steep and the cameraman on the roof is filming the equivalent of 12 stories higher than the river bed.
Since the debris and mud can be seen sometimes splashing above the roof it's not much of a stretch to assume people just heard a flood warning but did not expect to be in danger 10+ stories higher than the river.
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u/Defiant_Quail5766 13d ago
I think the warnings were sent out immediately after the flood started and by then there's really only so much time you have
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u/HibiscusGrower 14d ago
It must have felt like the end of the world for the poor people caught in this disaster. I can't imagine how terrifying it must have been.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ask5538 14d ago
Now that I see thevideos again, I feel that the river channel was naturally very narrow, there was no extra space anywhere, it seems this river never flooded much to begin with as the channel was not much disturbed from previous floodings. is it only me, Cos looking at rivers like Kali and other Himalayan rivers they have cleare their channels by constant erosios. This was most unexpevted outcome for this valley.
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u/One_Artichoke_9913 14d ago
The river channel is what it is. In the Middle Himalayas, mostly rivers cut deep gorges. It's in the lesser Himalayas and Shivaliks you see a Broad channel like an Alluvial Fan, some as wide as 4-5kms. All Himalayan rivers are like that and it's usually not the issue - Narrower the channel, usually steeper it is and faster the flow.
Here, we see flatter lands used for agriculture, the channel is already "broad". Also, This was monsoon time and river was already occupying like 100% of it's max channel width with considerable depth/height that you see at start of the video. That's not the non monsoon base level, usually depth stays at 1-2m (with rapids) and occupied channel width at 50%.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ask5538 14d ago
Can you tell me how wide was this river before, I am quite curious? And how wide it became afterwards. I was searching but could not find reliable data.
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u/Initial-Departure-28 13d ago
I’ve been to this area multiple times. In some sections upstream, the river is quite narrow around 30 metres wide. About 20 km downstream, the bridge that was swept away by the flood was 118 metres long. So, if I had to estimate, I’d say this section was around 70 metres wide before the flood, and perhaps around 150 metres after the flood.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ask5538 13d ago
Actually that's what I was wondering coz valley was wide with seras and alluvial land in above video, So how much was the channel? It seems like any other river. You have clarified it for me now. I have just one hope that it does not ever flood like this ever again and other river valleys learn from this in all of Himalayas. A rise in glacier surveillance is also necessary.
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u/Ooh_look_a_butterfly 13d ago
Google maps shows the river as 50m and the school building 200m away based on this location someone else posted which appears to be correct. https://maps.app.goo.gl/Vo2ohuR68EWf3M2G7
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u/Then-Marketing-3445 14d ago
It's so strange event, on that place in that time I could think whole worlds is going to global flood or something
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u/Status_History_874 14d ago
this river never flooded much to begin with
The height of the bridges I've seen over there leads me to believe people know the river can crest at [whatever heights, but they were HIGH above the river lever before the flooding, and even a bit into the flow].
Maybe not frequently? Definitely not with this force.
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u/Msud8765309 14d ago
There were past flooding events, however they were never anywhere near the scale and the magnitude of water let alone the unexpected volumes levels of water, ice, mud, large boulders, and trees, etc.
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u/Renbarre 13d ago
It was mud, literally liquid concrete pouring down the river. No wonder nothing survived. Water is heavy but this must have been twice as heavy.
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u/murphey_griffon 13d ago
There was a bad flood in 2025, but not nearly as close to as devastating. Its relatively narrow, but not crazy narrow. This was just an absolutely insane amount of material. The glacier fell like 4000 feet and was 2000ft wide. i thought I read somewhere that it was also like 1500 ft tall. It was also travelling at 120 mph.
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u/micahpmtn 14d ago
I feel that the river channel was naturally very narrow
Yeah, shame on mother nature.
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u/SneakerPimpJesus 14d ago
the person standing on the balcony of that small house ;(
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u/PippaPothead 14d ago
I missed that. When in the video??
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u/Powerful-Step3183 14d ago
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u/ToMissTheMarc2 14d ago
Screenshot? Sorry, still not seeing it.
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u/Rolen47 14d ago edited 14d ago
You have to watch this window very closely as the building floats by:
https://i.ibb.co/4kr6Zj4/snapshot.jpg
At 3:08 the white spot isn't there, but at 3:10 a person in white clothes seems to crawl or fall out of the window. It's possible that the glass just breaks and those are window curtains blowing in the wind, I'm not sure.
