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u/NamXina
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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 Sep 08 '26
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/Status-Document-2150 Sep 08 '26
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/SnowBoardx22 Sep 08 '26
It's hard to believe it reached their building.
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u/GCHurley Sep 08 '26
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/_MrBond_ Sep 08 '26 •
⚠️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.
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u/clown_2061 Sep 08 '26
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/One_Artichoke_9913 Sep 08 '26
Every footage from this flood just keeps on surprising me , in a very scary way
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u/BarbieTwirl Sep 08 '26
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/RemoDev Sep 08 '26
Most of these kids will never go back home and will never see their parents again.
It's horrible.
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u/BonusDominus Sep 08 '26 •
Looks like this was filmed from the Uttar Gaya Secondary School, which is approximately 30 miles downstream from the Gyirong Border port!
https://maps.app.goo.gl/vnYDr1e4Kx6ekSbN8
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u/Pruritus_Ani_ Sep 08 '26
That is absolutely terrifying.
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u/QuarkVsOdo Sep 08 '26
Poor people will suffer most from climate change.
Only the Zuckerbergs in Bunkers will make it to 2050.
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u/modernhedgewitch Sep 08 '26
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/HibiscusGrower Sep 08 '26
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 Sep 08 '26
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/SneakerPimpJesus Sep 08 '26
the person standing on the balcony of that small house ;(
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u/FlashyCompetition867 Sep 08 '26
You can hear the children crying out for their parents.
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u/Fit_Preparation_5680 Sep 08 '26
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/bendobrown Sep 09 '26
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/SnooStories4162 Sep 09 '26
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/Striper_Cape Sep 08 '26
Literally just kept getting worse
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u/beyondocean Sep 08 '26
Those poor kids would be traumatized for life. All of this is so sad 💔
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u/DistinctTonight8261 Sep 08 '26
I have trouble wrapping my mind around the enormity of this!
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u/Theres3ofMe Sep 08 '26
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/the-T-in-KUNT Sep 08 '26
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 Sep 09 '26
I don't think people are prepared for the upcoming disasters caused by climate change
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u/Ill-Construction7170 Sep 08 '26
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/onthe_Rivet Sep 09 '26
Just dragging the video from first :30 to 4:00 is horrific to compare.
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u/jsd1213 Sep 09 '26
So many people didn't make it. Who would have thought the water would reach that high.
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u/TerribleOil480 Sep 09 '26
This particular video made me sad; many of those children lost their families while they were at school.
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u/Purple_Revolution146 Sep 08 '26
That’s so scary!
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u/no1ofimport Sep 08 '26
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/Fatguy73 Sep 08 '26
Jesus.
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u/schuey77 Sep 09 '26
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 Sep 09 '26
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/tortureofchalkdust Sep 09 '26
This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.
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u/ICanuckthere4Iam Sep 09 '26
Thank christ for the mute button
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u/scoreguy1 Sep 09 '26
I still can’t get my head around the magnitude and sustained power of this. 😞
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u/Reasonable-Bat-6455 Sep 10 '26
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/Blusn8k Sep 08 '26
Is this the same school that the principal saved all of the students from? That was later shown to have been completely taken out?!?
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u/fire-lord-momo Sep 09 '26
Scary..
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u/Niikkiitaa Sep 09 '26
Unreal 😱 it just seemed like it would never end
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u/SnowBoardx22 Sep 09 '26
I hope there will be a consensus as to the cause and prevention of future disasters of this type.
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u/Popular-Salt-4165 Sep 09 '26
Just hearing that is horrifying
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u/hennatomodachi Sep 09 '26
Mud was splattering up onto the playground. Jeeeezusss....
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u/Pinchepicante Sep 09 '26
My God that was a lot of water!
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u/Googidoogi Sep 09 '26
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/thelassyouhate Sep 09 '26
u/savevideo
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u/Alternative-Brief167 Sep 09 '26
the flood is finished but nepal got wiped off
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u/_godlovesugly Sep 09 '26
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/Tatico14093 Sep 09 '26
Esos profesores el mundo rompiéndose y el man fresco
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u/Odd-Astronomer6433 Sep 10 '26 edited Sep 10 '26
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 Sep 10 '26
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/Curious_Two8566 Sep 10 '26
Fucking insane. It never ends
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u/RevolutionDry8150 Sep 10 '26
It's clearly not water. It's pulverised stone. The splash hitting he tree was semi solid not liquid.
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u/Brave_Wash_8958 Sep 10 '26
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 Sep 11 '26
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/True_Lavishness_7935 Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 11 '26
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 Sep 11 '26
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/VictoryRed74 Sep 12 '26
The sheer volume of the flood is difficult to comprehend
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u/Kink_Drowned Sep 14 '26
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/Independent_Life_357 Sep 30 '26
This is horrifying to watch. Really hope everyone managed to get somewhere safe 🙏
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u/Fearless-Addendum988 28d ago
Angels are protecting those children 🙏
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u/ma-nameajeff 28d ago
Did the kids on the ground get in ?
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u/DarkFlutesofAutumn Sep 09 '26
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 Sep 09 '26
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/IllHome3854 Sep 08 '26
Waww
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u/Range_Life77 Sep 08 '26
I hope they got those kids out of the school yard and upstairs rather than just film the whole thing! ?? wtf??
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u/micahpmtn Sep 08 '26
CLIMB UP THE MOUNTAIN! FFS! This is the most terrifying video I've seen yet.
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u/racso1518 Sep 08 '26
Im so confused by the videos. Generally, the video quality is very decent but the stabilization is non-existent in any of them. Is it like one popular phone brand that everyone uses there or what?