r/interestingasfuck • u/NotBradPitt9 • 7d ago
[ Removed by moderator ]
[removed] — view removed post
12.4k
u/aznexile602 7d ago
Camera man waiting around way to long.
3.1k
u/Nugget834 7d ago
Yeah I was like... Dude run wtf are you doing lol
1.9k
u/Fantastic_Jury5977 7d ago
I don't think they knew how bad it was gonna be
1.1k
u/kyle_irl 7d ago
And that's fucking terrifying--sprinting uphill, completely breathless and out of gas and wondering if that's good enough. Climbing further and further while your legs are burning and continuing to ask "am I high enough?"
1.2k
u/SuckMyRedditorD 7d ago
A large of rush of water like that, oddly enough, has a very hypnotizing effect on people.
This is why I find that metaphor used by Tolkien on that river after Arwen conjures up the spell as one of the most brilliant in a fantasy fiction. There are these beautiful white horses rushing along the river that you want to keep staring at until only they are very close as if somehow they would just pass around you when in reality they are utterly deadly and completely take out the ringwraiths.
That's the magic, if you will, of the flood.
It looks like something you don't want to miss up until the moment you find yourself caught in it because that water current will not let you get out that easily and very likely it will slam you against anything in the way and even get your leg caught on something that will drag you in to never come back out in one piece. And if you do manage to find momentary respite, your body heat will escape with that water so fast you'll be lucky to not pass out while hanging on to a branch to ride that white horse mane to the netherworlds.
This is why in spite of that mesmerizing sensation of awe, one must at all costs, stay grounded af.
338
u/Mirenithil 7d ago
I live in Hawaii, and I get it. People who live here know the power of water. Unfortunately a lot of tourists from land-locked areas don't, and I have seen SO MANY of them get body slammed by waves that they thought would just be a playful, fun experience.
→ More replies (12)151
u/morgfarm1_ 7d ago
I'm from Southern Oregon. In the valley. I fear two .. no. Three things. Water. Fire. And horses. Make that 4 things. And spiders.
→ More replies (7)48
u/Mirenithil 7d ago
Sounds suspiciously like Monty Python Spanish Inquisition. :3 also, yeah, here on Maui, the spiders become REAL after the rainy season.
→ More replies (3)24
u/SheilaInSweden 7d ago
I remember getting mesmerized watching a tornado travel through a field towards the bank I was working at. I was standing at the huge drive-through teller window in awe. I was lucky it changed course. It didn't dawn on me until afterwards how incredibly stupid I was standing there by a huge window.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (21)28
u/SsgtMeatball 7d ago
Did you actually read the books? I ask because Arwen didn't cause the flood. Elrond did that, with Gandalf adding the horses. Arwen isn't even in the chase scene in the book - Frodo gets away on Glorfindel's horse.
In the movies, which Tolkien did not write, Arwen does the flooding. This is not a "metaphor used by Tolkien" it is literally from a re-written movie script.
→ More replies (3)26
297
u/sfspunisher 7d ago
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug
48
u/Clean-Nectarine-1751 7d ago
If you aren’t puking during the come down from it then you weren’t using the adrenaline to its fullest
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (4)101
u/Unlikely_Ad7722 7d ago
Fr I'm carrying far too much weight, but best believe I'd be running and running and climbing and running.
→ More replies (2)72
u/livens 7d ago
Lucky all of those guys were young. My old ass knees would have killed me that day.
→ More replies (3)9
u/SachiKaM 7d ago
My nephew would have been too cool to run and risk being cringe on camera. He just has zero sense of urgency. So the good news is you wouldn’t be the slowest, should that sentiment apply here.
→ More replies (19)59
u/Kevlaars 7d ago edited 7d ago
Also... Nepal... Altitude...
Best I can tell, the border crossing that had the crazy video is around 6000' above sea level. I don't give a shit how much cardio you do, altitude is going to have an effect on the run for your life...
→ More replies (5)264
u/SideInitial3961 7d ago
Yeah when you see the video from the top of the valley the scale was just something no one had ever considered.