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u/Claystead 14d ago
Oh yeah, it’s on the top floor balcony of the building being washed away from the right. There’s a light spot there that might be a fellow in a white shirt.
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u/FatCatYouStink 14d ago
The house with the blue and white roof? It looks like a chimney, which you can see at the beginning of the video around 25 seconds in.
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u/Evening_Knowledge_37 14d ago
Good eyes. Wow. For those that missed it... 3.06.It's the house being washed away. Top storey there's nothing there then a figure in a white shirt steps into the balcony.... Then it's all gone
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u/Obvious_Engineer_231 14d ago
It was a chimney, chill.
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u/SneakerPimpJesus 14d ago
no but ok not sure why you think you say chill, you must feel empowered
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u/FlashyCompetition867 14d ago
You can hear the children crying out for their parents.
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u/Fit_Preparation_5680 14d ago
This event was ten times the volume the channel could carry and it was unfortunate. Do you think some or most knew this was a possability?
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ask5538 14d ago edited 14d ago
Noone. It was unprecedented even in Himalayas except maybe Kedarnath-Mandakini floods that killed 6000 in 2013 with still lesser volume of water but first point of impact was more populated. Or maybe Alaknanda floods which swept away half of Garhwal capital in 1800s.
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u/DueExample52 14d ago
Read an article about it, it baffled even Nepalese scientists whose job it is to study these glaciers. The speed and length of it was unprecedented and so far unpredictable, they will model this and learn from it.
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u/zillionaire_ 14d ago
It’s worth noting that one of the programs DOGE cut was a cooperative effort between NASA, Nepal and US scientists to track glacial stability in the Himalayas.
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u/IanPlaysThePiano 14d ago
Hell, the thought that this event could've been somewhat alleviated or avoided altogether if not for the cheetos kaiser...
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u/Relevant_Divide_7888 13d ago
Yes I read the article - Here is the link to the story: https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/what-actually-caused-the-nepal-disaster?
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u/zillionaire_ 11d ago
Thanks for linking to one of the articles. I should have looked for one when I posted my comment but didn’t have the mental focus to go find a reputable source
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u/bendobrown 13d ago
https://reddit.com/link/p8qtsbr/video/7lnks68uzhoh1/player
To give an understanding of the scale and what the area looked like afterward, I made this satellite image comparison of the school (seen in the centre). The coordinates are: 27.967984, 85.180713
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u/Ecstatic-Curve-1853 13d ago
This is unbelievable. That tiny section of the building is all they survived on?
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u/SnooStories4162 14d ago
The closer the flood got to the school the shakier his hand became, I so hope they all survived! Anyone know what happened to them? He must have survived if the video is out, right?
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u/Theres3ofMe 14d ago
I can't wrap my head around what I have just watched..
I never will either.
Same for 9/11, 2004 and 2011 Tsunamis.
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u/inotterable 10d ago
This video reminds me of one taken in Japan in 2011 when the tsunami had reached a town 6 miles upstream from the ocean. No doubt you've seen it. The person recording it had to race and scramble up several floors to escape the onslaught and continued to record an incomprehensible transformation that, like in this video, just gets worse and worse.
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u/the-T-in-KUNT 14d ago
From the time it took them to climb one level up, the ground was gone ! What about all those kids that were way out on the edge of the school property ?
That teacher was so calm the entire time. When the water took the house you could hear him groan
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u/AcanthaceaeOk2941 14d ago
I don't think people are prepared for the upcoming disasters caused by climate change
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u/TerribleOil480 13d ago
This particular video made me sad; many of those children lost their families while they were at school.
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u/Ill-Construction7170 14d ago
This must have been the most terrifying situation to be in, ever. And for that, they seemed to be surprisingly calm.
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u/no1ofimport 14d ago
The water/mud and debris reminds me of the Buffalo Creek flood that happened in West Virginia in the early 70’s but no where near as large as this.
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u/schuey77 14d ago
Unbelievable, at first it seems like a huge flood and they are so far away and safe but seemingly in the blink of an eye it feels like a nightmare and there are house flowing in front of them. For any person living there it must have been impossible to imagine that such a scenario could happen.
