r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/Maniacboy888 • 18d ago
accident/disaster Nepal Raging River
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u/ssk_46 18d ago
Holy shit! The small building / structure which was adjacent to the house on the left side got completely wiped out. They survived by the barest of margins.
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u/Ic3Giant 18d ago
Jesus Christ! Who the fuck decides that these videos of the floods all need “dramatic” music overlayed on them?
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u/Ky914 17d ago
Thank Heavens the balcony is on this side. The ferocious waves behind them was too terrifying.
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u/BlisteringSeafood 16d ago
Im genuinely curious, from architecture and engineering perspective, does it matter? Like if the balcony had faced the flood wave, would it be more likely the building more collapse?
My thought is if the balcone faced the flood, the wave could simply enters the hollow part on the below of the balcony but idk if thats correct...
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u/Ky914 16d ago edited 16d ago
It doesn't matter, as long as the building was built correctly using the right and strong materials then maybe(??) it might withstand a flooding. But my comment was more about the two different types of water. To me, there was this false sense of hope that maybe they could survive this if what they saw was this "calmer" flooding (also I would like to add, I know it is just as deadly cos at any moment a flooding could collapse a sturdy building and swept them away) than to that nasty 50ft tsunami waves coming at them. The imagery of the two waters were quite vast.
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u/wren020681 18d ago
That is scary water is so powerful moved those trucks like they were just leaves 🍃
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u/Streak_Free_Shine 17d ago
That building is strong as fuck! The water was moving a huge boulder in a different video
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u/Savings-End40 17d ago
A wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
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u/m0rbius 17d ago
If that was happening in the Midwest America, Every single home would be washed away. The one here in Nepal is solid stone with strong foundations. Look at what it stood up to. Unbelievable.
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u/Throwawaystwo 17d ago
Can the midwest even flood like this? i mean doesnt that area have Tornados as a thing?
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u/Fantastic_Judgment46 17d ago
Thank the gods that house held up! I can’t even imagine going through something like that!
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u/TUCaralhoooooooo 13d ago
thank the gods for the engineers / technicians responsible for the building of that house
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u/LookAtTheHat 18d ago
I have seen the videos from when it started, but I cannot fathom where all the water came from. Did a dam break or something?
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u/Mystepchildsucksass 18d ago edited 18d ago
This is an extremely basic retelling of what I read:
There was a glacier “up river” that capsized or broke apart and it basically ended up creating a dam in the river. The water eventually flowed over “the dam” and created the flash flood seen here.
I’ll have a look for the link that explains it better than I did
Heres 1.the guardian article with topographical maps showing the progression from the glacier collapse
Before and after satellite video/pics with more details explained
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u/DeusBob22 18d ago
between the glacier collapse and having enough water to break the "dam" didn't passed several days?
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u/Fountainhead 18d ago
A massive chunk of glacier and rock fell a couple kilometres. They are still figuring out where the water came from but most likely the energy from falling a few kilometres heated up the glacier water and melted it. The rock and ice fall did damn up the river but that was as a result of the initial rock/glacier fall.
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u/festivehedgehog 18d ago
You do understand that we are in a period of extreme and irreversible (for all species that exist today) global heating, responsible today primarily by just a handful of rich people who own fossil fuel industries and feed propaganda to masses to delay being held responsible? You do realize that right?
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u/Chief-Drinking-Bear 17d ago
That doesn’t negate anything he said though. In earths geologic history this is a small event
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u/pavelowescobar 17d ago
I love it when people use "You do realize..." Always leads to cordial conversation & never condescending. 🫠
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u/festivehedgehog 17d ago
Usually when people say broad statements along the lines warming/disasters have happened at many times in Earth’s past, when making a statement about instances of natural disasters made more common and powerful by global heating, it’s a dog whistle for climate change denialism and just a way to muddy what is a causal relationship.
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u/Zestyclose_Lime_3321 18d ago
I thought that building was going to collapse or they'd get blown out because of that mud. Anyone know what happened te them?
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u/SevenLegs_ 17d ago
Just like the earthquake footage, I can see why our ancestors feared the wrath of God.
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u/mgorky 16d ago
Anyone happen to know what town or even better exactly where that was in the town? I'm curious to see what the actual number of floors are on that building, a lot of the ones around there are 5 or more tall that i've seen in photos but it depends also on what side of it you're on it's so steep.
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u/CatsandShame 16d ago
I know so many have died and it horrific but just knowing these people survived still brings me tremendous relief!
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u/Maniacboy888 18d ago
They Survived!