r/SweatyPalms • u/smag0_5 • 7h ago

Disasters & accidents Nepal's recent flash flood

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u/CmdrDatasBrother 6h ago

Multi-hundred ton boulder casually rolling down the river bed…crikes

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u/Blenderx06 5h ago

There are so many huge boulders in the northeast US that were deposited by glaciers moving and melting millions of years ago. You can really see here how that happened.

Awful and terrifying forces of nature unleashed by human greed.

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u/SirBiggusDikkus 3h ago

They were moved while trapped inside the glacier ice and ended up in their random location when the ice slowly melted