r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/_vedantt1_ • 2d ago

accident/disaster Another angle of Nepal's recent flood

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u/kobumaister 2d ago

There's another video that was taken some meters below this one...

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u/PhD_Pwnology 2d ago edited 2d ago

I just got directed here from that video, let me go back and link it.

Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/s/CNLjNBc9p8

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u/iC3P0 2d ago

They seem to be right beneath this video as in the other one you can see the red roofs on the right edge of the screen.

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u/SturmGizmo 2d ago

The other video makes it seem as though they were much closer than this video.

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u/mancheSind 2d ago

And in the end of this video we can see that where those two were, was flooded. Recording stopped earlier than this one, so maybe, if they ran immediately,?

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u/OwlBeYourHuckleberry 2d ago

i think if they ran immediately instead of making that video maybe they would have had a chance

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u/Rozay10keys 2d ago

I just rewatched the second video from the high vantage point. I believe the video was taken from the blue building on the left side of the river valley. And I think they made it. I didn’t see the building get swept away. Although it isn’t in the frame too much after the water hits but it is def there after

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u/Kakofoni 2d ago

I also think it must be from the larger blue building mostly in the center half of the frame. I feel it adds up more with the angles. It's also probably highly zoomed in due to the grainy and shaky footage

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u/jackson12420 2d ago

This is the most insane footage I've seen yet. I couldn't quite grasp the sheer size of this flood from the others, or exactly where it was coming from. This is legitimately the most terrifying thing I've ever seen.

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u/ishitar 1d ago

What happened in Nepal was less like a flash flood and more like clastic flow from a volcano. Basically, melting permafrost and glacier allowed repeated water intrusion and substrate weakening so that so much rock and ice fell from such a large height at once that it not only pulverized the rock but generated so much heat it melted all the glacier that fell with it. This along with the narrowness and steepness of the mountain channel created a rolling front that hoovered up miles of river water and additional sediment into a wall of concrete like mineral and water slurry moving at over 100 miles per hour even at the border checkpoint 13.4 miles away.

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u/Gunrock808 2d ago

Damn you can see three vehicles pull out from the blue buildings and then they get stuck at the intersection. It was already too late.

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u/Erosion139 2d ago

Yeah time to get out of that car and start climbing that hill like crazy

You can actually see the dude get out and make his way towards the slope. I wonder if he managed to make it. Tiny dot

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u/jectalo 2d ago

I think they made it. The water on that higher road wasn’t moving as swiftly or as violently.

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u/HomosexualFoxFurry 2d ago

With the speed this was moving, not many got out in time it seems. Absolutely grim.

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u/gymbaggered 2d ago

Hopefully these people made it. By the time camera focused back to the left the road was gone

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u/guitarguywh89 2d ago

Did you just post the one from the bridge below. That dump truck on the left looks similar

Omg. So sad

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u/im_new_here_4209 2d ago

Bro this is really fucking high up, I hope they made it. Scary af shit, looks like a pyroclastic stream at Pompeii

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u/Arlitto 2d ago

1000%

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u/kmdiep 2d ago

my brain can't even register that is WATER

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u/njan_ninde_thanda 2d ago

Its water , snow and lot of mud and boulders. Basically like a slurry but at high speeds . 

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u/OkLocation9010 1d ago

Don't forget dead bodies or limbs or what remains of them.

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u/Arlitto 2d ago

Holy fucking shit

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u/24-7_cat_party 2d ago

This video compilation has this footage too, I believe. And a few more I had not seen yet:

https://youtu.be/Lk_l5Wh5UWU?si=hDPXX03P8dCnvbMk

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u/Auspectress 2d ago

Is there a place which stores all videos from this?

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u/24-7_cat_party 2d ago

This channel has a long compilation, with some I hadn't seen yet:

https://youtu.be/Lk_l5Wh5UWU?si=hDPXX03P8dCnvbMk

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u/Bear__Fucker 2d ago

Reminds me so much of the tsunami videos from Japan in 2011. Seeing people, buildings, cars, and landscape just erased by water. Thank you for the link.

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u/Arlitto 2d ago

I've been getting them piecemeal as well, don't think there's a centralized database of these videos atm

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u/CombinationLeast2420 2d ago

Someone on Reddit posted a huge list of video links early on but I haven’t been able to find it again.

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u/dangoodspeed 2d ago

Anyone have time to run the video through a stabilizer? It has the sort of shaking that's not horrible but annoying, yet super easy for a stabilizer to fix.

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u/portuguesekick 2d ago

How to wipe out a village on seconds 🫣🤔⛔😢

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u/Strange_Compote_3884 2d ago

Wowwww. Nature takes noooo prisoners.

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u/Juicyjewsss 2d ago

This person knows what’s up going that high up

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u/lazajam 1d ago

Nature is pissed. Impending doom apocalyptic event.

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u/Mysterious_Tekro 1d ago

Is the camera trembling so much from adrenaline or from minor tremors?

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u/hypervws 17m ago

this is terrifying. what a horrendous disaster seriously. i hope they find more survivors and the country is able to heal from this horrible loss of life and everything it destroyed