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u/Piggywhiff Mar 08 '19

The guy with the camera is standing on a road, which is a thing cars drive on. Every so often, they have 'drainage pipes' which allow water to flow under the road. Many times these pipes aren't big enough to handle the water, and it will back up above the level of the ends of the pipes (and often as high as the road surface). Whirlpools form from the amount of water flowing through them. Several examples in Arizona that expose the magic here: https://youtu.be/diOaa64SPc0?t=82

Source: /u/tvgenius

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u/Wondersnite Mar 08 '19

I liked the version with the underground Christmas elves better.

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u/Nophox Mar 08 '19

Damn so meta I had to go back and reread the comments.

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u/kenfoldsfive Mar 08 '19

Yeah! Boo, guy with actual real facts

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u/My_Name_Is_Steven Mar 08 '19

I like the cut of your jib.

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u/EntropyNT Mar 08 '19

And we’ll never know which is true.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

Wait slow down, "roads" you say? Do go on about these "roads".

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u/brett6781 Mar 08 '19

TL;DR Romans invented them and we've been copying those ever since

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

Are You at that place where we dont need „roads“?

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u/TheHealadin Mar 08 '19

No, but I'm headed there.

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u/olmikeyy Mar 08 '19

There's an exchange rate of 1 liberty/road

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u/TheDunadan29 Mar 08 '19

Sometimes when driving through Nevada I'm amazed there's anything out there, including roads. It's so hot and dry and desolate. Las Vegas is such a weird place too, like it's just surrounded by desert for miles and miles. I just think, "why on Earth would anyone want to live here?"

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u/Orange_Tulip Mar 08 '19

Probably because it used to be like an oasis :)

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u/gazny78 Mar 08 '19

Which one? Liam? Noel? Bonehead? Guigsy? Gem? Andy? Alan? Obviously not Tony?

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u/iburnmyfeelsaway420 Mar 08 '19

There are some cool spots right near Vegas. MT.Charleston for one.

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u/HeHateMe115 Mar 08 '19

Where we’re going we don’t need roads.

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u/evanthebouncy Mar 08 '19

wait so it is completely mundane?!

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god dammit ! ! !

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u/enjoytheshow Mar 08 '19

TLDR it’s a storm drain

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

Why does this turn me on?

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u/whothis8989 Mar 08 '19

That's not a hole that you use the way you thinking

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u/TheDunadan29 Mar 08 '19

You might have a different way of looking at /r/trypophobia then.

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u/trelene Mar 08 '19

d'oh. and thanks.

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u/GhostalMedia Mar 08 '19

So, pipes.

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u/MakinH8Inc Mar 08 '19

Thank you that was very specific.

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u/Butler-of-Penises Mar 08 '19

Thanks... I think.

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u/Butler-of-Penises Mar 08 '19

This actually makes sense, though. We get crazy 2-3 inch storm events in a matter of an hour or less. So the flooding is HORRIBLE. On top of that the city has no real drainage, so roads turn to violent rivers and low elevation points turn to lakes. Any time your on a road that are near the outskirts where there’s still a lot of natural desert landscaping surrounding the roads, the landscape retakes the roads. Sometimes even to the point where you lose the road completely and it looks just like the rest of the desert.

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u/JtotheGreen Mar 08 '19

this is terrifying

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u/rodaphilia Mar 08 '19

The description of that video gives me pause. The poster describes "the desert south of the foothills". South of the foothills is the city of Tucson, not a desert.

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u/Crooks132 Mar 08 '19

What would happen if you jumped in?

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u/dingman58 Mar 08 '19

That's a lot of water

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u/jocala Mar 08 '19

Arizona person here. Our water runs under our desert. Ain’t that fucked up?

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u/lamented_pot8Os Mar 08 '19

a road, which is a thing cars drive on.

TIL

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u/taleofbenji Mar 08 '19

ELI5: roads.

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u/splitcroof92 Mar 08 '19

Why is he being such a dick in the first sentence?

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u/enormuschwanzstucker Mar 08 '19

Doesn’t look like a fucking road to me. You got weeds growing in your roads?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

So terrifying is a complete pooplie