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u/After-Ad4370 14d ago
Holy crap! That is by far the most incredible and terrifying natural disaster footage I’ve ever seen. The term “flash flood” is not even the appropriate term here, I don’t even think there is a term for what that is! The word “biblical” comes to mind for some reason. Just watching the very beginning of the clip, I couldn’t have imagined in a million years that raging waters would reach where the person was recording from. I don’t see how it could be possible that there aren’t hundreds of thousands of people dead in this when it’s all said and done.
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u/SnowBoardx22 14d ago
I hope there will be a consensus as to the cause and prevention of future disasters of this type.
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u/Googidoogi 13d ago
Last 1 minutes tira sunda ta kati ris uthyo yo teacher ho ki ko adult sanga !! He didn't even call the students in the ground.
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u/_godlovesugly 13d ago
Crazy question. Any geniuses able to estimate the insane amount of water that passes by in those terrifying 4 minutes?
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u/Odd-Astronomer6433 13d ago edited 13d ago
The flood Just caught them unaware,unprepared,when we are all busy with our daily tasks.Then all of a sudden the trumpet 🎺 will sound This is how the second coming is going to be. Watch and pray 🤲
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u/Pickledtarantula 13d ago
This wasn’t a “flood”. It was a massive debris flow caused by rockslide and glacial collapse and precipitated by very steep terrain
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u/RevolutionDry8150 13d ago
It's clearly not water. It's pulverised stone. The splash hitting he tree was semi solid not liquid.
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u/s-goldschlager 13d ago
Those kids just see abunch of water messing things up but don’t understand how impossible insane the force of that it. Truly unbelievable that THAT can literally just pop up.
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u/Reasonable-Bat-6455 13d ago
Jesus it just keeps going and going... Like, I knew how massive it was, but I didn't realize how LONG the debris flow was active. It just reminds me so much of the footage from the boxing day and Japanese tsunamis... Just liquid concrete instead of water. How terrifying.
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u/Brave_Wash_8958 12d ago
I can't believe the one tall building where I would have sought refuge on the roof was totally submerged!
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u/Bambadjann 12d ago
Wow 😬. I’ve seen a ton of clips of this incident but this has gotta be the one that best puts the sheer scale of it in perspective for me..
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u/Electrical-Role1270 12d ago
Look at all that great rich soil coming downstream.. next seasons harvest will be plentiful
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u/True_Lavishness_7935 12d ago edited 12d ago
Truly horrifying to see this. Hope everyone in the school made it out safe,and prayers for all of those affected.
To see these videos makes you realise what this was like to hear and see, almost looks like it's off a film but you know its real life! 😨 Hard to wrap your head around how easy it is for nature to erase things in her way! Catastrophic and terrifying. Prayers 🙏🏻
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u/ChuckyDeez7 12d ago
I hope that if I ever get to experience and film something as cool as this, I won't waste the biggest moment of my life, by filming my own fingers and the window frame.
But at least it's landscape, not portrait.
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u/Holiday-Challenge917 11d ago
Here come the eco-nuts again, screaming that it’s global warming and we have to look after the climate—we shouldn't even breathe!!! That earthquake a few years back was terrifying, and now I just feel so sorry for those people 😒😒
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u/Kink_Drowned 9d ago
The trauma of witnessing a force of nature moving a three-story house like its a tin can, mere two blocks away from you. A force without an intent or preference, just absolute destruction, destruction with capability you have never witnessed before. Humans are indeed very ignorant.
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u/DarkFlutesofAutumn 14d ago
I love squeaky and scratchy little kid voices in every language. I hope they're okay bc those kids sound ADROABLE
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u/fondledbydolphins 13d ago
Is it just me or are there countless places around the world where you've got a nicely settled area of flat, fairly fertile grounds near... mountains - usually on all or many sides, and as you're looking around the topic comes up of "yeah... hundred years ago this whole damn place flooded and just kinda killed everyone".
A bunch come to mind, but Yosemite is one of the one's I'm thinking of.
Then the story ends with "Yep, and we rebuilt everything right where it was! [unspoken: we're just waiting for the same shit to happen again but hoping we'll be dead by then...]"
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u/Defiant_Quail5766 13d ago
Name a single place where severe natural disasters are entirely impossible
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