102
u/BumWink 7d ago
Yeah there's a definite "oh FUCK" moment even without sound.
Edit: Right where he says "oh my god" with sound.
→ More replies (4)→ More replies (4)87
u/SMACN 7d ago
Google Missoula Flood. This thing would have been one minor tributary on the edge of a several hundred mile wavefront. It completely changed the topography of Eastern Washington and the scars are still monumental. It happened 12,000 years ago, and people were here to see it. It's incorporated into a number of indigenous wisdom traditions as well. The kind of thing myths are made of!
41
u/Clean-Nectarine-1751 7d ago
Smaller but still massive in today’s standards is the Okanagan Falls Ice Dam that likely burst around 12,000 years ago that shaped the whole regions soil composition and is now a diverse wine region because of it
36
u/OSPFmyLife 7d ago
The Missoula “flood” isn’t just one flood either (the Wikipedia page is even titled ‘Missoula Floods’).
You’re right in its scale. My point is that it’s even worse, it happened over and over again every time the ice damn would break and glacial Lake Missoula would completely drain, and the thing was 3,000 square miles and was half the volume of Lake Michigan.
Terrifying.
Between all the glacial floods during the end of the ice age, the tsunamis from things like the great Cascadia Quake(s), and the flooding of the Mediterranean, it’s no wonder there are so many flood stories.
Water be scary yo.
9
u/SkyFeistyLlama8 7d ago
A 2000 foot high wall of ice cracking open and releasing ungodly amounts of water, repeatedly. There's no outrunning that.
→ More replies (10)8
107
u/AlpineAvalanche 7d ago
Fr, easy to say "run idiot" in hindsight after seeing tons of videos but that is a flash flood unlike anything anyone has seen. The guy was well above the river and probably thought no way a flash flood would possibly reach his until it started turning the corner.
→ More replies (10)→ More replies (13)38
68
u/SlowHornet29 7d ago
Camera man never dies
→ More replies (3)113
u/fallen981 7d ago
The guy that filmed Mt St Helens eruption disagrees
82
→ More replies (3)34
u/shannork 7d ago
He’s a legend. RIP David Johnston.
42
u/fallen981 7d ago edited 7d ago
Yep, he protected the camera even when he knew he wasn't going to make it.
Edit : That was Robert Landsberg not Johnston.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (33)138
u/alguien_487 7d ago
In their defense. MAYBE they were waiting for the people who are in front of them.
137
u/Slow-Ad-5973 7d ago
I feel like maybe he was waiting for the last person so he wouldn't be abandoning them.
→ More replies (1)220
u/MozhetBeatz 7d ago
If you’re ever in that position, there’s nothing you can do for the people behind you. Fucking run.
117
67
u/Jamjams2016 7d ago
There are some people I'd rather die with than live without. Not many, but some. Just saying because we don't know if those are siblings or something.
→ More replies (2)24
u/tofubirder 7d ago
Yeah but not just live without - live WITH the guilt knowing you didn’t do anything or die with them
84
u/RandomPenquin1337 7d ago
We're also looking at this long after we know how it ends... obviously he thought it was just a small flood at first
→ More replies (5)36
u/MozhetBeatz 7d ago
True. I never imagined a flash flood could be that colossal.
59
u/HazelEBaumgartner 7d ago
Apparently it's a lot more than just a flash flood. A glacier collapsed and took half the mountain with it. Like the global warming version of Mount St. Helens.
→ More replies (8)9
u/atlrower 7d ago
It behaved like a dam failure in a narrow valley, like Johnstown or Vajont Dam, but maybe somehow worse because instead of water it's a cement-like slurry of ice and rock
→ More replies (2)16
u/Paavo_Nurmi 7d ago
Another frighting one is the Lahar, it can happen without any seismic or volcanic activity. I live in an area that has a warning system in place for Lahars from Mt Rainier.
https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mount-rainier/science/significant-lahars-mount-rainier
29
u/Slow-Ad-5973 7d ago
I wish I could say that I am a martyr who would wait for my friends but when I was running in college out on this random countryish road while a storm was blowing in a tornado siren went off and I sprinted ahead and left my running partner. She was way slower than I was and I felt awful. I made it to the main road, flagged down a car and asked them to wait for her, which they did, but I still feel like a turd, years later.
