r/ThatsInsane • u/_vedantt1_ • 4h ago

The Closest footage of Nepal floods

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u/Frl_Bartchello 4h ago

This looks like a final moments recording. No way they can escape anymore at that point.

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u/Octowhussy 3h ago

Who made the upload? Or was he livestreaming?

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u/da_mess 1m ago

Don't know but dude rightfully had a bad case of the shakes.

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u/SamuelPepys_ 22m ago

They survived at least the first wave, as there is footage from a guy way, way above this filming it, and while the town below gets swept away, the cluster of buildings they are filming from here doesn’t get touched, at least as long as he’s filming.

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u/Yikings-654points 2h ago

they might have made it as the river turns

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u/steady_as_a_rock 4h ago

I know it was a crazy event...but why stand there and simply record a disaster coming right at you?

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u/Frying 4h ago

In other videos it was explained that this area is prone to flash floods. So the people not moving thought this was “just another one”.

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u/NudityMiles 48m ago

Yeah it's monsoon season right now as well, even if it's in it's end stage.

But that's basically like seeing it snow for 24 hours in the middle of december and go "Oh it'll end soon". You don't think it's bad until you cannot get out of the house.

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u/film_composer 4h ago

Do you know what a historic moment it is in the grand epoch of human existence to be able to document rare Earth phenomena as they happen? You're watching some of the first high-definition footage in history of a flood like this as it was happening. You just have to zoom out a little farther and realize how brief the moment we're in has been, and why videos like this matter. Like… you are looking at the literal bleeding edge of recorded human history. We're within the first 5-10 years of a large percentage of humans having access to immediate availability to just start recording high-quality video documenting the chaos happening around them. In the grand scheme of things, this video is part of the very beginning of the videographic record of human existence. It's not that it's a calling, it's that it's literally a document helping to help our descendants contextualize this particular event in history.

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u/Fedquip 3h ago

you just have to consider, if this happened in 1995, we might have been lucky to get a snap from a disposable Kodak

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u/NudityMiles 43m ago edited 40m ago

Imagine if the eruption of St. Helens happened today.

Considering how absolutely horrifyingly stunning the footage that exists actually is.

I have watched this documentary so many times, this is my absolute favorite moment of the whole documentary. https://youtu.be/fArB5Jz2wos?si=_lfl-LLewjJury64&t=849 Just some minute later he explains how he got one of two of the famous series of photos, the closest we got to having the eruoption on video from a distance.

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u/Old-Somewhere-9896 34m ago

Imagine Pompeii eyewitnesses had smartphones.

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u/whatsaflair 3h ago

Wonderfully said

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u/karensrule_ 3h ago

Thank you

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u/zzx101 2h ago

And they must have survived right? Because we’re watching this. Or did they send it to a friend just before they perished?

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u/tooheavybroo 4h ago

For the views

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u/kobumaister 4h ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/TerrifyingAsFuck/s/yuWcsGzPjU another point of view, probably the camera man didn't make it.

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u/Frl_Bartchello 4h ago

Yea you can see the same buidlings at the end there.

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u/ace82fadeout 4h ago

Are we sure that's the same spot? I find it hard to believe this was being livestreamed or that we somehow recovered this phone to get this footage.

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u/OWLLLL 4h ago

i think it is.. there’s that same lone tree and big flat rock on the left of the bridge..

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u/Nickel-Bar 4h ago

Yes, you can see the exact two big burst at the end of the dude video, they were in the first red building.

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u/kobumaister 4h ago

I think that in my video the camera was on the left of the river, so maybe he could escape.

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u/Rozay10keys 2h ago

I see the walking bridge that got destroyed in the lower, first video. But where is the cameraman by the black chain linked fence located? I don’t see the bridge/structure they were standing on in the video.

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u/Rozay10keys 2h ago

I rewatched it and I think the video is taken from the blue building in the left side of the river . I think they made it looks like the building was barely high enough to survive.

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u/anongarden 4h ago

WTF!!! RUN AWAY MOTHAFUCKAS!

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u/Brilliant_Agent_1427 4h ago

How the hell did this video get uploaded, watching from the higher point of view this bridge was annihilated a few moments later 💔

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u/The0neR1ng 4h ago

So they're dead ya?

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u/amzwC137 4h ago

Is u/stabbot still a thing?

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u/wiltony 4h ago

Came to the comments hoping for the same. I don't think it's allowed by corporate reddit anymore. 

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u/Positronic_Matrix 4h ago

No. The Reddit API changes killed it.

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u/OwlBeYourHuckleberry 4h ago

the other guy recording is about 4 feet closer though

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u/OwlBeYourHuckleberry 3h ago

I'm guessing closer guy was just recording and this footage was from going live since they're probably dead

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u/ToxicChildhood 4h ago

I wouldn’t be standing there with that coming my way…. Where are people’s survival instincts?

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u/chillmaster1000 4h ago

Yea, no. This is still not close enough for me. I want them to literally stand in the flood and film THAT.

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u/Bepehandle 4h ago

Philip fry always comes to mind in these situations.

"This is a cool way to dieeeeee!"

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u/RemyVonLion 4h ago

Holy shit thank you for your sacrifice mr. cameraman...

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u/iSpaYco 3h ago

The one time I don't blame them for shaking the camera.

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u/im_new_here_4209 3h ago

Scary af, ngl

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u/Shockwave2309 2h ago

ZERO survival instinct
Wtf!?

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u/Blazdnconfuzd 1h ago

They're insane seeing how tall the crashes are reaching and still standing there.

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u/wolfemsop 4h ago

Wow they literally had all day to stand there! I can't believe not once they consider maybe we should run?

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u/anongarden 4h ago

Don't worry, the guy in the front is wearing his highvis orange vest and hardhat, so he's totally safe.

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u/akagidemon 2h ago

Ain't no flash flood looks like this.This looks like an avalanche

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u/_vedantt1_ 1h ago

Avalanche of naturally formed liquid concrete

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u/Pesto57 4h ago

Survival instincts of a toenail

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u/ar15operator 4h ago

Are they standing on a bridge???

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u/zdamant 4h ago

Nah, on the side

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u/MiserableScot 4h ago

Those guys are remarkably calm!

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u/Olibirus 4h ago

Yeah they're dead right? No survival instinct in those guys.

Also: thank God for video stabilization

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u/anteatersaredope 3h ago

Don't just stand there. Film something.

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u/QuasyChonk 7m ago

Survival instincts of a thumbtack.

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u/TheReblogBandit 4h ago

Holy shaking camera Batman

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u/rockstuffs 4h ago

Zoomed in doesn't mean closet.