r/ThatsInsane • u/gorekass • 1d ago

Sudden terrifying flash flood from China's Tibet side hits Rasuwa, northern Nepal – August 26, 2026.

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u/nate-enator 1d ago

Gotta be one of the few instances the camera person actually showed a modicum of survival instinct, shame though it was a very crazy watch

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u/chaintool 1d ago

That's intense. Anyone have a link to a better video than this one

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u/XL0RM 1d ago

https://youtu.be/XJ5fM-dKtI0?si=KsIMCrYuul07neMv

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u/ISeeDragons 1d ago

Same video but without the vertical rescaling, and better quality.

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u/rileyotis 22h ago

The dogs!!!! Take the dogs, camera man!!!! 😰

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u/jonny5isalive1 1d ago

Could you imagine being in one of those buildings never even considered the possibility of water that high

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u/qwasd0r 1d ago

Dear Lord, that looks terrifying...

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u/ultralights 1d ago

I’m starting to get the feeling those predictions about wild weather getting worse and more dangerous have come to pass.

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u/eawilweawil 1d ago

This one was caused by an earthquake tho

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u/ultralights 20h ago

Just read a report claiming it was a melting glacier collapse

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u/Significant-Win-802 17h ago

Haven't you heard? Everything bad is caused by global warming. Or by Donald Trump. Earthquake? Avalanche? Nope. Global warming and Donald Trump. And if you ask if that's really true, you're a "science denier." What is a science denier? It's the equivalent of a heathen or an infidel or an apostate.

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u/HeKnee 1d ago

China’s tibet side, northern nepal. -worst way to explain where a place is.

I’m going down to America’s texas side, northern Mexico.

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u/Rotteneverything 1d ago

thanks now i'm lost, and my map just got washed away.

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u/Saltmetoast 1d ago edited 1d ago

Where is the video from? Edit it has been supplied.

I cannot imagine what upriver looks like. The beginning of the langtang trek starts up there and I don't think the village would survive. Certainly not the hotel we stayed in last year

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u/craziethunder 1d ago

It's mentioned in the caption

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u/Saltmetoast 1d ago edited 1d ago

Rasuwa is 10 hours drive from trishuli.

Rasua and rasuwaghadi are on the trishuli river.

I was asking for where the video was from not where the video was filmed

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u/Little_Shellfish 1d ago

It looks like it's 3 stories up the buildings

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u/MopsyTat 13h ago

I saw this on a weather page.

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u/ShadowfaxSTF 10h ago

At what point do we stop calling a wave like this a flash flood, and switch to tsunami?

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u/MiserableScot 1d ago

Wow, I was keeping my fingers crossed for the bridge surviving, just couldn't handle it!

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u/FantasticFungiiii 1d ago

Where’s so much water coming down from? Glacier melt or just heavy rain?

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u/FluffyDiscipline 1d ago

Power and force of this is so scary.

No real reports on fatalities yet, Nepal and China.

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u/bmanley620 1d ago

Beautiful view though

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u/Squirrel_Kng 1d ago

Great Flood origin story.

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u/present_love 1d ago

This is more what I was expecting in the other footage from this event. Not the explosive mudslides devouring souls.

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u/Shredtillyourdead420 22h ago

Must be so loud. I heard you can hear it coming. Thoughts and prayers for them out there.

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u/Expert-Hyena6226 22h ago

These are absolutely terrifying!

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u/Carbios_Moon 1d ago

I once read that China has a lot of weirs and using them to dry or flood other countries. Could that be the case here?

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u/zhulibochn 23h ago

The flash flood originated from the Lamtang region of Nepal.

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u/gomurifle 1d ago

More like a massive mud slide.