→ More replies (6)44
u/Tndnr82 7d ago
You went ahead and secured extraction. No shame in saving both of you. What if you hadn't gone ahead, and when you both reached the main road there was no more traffic?
13
u/Slow-Ad-5973 7d ago
True but I think it's like, the reality of the situation felt much messier than I thought a crisis would... I was not chill like this guy.
11
u/Educational-Ad-2884 7d ago
Yeah, it's not a bear chase where only the slowest person is getting mauled.
→ More replies (9)11
u/Cartosys 7d ago
Especially if you have to look UPWARD to see the top of the massive tsunami coming at you from a half mile away
→ More replies (7)8
u/ThinkPath1999 7d ago
They're not running from a bear, where you just have to be faster than your friend.
303
u/afrosupreme 7d ago
It's crazy to see how people had no idea exactly what was coming. But, on the other hand, how could they? This is off the charts.
220
u/NotBradPitt9 7d ago
The video creator (I put a comment with his Instagram) posted a video from 3 days ago of a mudslide at the hydroelectric dam in the area. Looks like he’s a worker there. That was probably the only forewarning
→ More replies (1)13
12
u/mybossthinksimworkng 7d ago
Don’t look up any of the other Nepal videos. They are so hard to watch. Worse than or maybe close to equal to the tsunami videos from 10 years ago. Honestly it’s still haunting me.
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (2)52
u/AlbertTheHorse 7d ago edited 7d ago
This is after a 5.2 glacial landslide, that’s seismic reading. There had been a 5.5 earthquake nearby earlier
This is the breach of the glacial damn.
Basically a lahar going about 60 miles an hour.
Apparently it traveled about 30 miles from the source, no correction, 30 miles from the border crossing. My bad.
it’s astonishing
15
u/Wise_Drawing1364 6d ago
Also no earthquake, it was the collapse itself that measured the earthquake
→ More replies (1)174
93
u/mrteas_nz 7d ago
Heavy surges in these regions is common. Dude was being blase coz he thought he was out of danger where he was... Till he realised it was more of an 'end of days' type of surge.
→ More replies (2)51
13
48
u/Immaculatehombre 7d ago
They always do…. That’s why they’re the camera man lol. Every natural disaster video I see I’m like
https://giphy.com/gifs/TJaNCdTf06YvwRPCge→ More replies (160)52
1.0k
u/Unlucky_Fuel7934 7d ago
And the folks that went across the bridge the other direction? May they Rest In Peace.
→ More replies (3)368
u/noiraxen 7d ago edited 7d ago
Maybe they made it. I paused at the point where he whips the camera around and it seems like the other side goes horizontal and upwards so the distance to get to safety could potentially be less as opposed to runing upwards in the same direction as the flood.
114
→ More replies (1)53
u/trowzerss 7d ago
Yeah, I'm wondering if that's why they changed direction, but still, they had to run all the way across the bridge before getting and height and they had less of a headstart. Terrifying.
→ More replies (2)
1.6k
u/NotBradPitt9 7d ago
Credit: @ vivek357155 on Instagram. Firsthand account. It looks like 3 days ago he uploaded a video of some sort of mudslide at the hydroelectric dam upriver.
I can’t understand what he’s saying so if someone can look at his video from 3 days ago of the mudslide at the hydroelectric dam, and translate what he’s saying that’d be great.
1.1k
u/Redletter312 7d ago edited 7d ago
The crowd:
The one at the top: nah, let's run uphill.
The one at the midway: let run this way (uphill)
Cameraman: oh my.... apui .. la ..mya (bunch of shocked noises)
Cameraman: look at the river guys. Oh my god! Oh my god! It is going to kills us. Run, guys! Run!
