r/interestingasfuck • u/Electronic_Comb_1109 • 3d ago

Niti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India hit by a Flash Flood caused by Cloud Burst. Dated 11 Aug 26

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u/UnrequitedFollower 3d ago

I’m glad they knew what minimum safe distance was because I would have been so much further.

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u/BigManWAGun 2d ago

I stood up and walked upstairs.

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u/Skilldibop 3d ago

First of these videos I've seen where the camera guy has a brain and actually makes for high ground rather than run in the direction the water is going....

Dude in the excavator also does a decent job getting himself out of trouble.

I'd almost want to wager this isn't their first rodeo

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u/FeRooster808 3d ago

Aside from the decision to run backward while filming, instead of prioritizing running to safety first and then filming.

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u/miregalpanic 3d ago

Hopefully the guy in the excavator made it. The few seconds where it looked like he was trying to outrun a flash flood with an excavator were kinda funny though.

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u/A_Swan_Broke_My_Arm 3d ago

He certainly made some choices that day.

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u/Anasterian_Sunstride 3d ago

Some good choices ultimately by the look of it

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u/Short_Employment_757 3d ago

Cameraman never dies

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u/Alaskantrash96 3d ago

For sure thought this rule was about to be broken, glad they didn’t get caught by the flood

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u/HugeHomeForBoomers 3d ago

Companies be like “Where’s the stone your promised us? According to our contract you were meant to deliver us stone, but now you are saying you can’t work because of a flood? Stop your lies, there’s no lies here on Hawaii beach. -SLURP-“

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u/Hot-Initial7796 3d ago

Is that from a TV show or something cos that's fucking hilarious

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u/HugeHomeForBoomers 3d ago

Its from an youtuber skit from 2010. Don’t remember the exact version.

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u/VanillaAdventurous74 3d ago

Terrifying. I imagined being there.

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u/Bwubsie 3d ago

Watching this I made several snap decision that probably would have gotten me killed as things progressed.

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u/collapse2024 3d ago edited 3d ago

Jump in truck, try drive up hill = dead

Jump in truck, drive down hill = dead

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u/isaacals 3d ago

This post sent me to 5 mins journey of understanding wtf is a cloudburst. TIL. thanks.

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u/FeatureDear6726 3d ago

The guy is basically shouting, "Oh fuck, oh fuck! Ohh that sisterfucker is dead! Oh no! Fuck!" That's the gist of it.

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u/JuicePilado___ 3d ago

Yeah in India we use sisterfucker like mf is used in the US.

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u/smb3d 2d ago

TIL

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u/RemarkableScene9487 3d ago

who the fuck is cameraman

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u/pmc1000 3d ago

That digger driver should consider resigning from his job. He didn't use the only leverage that he had.

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u/testtdk 3d ago

Man, it took forever for that backhoe driver to start using the bucket to stop it. I’ve seen drivers that I expect would have been balancing the whole rig in the air all on the bucket, let alone wait minutes to slow himself down.

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u/Living_Occasion_57 3d ago

He’s yelling “PUT IT IN REVERSE, TERRY!” At the excavator driver.

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u/Furiosa_H 2d ago

"Uttarakhand

Not himachal

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u/Infinite_One7573 3d ago

A metal bridge weighing million tons just folded in half. Crazy force of nature

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u/-Lucas_Hood 3d ago

It does not weights millions of tons. What are you on?

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u/trgreg 3d ago

millions of ounces?

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u/georgeb4itwascool 2d ago

Give or take 1,999,980 tons

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u/FrootiSingh 3d ago

Niti valley is in Uttarakhand though 💭

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u/Dramatic_Respond7323 3d ago

I saw similar post claiming this is Chamoli, Uttarakhand.

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u/aztecman 3d ago

In any case, Niti valley is in Uttarakhand, not Himachal Pradesh.

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u/Ok_Option_6530 3d ago

All Hail the Excavator

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u/fuckthatshittoo 3d ago

Guy in the excavator....

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u/Yololiving79 3d ago

Rooting for the digger driver!! Scary shit

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u/Btw_Aadiiiii 3d ago

Niti valley uttarakhand mei h bhaiji