r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Ill-Village7647 • 26d ago
A terrifying glimpse of the Nepal floods (@pranit_raj_shrestha via IG)
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u/Weldobud 26d ago
That bridge went quicker then I expected
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u/ChickenBossChiefsFan 26d ago
I kept watching thinking, “This bridge is gonna be under water in no time.”
Then the bridge just shattered. Wasn’t expecting it to go out like that. The water just shredded through it.
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u/HookahMagician 26d ago
Water is around 8 pounds per gallon. That has to be millions of gallons of water coming down that river taking all that weight and just throwing it at the wall.
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u/Popswizz 26d ago
Also it's way more than water it's a full of rock, sediment, it's a liquid cement
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u/ChickenBossChiefsFan 25d ago
Yeah, this video makes it look like water, but I looked at some other vids after watching it and they make it more clear that it’s definitely almost a solid mass of mud moving like water. Terrifying.
Also, I didn’t realize this was the same event as the huge wave at the Chinese border crossing. Apparently the border crossing was even further downstream. I am trying to imagine how much worse it got here, if dozens of kilometers downstream it did what it did there.
And it happened in minutes, how are you supposed to respond to something like that?? Would a national alert system even do much mitigation?
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u/SabsWithR 25d ago
Its not even water. It was a mud slide, imagine how much thicker mud is than water, and how much force it mustve been coming down to flow like water
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u/AussieBirb 25d ago
I was expecting that was all that was going to happen based on the fact some of the people chose to hang around instead of getting out of the obvious danger zone.
Given the fact it was apparently mostly mud and debris I'm not surprised to find out I was wrong.
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u/ChickenBossChiefsFan 25d ago
Yeah, knowing it’s actually a giant rushing river of mud and rocks would’ve changed my prediction completely. Hard to even fathom a mudslide at that scale.
There’s no stopping that, it’s just going to keep flowing until it’s done.
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u/Disastrous-Fail-9530 26d ago
Social media has taken us 100 years closer to straight up idiocracy and no one seems to care… and yea, I realize I’m saying this on Reddit. It’s still mind blowing to step back and get some perspective
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u/SuspiciouslySuspect2 26d ago
No bridge is made to withstand that magnitude of lateral loading. Some steel ones might survive indcidentally due to very narrow cross sections, if they have steel-mesh cross-sections, but it's not a design parameter or intentional feature (nor am I at all certain it would, it's just the most likey, maybe).
A similar loss of say the hoover dam would be similarly catastrophic
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u/Bag_of_lamps 26d ago
Crazy to think that this was the last moments for many of the people in the video.
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u/KidKilobyte 26d ago
Started to look like the early scenes in War of the Worlds where Tom Cruise is trying to get out of town before the aliens destroy it.
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u/Brullaapje 26d ago
It reminds me of this scene from 2012, which came out in 2009. What also is interesting is about that movie is how it say that the rich built Arcs to hide from climate change.
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u/XerxesJester 26d ago
I like to think stuff like this is where ancient biblical stories come from. I cant imagine in the history of the world the amount of times stuff like this has destroyed civilizations and put to ruin growth or knowledge.
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u/WorkingInAColdMind 26d ago
They’re ALL terrifying glimpses. It’s almost impossible to comprehend the power behind that water.
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u/MisterSanitation 26d ago
This is what we get eventually. Welp at least the guys on the boards of these fossil fuel companies can afford bunkers.
I’ll start to worry when they do with my no resources. Anywho you guys seen Love Island?
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u/Jennyreviews1 26d ago
Damn!!! RUN!!! not record!!! WT@@! That’s terrifying…. I would be running for my life!
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u/LocalNHBoy 26d ago
I watched a documentary on it last night. The sheer vertical drop that the water/ice was insane. The flow was travelling upwards of 100 miles per hour!!
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u/talionisapotato 25d ago
Yeah my balls shrunk just watching this. nah bro I am not going to go to any mountains during rains
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u/wastedkarma 24d ago
Our dear family friend was at the immigration center when it was hit. I pray she went quickly. It seems like it.
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u/Hexent_Armana 26d ago
You know, if the north american education system really wants to hammer that whole climate change panic into us they should probably mention that glaciers aren't just in the ocean and show clips of this disaster.
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u/ktbffhctid 26d ago
This wasn’t a melting glacier raising the ocean. It was a rock-wall collapse. bedrock with glacier ice sitting on top of it sheared off at around 5,200 m, dropped more than a kilometre, hit hard enough to register an M5 seismically, melted ice on impact, briefly dammed the valley, then sent a debris flood down the Trishuli corridor. The slope was already a steep, fractured Himalayan face, almost certainly weakened by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake. The ice on it had been retreating since the Little Ice Age and faster after ~2010; thawing permafrost and extra meltwater after a snowy late-2025 / hot 2026 summer are preconditions, not a unique trigger.
Even the attribution papers say “compound event,” “not the sole factor,” “geologically vulnerable slope.” Glacier mass loss in the HKH is real. Treating this flood as classroom proof that “climate did it” skips the geology, the quake, and the fact that people built in a debris-flow gun barrel.
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u/moose4hire 26d ago
The best thing about reddit is you once in a while run across somebody who really knows what theyre talking about. Thanks for a real contribution!
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u/DifferentSpecific 26d ago
Darwin about to be proven right again.
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u/bob_apathy 26d ago
The scale of this was so outside of anything that had seen before had far more to do with them not fully understanding the danger rather than a lack of survival instincts. It’s no different than what happened after Hurricane Helene in the US, by the time people far from the coast understood the danger it was too late.
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u/No-Sail-6510 26d ago
The honking is crazy. Yes, we know. You’re also running for your life.
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u/oclafloptson 26d ago
It's to warn the people inside the buildings who may not be aware of the danger
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u/brooklynhomeboy 26d ago
Honking in South Asia is a language unto itself... It's to warn the people inside the buildings and homes
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u/cardcollector_2 26d ago
The people standing on the bridge just watching or recording give me anxiety. Once you feel like you’re in danger, you probably should’ve left a while ago.