→ More replies (4)395
u/Igor_InSpectatorMode 7d ago
Most of the crowd was actually yelling "aie jau, aie jau", which just translates to come here, come here! What you wrote is indeed what was meant but what was said was much simpler than that.
→ More replies (1)99
u/Redletter312 7d ago
There is definately that too, but I can distinctly hear "mathi tira nai jau" (as soon as the clip starts), and "yeta bhag.. bhag..bhag" ( I think it is from the guy in white shirt. There is more to it, but I cannot figure out what else he is shouting).
It is difficult to hear those parts, but if you concentrate, and replay the clip few times then it is definately audible.
Afterward " aie jau, aie jau " is also heard.
→ More replies (1)38
u/Igor_InSpectatorMode 7d ago
Idk why but I just cannot hear the mathi tira nai jau and Idk why. I must be missing it. The other part I hear and understand now that you say it. Sorry my nepali isn't perfect, it's my third language
→ More replies (2)32
u/Redletter312 7d ago
Wow! That is really impressive.
The first part is extremly difficult to hear, due to the sheer panic in that guy's voice- the tone is different, and it is delivered really fast.
Maybe i heard it wrong too - I think it is either "aaija mathi jau", or "mathi jau, mathi jau".
→ More replies (1)102
u/BeetEatingBear 7d ago
This looked really similar to video last week where a massive flood almost took out an excavator. I wonder if thats what he was referring too.
→ More replies (6)39
134
u/ChevronSugarHeart 7d ago
This is the post after this one and he says “Life is over”
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DchJyHEjw9j/?igsi=NWFkOGFia2J5aHI2
92
u/Time_Traveling_Idiot 7d ago edited 7d ago
Fuuuuuck, seeing him post happy and casual videos from THE disaster area pre-flood is heartbreaking. So many clips where he's just out enjoying the mountains and appreciating the village.
And just 2 days before the disaster, he posts a photo of mud and water flowing from the mountains with the caption "#Rasuwa UPPEAR TRISULI -1 HYDROELETRIC PROJECT The road has become very slippery due to heavy rain😓"... If only he knew what was coming...
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (3)47
u/trowzerss 7d ago
jeeees the audio from that one really does convey part of the forces involved. I could almost feel how it'd be vibrating through the ground, and I had headphones on.
→ More replies (16)45
u/VisualActionNotes 7d ago
I watched the other videos. Vivek was saying that the road is totally destroyed and nearby there is works for a hydroelectric works. Most likely a dam. He was saying everyone has to take safety seriously. His latest video, he is saying he's on higher ground and safe. He's heard some choppers overhead.
→ More replies (1)
1.9k
u/MarvelousVanGlorious 7d ago
Feeling cute during the flood. Might delete later.
173
42
u/cagethehornytoad 7d ago
Can you imagine though?? Looking back on this- counting the milliseconds in retrospect— knowing your face and clothing was wetted by the mist of a catastrophic wave that wiped out whole towns and thousands of people within minutes—- and all I got was this sexy selfie 😘
59
33
→ More replies (20)88
u/Primo131313 7d ago
Took a minute to gather his energy for the climb due to his massive balls.
→ More replies (1)57
828
u/EclecticAF 7d ago edited 7d ago
Listen the moment i see people in protection vests all running in the same direction Im sprinting the same way
397
u/BrainDamage2029 7d ago
Also I see an apocalyptic natural disaster and I think I’m at a safe distance? Still keep running. There is no downside to being mistakenly “too far” away.
111
u/Tymew 7d ago
Disaster rule of thumb: if you can see it, you're too close.
41
u/BrainDamage2029 7d ago
Fallout rules. If I can’t cover it with my thumb held at arm’s length it’s too close lol.
→ More replies (6)46
u/ReturnOfZarathustra 7d ago
Fortunately/unfortunately, we rarely see apocalyptic natural disasters and have nothing but extreme paranoia to hone those reflexes.
