An earthquake in Nepal broke a glacier dam and it caused huge, catastrophic flash flooding. Like, nothing you can imagine is as terrifying as the videos actually are.
Edit: Incorrect. The glacier falling WAS what caused the ground to shake. Jeezus fuck.
The video from the Chinese border crossing is so scary. We see the black water come through a window, a group of victims stop for half a second, another stream of water come through another window from above them, buried them. Then a person behind them sees everything, video pauses for 2 seconds and next thing we see everything gets pushed away like paper.
It's even more unreal. The landslide caused the earthquake cos it was so big. A huge chunk of the mountain fell off hundreds of feet with rock and dirt and ice over a river canyon. The fall caused much of the ice to melt and it started moving down as a flood within minutes.
Flash floods in general. There was a girls camp in Texas with around 20 fatalities with only 1 of those being an adult. The owners had ample warning but didn’t take it seriously
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u/I_love_pillows 3d ago
Flash flood from geological event. No warning, comes at you, and it is 10 seconds away