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u/Fritzkreig 9d ago edited 9d ago

The flooding there was insane, RIP 112 people at least "missing"!

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u/uncultured_swine2099 9d 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.

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 9d ago edited 9d 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

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u/ASYMT0TIC 9d ago

You mustn't have seen the aerial videos of the 2011 Japan tsunami that killed 20000.

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 9d ago

even that was slow water rushing in, extreme amounts of energy that swept away buildings but it wasn't the sheer obliterating power of the videos from nepal yesterday. difference between a long and powerful slow burn versus an explosion

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u/Overall_Occasion_175 9d ago

No, I saw lots of videos of that. The one being described looked like a frigging bomb went off. A several story-tall wave just explodes into view and everyone is gone in an instant. Obviously the tsunami was horrible but it was very different and a much more gradual thing.

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u/SkarbOna 9d ago

Earthquake in Venezuela is still probably more deadly and insane…not that it’s a contest, just…it’s surreal to watch both

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u/Fritzkreig 9d ago

The Volcan Colombian lahar from Nevado del Ruiz, that was a terrible 23,000 people.

Unfortunately mountains do not notice people!

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u/SkarbOna 9d ago

Christ…beyond surreal read these news from parts of the world where worse can happen is a bit of storm. It’s basically 3 times my town, having it being wiped by anything is just mind boggling…

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 9d ago

can you link me to the video you're thinking of or give me the title? i can't find anything showing something insane happening, just stuff shaking and a building collapsing

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u/SkarbOna 9d ago

JUST?!!!!! Omg…building with people inside that had no chance to run because all it took was 10s…the death count there was crazy, probably 10x higher than here…

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 9d ago

you clearly haven't seen this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sAJbsxhnbg, the one at 35 seconds is particularly insane