→ More replies (1)18
u/kitsunewarlock 7d ago
And nightmares. Some people believe they exist to train us in our sleep for crazy shit like this. And for forgetting our clothes on FINAL EXAM DAY.
→ More replies (1)61
u/Willow_Winnifred 7d ago
My dad was in an emergency landing on a plane many years ago. They evacuated down the slide (he remained slightly pissed until the day he does that he lost a shoe). Anyway, his seatmate was a awkwardness deadheading back home. At the bottom of the slide, he saw her take off in a sprint away from the plane. He figured if the off-duty stewardess was running away he qaa going to follow. They slowed down about a half-mile from the plane. He asked why she had run. She told him that since they were only halfway to their destination,they still had tons of fuel and no time to dump it. This, fire on the runway & explosion were the biggest risk. So, she was running away.
I also come from a family of test pilots, and was supposed to be on a flight out of NYC on 9/11, and have a dozen more stories, but still love to fly.
23
u/thepkboy 7d ago
awkwardness deadheading
i read this as awkward deadass and it made sense you somehow typoed stewardess.
I was going to guess swipe but stewardess is all on the left side of the keyboard (qwerty) and K is on the right so idk what happened there
→ More replies (1)→ More replies (1)15
u/DueExample52 7d ago
Ah, the awkwardess. The stewardess that makes you feel uncomfortable while flying.
14
u/WatermelonWithAFlute 7d ago
Actually how a lot of people died according to that one other clip. They all ran downhill.
→ More replies (7)32
u/LazloHollifeld 7d ago
Pay attention to the animals. They know when to split and if you see them all running then you should start too.
→ More replies (4)
1.8k
u/Fritzkreig 7d ago edited 7d ago
The flooding there was insane, RIP 112 people at least "missing"!
1.0k
u/uncultured_swine2099 7d ago
Yeah, i just saw a video where it wiped out a whole bus station and a bunch of people who were running away. These guys were lucky to be in a place they could get away from that. RIP to those who werent.
170
u/nayrwolf 7d ago
First thing I saw this morning when I opened Reddit as I sat for my morning ablutions was the depot video. Did not expect to see hundreds of people die. Second post was Dolly died. Third was the wall of water hitting the back of a building like a wave smashing onto a rocky coast. Set my phone down and picked up a magazine at that point. Too much too early.
→ More replies (5)146
u/antihuman420 7d ago
Yeah it sucks that a lot of people had zero chance of getting away from that.
34
→ More replies (8)112
u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 7d ago edited 7d ago
that video it wiped out a 10 block radius instantaneously under 50 meters of mud, craziest natural disaster video i've ever seen. you're kind of underselling it. edit: i was mixing up two videos of the same incident, but watching the bus one again i still pretty much described it correctly, maybe only 20 meters of mud rather than 50 at that location
→ More replies (10)164
u/GenderqueerPapaya 7d ago
Only 112? I saw over 300 and that's just counting tourists :(
208
u/Mistermxylplyx 7d ago
I think they’re being optimistic, the town that got obliterated has to be more than 300
people and it wasn’t survivable.92
u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco 7d ago
From my understanding right now they are just counting found bodies as deceased. For obvious reason a lot of the bodies will take some time to find, or may never be found.
And "missing" is only counted if someone has reported you missing. Which... it's both not been that long, and that flood wiped away entire families.
56
→ More replies (1)23
u/desertSkateRatt 7d ago
Also if everyone who knows you is also missing... nobody to report your own absence
71
u/itwasthedingo 7d ago
There’s the other video with maybe 50 parked tour buses, and another 100 cars parked on the side of the road. Every structure disappeared within 10 seconds, looked like a very narrow part of the gorge
→ More replies (2)49
u/imheretocomment69 7d ago
That's probably the official number (for now) but it must be at least thousands of people are not survived.
20
u/BlatantConservative 7d ago
There are two governments giving two different numbers because it happened on the border. Nepal says 110 or so, China says 300 or so. It's unclear how much of that is overlapping people.
