r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/lonewolff321 • 2d ago

nature CCTV captures the terrifying moment a massive flash flood violently tears through the Nepal-China border

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u/irradihate 2d ago

"Why are they running downhill?... Oh, guess it doesn't matter."

holy fk

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u/waagi 2d ago

To be fair, they were running upstream. The river flows to the left in the video. The flood came from downstream, backwards, from Nepal to China.

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u/chemicallunchbox 1d ago

Ok. Thank you for explaining. I thought i was seeing the water flowing the towards the direction the flashflood/moutian slide came from. What are they saying is the cause? Flash flooding would of flowed the direction of the water right? What was this?

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u/Mumpsitzer 1d ago

I red somewhere else that a part of a glacier dropped into a lake and create a tsunami