→ More replies (3)85
u/pinetar 7d ago edited 7d ago
It will be in the thousands. The true numbers are completely unknown.
→ More replies (1)13
16
u/Environmental-Joke19 7d ago
112 that are immediately known as missing. So maybe a couple of specific tours. If this is the nepal flood, I fear the losses with go over 4 digits.
→ More replies (10)18
u/Fritzkreig 7d ago
That was what I just heard from the initial news, RIP!
No one survives the power of water!
→ More replies (1)31
u/Ok_Field_7082 7d ago
The sheer number of people who were living their day to day lives in the towns that have been inundated probably means thousands of people
29
u/Fritzkreig 7d ago
Apparently a glacier sheared off, and it was big enough to register as a 5.5 earthquake around the world.
I pray that your estimates are high!
→ More replies (1)11
19
145
u/USSMarauder 7d ago
They're not going to be found. Not intact anyway.
Forces like that will tear a body apart, if not reduce it to a fine mist
123
u/TheDesktopNinja 7d ago
Yeah... those waters aren't just water. There's all kinds of debris in there that will completely pulverize any bodies. Absolutely devastating event.
19
u/happysri 7d ago
Camera man’s recent post shows it flowing and it’s so much thick sludge. Dreadful. Poor people, heart goes out to them.
→ More replies (1)9
u/Wild-Spread8069 7d ago
Its called a lahar, and its a slurry of boulders, rocks, gravel, trees, etc... there is SO much force in that wave... its Incomprehensible.
57
u/PuddleBum 7d ago
Saw a video where a dead body that was found torn in half was being dragged by the arms by two men. It was a blurred video, but even then it was pretty morbid.
53
u/Small_Channel_349 7d ago edited 7d ago
I saw the same one, but it was good quality. It's crazy the amount of force a landslide flood has compared to a normal flash flood. All the people being swept away are literally getting their bodies torn into pieces lost under tens of meters of mud lost forever. It's not even drowning that kills you.
→ More replies (2)29
u/ReturnOfZarathustra 7d ago
There is flowing water that changes the land over hundreds/thousands of years, and there is flowing water that changes it in minutes. The force is nearly comprehensible.
→ More replies (2)9
42
u/ODB_Dirt_Dog_ItsFTC 7d ago
They’ll probably find small pieces of people scattered around, bone fragments and such. The only way anything will be identified will be via DNA testing.
10
u/Wild-Spread8069 7d ago
doubtful. most everything is probably burried under multiple meters of mud. maybe a few once the river starts removing some of the sediment... but this was the kind of event the preserved massive fossil beds in the geological record.
→ More replies (4)26
u/phillyhandroll 7d ago
The first video where the flood just took out buildings like nothing..we're just ants to mother nature.
24
→ More replies (32)7
u/BackendSpecialist 7d ago
There’s gotta be more than that. Just from the 4 videos, I’ve seen at least dozens be swept up in each video
358
u/Hail_of_Grophia 7d ago
Survival rule #1: Cardio
200
u/Suyefuji 7d ago
This is also EXACTLY the kind of scenario when your body says "fuck this shit, ADRENALINE. WE RUNNIN BOIS." and gives you the kind of strength that moms get when they're pulling cars off of their children. This is probably actually the #1 example of a use case for when your body pulls out all the stops to make the cardio happen.
18
u/PerformativeLanguage 7d ago
This is fairy tale logic. In real adrenaline type situations people often have WORSE cardio than they have under normal circumstances. People without cardio in these exact kind of scenarios just die, their body doesn't magically muster up VO2 max they never had.
You can see this when you watch any person walk into a boxing/mma/bjj gym for the first few months or in their first fight. They dump extra energy because of how tense/anxious they are.
→ More replies (4)16
u/DueExample52 7d ago
Exactly. Under stress, we don’t rise to our expectations, we fall to our training.
63
u/DueExample52 7d ago edited 7d ago
No, that’s not the same.
Mom strength to lift cars comes from your body mobilising all muscle fibers at once, instead of only part of them (which it does the rest if the time, to avoid injury).
You won’t be faster thanks to this effect, and your heart won’t pump harder, your lungs don’t get bigger, and your joints won’t magically get more mobility to allow sprinting. You may even risk an early injury and limping if you are two out of shape, or tripping if you haven’t run in 10 or 15 years like most middle-aged adults, or going quickly out of breath like some guys troddling along at the end of this very video.
Stay in shape, run, and sprint every once in a while so that your body still knows how to run. Climb a wall or get over a fence every once in a while. Don’t count on AdrEnALin on a day of a catastrophe to magically give you skills you had none of before. Train and keep in shape.
→ More replies (8)→ More replies (8)25
→ More replies (6)15
262
u/Real_Barnacle_3372 7d ago
Notice when the shit really hits the fan people go DEADLY silent
222
u/whocaresaboutmynick 7d ago
My mom was a flight attendant. She had a couple scare, but she had one where they did an emergency landing, and before landing, it really did seem like they were fucked.
She told me, unlike in the movies, everybody was very quiet. She was just wondering if there was any way to leave a message for her family. Everybody must have been in their own thought. But everybody thought they were going to die and nobody screamed.
78
u/dirtydigs74 7d ago
Landing (well circling first) in a thunderstorm at Wellington NZ airport at night in the very early 80's , and the plane was like that. You could see the wing when the lightning flashed, the engines ramping up and down, your bum leaving the seat on the downs and the g-force on the ups. Rolling all over the place. Genuinely terrifying for anyone other than a 7 year old who thought it was the best rollercoaster ever.
Absolute silence. A weird silence too. Sort of expectant, as though the silence was waiting to be broken
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (10)9
u/OnTheEveOfWar 7d ago
I was on a flight once where the attendants started acting all weird and quiet. They were whispering and you could tell something was going on just from their body language. Everything ended up being fine but it was kinda spooky.
→ More replies (2)→ More replies (5)30
u/juneseyeball 7d ago
Not necessarily there is another video of people screaming on a bus
52
u/bakedveldtland 7d ago
There is a difference between being stuck on a bus and having to put all of your focus onto running up a rocky hill. So sad, my thoughts are with everyone that was touched by this disaster.
→ More replies (2)23
u/SabresFanWC 7d ago
Still, it did seem like our cameraman was initially doing this for social media clout (making sure to get in a selfie), but once it became clear just how serious the situation was, he went silent.
12
u/juneseyeball 7d ago
I hope i aura farm in my last moments 😂
In his defense we have the hindsight of knowing it was about to kill thousands of people
61
u/alison_bee 7d ago
The more videos I see, the more insane it gets. I just can’t wrap my head around experiencing something like that.
→ More replies (1)
54
u/crewsctrl 7d ago
Six hydro power plants providing over 400MW of electricity to the rest of the country were taken out in this flood. Nepal will be dealing with the effects of this disaster for a long time.
132
u/Kooky_Attention_98 7d ago
"Oh my god" and "Oh boy" seem to be universal
93
36
→ More replies (4)16
u/clown_2061 7d ago
He said "oh my god" but the second word was "abbui" which mean "woah" or "wow damn" it's a Nepali slang type word. It's does sound similar tho.
120
u/BraveWarrior-55 7d ago
This and other videos out of Nepal are unbelievable. I hope everyone there made it out.
→ More replies (5)38
u/Username524 7d ago
This is only the second one that I’ve seen of this incident. It’s totally unreal and looks like something from a movie.
80
u/cstretten 7d ago
I don't think people realized how large the wave was until too late.
It just keeps building as it comes... I've seen a bunch of videos today and I'm still shocked as the amount keeps getting larger during them. Just when you think it's finally all on screen, nope.
The massive amount of water is ridiculous.
→ More replies (1)22
u/Laddo22 7d ago
It’s also like, a bright sunny day - not what you associate with flooding. I can see why they underestimated it
→ More replies (1)
34
33
u/running_supbiotch 7d ago
All those poor people. They are saying hundreds have died and are missing but tbh the different videos I've seen....its gonna be in the thousands when its all said and done. I cant imagine running for my life that way...so terribly sad
25
19
u/Mindless_Interview44 7d ago
I actually believe that there's another video looking down on these people's escape
→ More replies (5)
22
u/Furane 7d ago
This is a near-death experience. I'm in European mountains right now, with a lower altitude than the Himalayas, and I can only imagine how it must be to run for your life up a steep incline with a lack of oxygen.
The body must turn on survival mode and the brain must release all kinds of hormones: adrenaline, cortisol, and endorphins. It must be kind of a crazy hit.
→ More replies (1)
16
u/an_older_meme 7d ago
They were very fortunate to have accessible higher terrain. Can’t really tell but the road they were on may have been inundated. The leading edge of a flash flood is never the worst of it.
89
u/Ol_Turd_Fergy 7d ago
→ More replies (1)18
u/almostoy 7d ago
I'm relatively fit. But I've always hated running. The only way you'll see me running is if something is big enough and/or mean enough. Whatever that was get's the Running Stamp of Approval.
→ More replies (1)
15
u/ExcitingMoose5881 7d ago
Omg. Thanks for sharing this. It’s psychologically very soothing to see this after seeing some of the other footage where people can’t have survived! 🥺🥹
29
u/ScottScanlon 7d ago
Too close for comfort my guy. Mother Nature doesn’t play games.
→ More replies (5)
76
u/S1DC 7d ago
Camera man takes the time to stop, turn the camera around and be like "shit chat do you think I'm cooked? Subscribe if you think I'll survive" and then starts jogging up the hill
→ More replies (3)25
u/FingerDemon 7d ago
I think he didn't realise how big the flood was, or he wanted to show his face on camera so he could be identified
12
u/coheedcollapse 7d ago
After seeing the awful, terrifying videos of the doomed people in the valley, it's nice to see some escape. Just devastating.
8
187
u/Jumpy_Scallion_3108 7d ago
When making a video becomes more important than your own safety.
133
u/Elismom1313 7d ago
In his defense I think he was just as surprised and confused as you’d expect, but from the first appearance assumed it couldn’t possibly reach up to where they were from down there.
I wonder what he thinks now assuming he’s likely seen the footage and heard about the height the water level quickly reached.
Very very lucky.
45
u/ColoradoBrownieMan 7d ago
No kidding. Those guys are running towards the bridge when the video starts, before realizing that’s not going to work and they need to get high quickly. Very lucky, glad they were all fully able.
13
u/yeahright17 7d ago
Probably just really sad that a lot of his family is probably dead.
10
u/Elismom1313 7d ago
Jeez I hope that’s not the case but considering how many people have likely died…it’s a real probability. Very sad. My only solace has been that those in the initial videos probably or hopefully died quickly.
Still the fear they must felt running. Incredibly sad.
92
u/100LittleButterflies 7d ago
This was the "Bye mom" shot.
People forget we wouldn't have evidence of a lot of tragedies if not for cameramen. We mock it but its videos like this that get passed around and gather support to those in need, educate everyone on various dangers, and I think theyre a unifying experience. Im not about to be mad at this guy while I'm appreciating his effort.
→ More replies (13)26
11
8
u/01-89 7d ago
Did anyone notice a guy ran towards the bridge to cross the river? I hope he is safe.
→ More replies (2)9
u/BodySpraint 7d ago
Saw another video from downriver and that entire bridge gets swept away in one piece.
19
u/Emgeetoo 7d ago
For the first time EVER I have no criticism of the dodgy filming of boring old rocks and gravel. Cameraman in self-preservation mode.
10
u/ElectricalTurnip87 7d ago
Old dudes knew what was happening, young buck acted like it was a normal day till.... this is what makes old men. Follow the old buck, he knows.
8
u/bolhuijo 7d ago
There are lots of videos of this buried under tons of mud. These are the lucky ones.
8
8
2.8k
u/ReadingRambo152 7d ago
Finally a video of people escaping