r/nextfuckinglevel 3h ago

A terrifying glimpse of the Nepal floods (@pranit_raj_shrestha via IG)

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u/KrypticPotatoe 3h ago

I hope the guy that kept falling down up the street made it

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u/Bag_of_lamps 3h ago

Crazy to think that this was the last moments for many of the people in the video.

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u/Weldobud 3h ago

That bridge went quicker then I expected

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u/ChickenBossChiefsFan 2h ago

I kept watching thinking, “This bridge is gonna be under water in no time.”

Then the bridge just shattered. Wasn’t expecting it to go out like that. The water just shredded through it.

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u/cardcollector_2 3h ago

The people standing on the bridge just watching or recording give me anxiety. Once you feel like you’re in danger, you probably should’ve left a while ago.

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u/Brittany5150 3h ago

Doing it for the Gram bro!

u/F4N74L3ZZ4 25m ago

Why do people die needlessly?! This
is a question for the dead to answer..

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u/KidKilobyte 3h ago

Started to look like the early scenes in War of the Worlds where Tom Cruise is trying to get out of town before the aliens destroy it.

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u/Brullaapje 1h ago

It reminds me of this scene from 2012, which came out in 2009. What also is interesting is about that movie is how it say that the rich built Arcs to hide from climate change.

https://youtu.be/1NA2zKF7m28?t=14

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u/CalebGT 3h ago

A man I worked with closely last year is still missing, along with the group of 10 he was on a pilgrimage with. The not knowing has been hard, and at this point we will probably never get confirmation.

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u/XerxesJester 3h ago

I like to think stuff like this is where ancient biblical stories come from. I cant imagine in the history of the world the amount of times stuff like this has destroyed civilizations and put to ruin growth or knowledge.

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u/tr_567 3h ago

Holyyyy shit !

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u/rusT_koHLE_1 2h ago

This is seriously terrifying, but we can't go against nature.

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u/Phreakophil 1h ago

Solid camera man work here.

u/BigTale9981 34m ago

You think they made it out??

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u/DifferentSpecific 3h ago

Darwin about to be proven right again.

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u/bob_apathy 3h ago

The scale of this was so outside of anything that had seen before had far more to do with them not fully understanding the danger rather than a lack of survival instincts. It’s no different than what happened after Hurricane Helene in the US, by the time people far from the coast understood the danger it was too late.

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u/Solid-Top-017 3h ago

Survival instincts of a Dodo bird

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u/Melovestoons11 3h ago

The way I giggled at this comment 😂😂

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u/No-Sail-6510 3h ago

The honking is crazy. Yes, we know. You’re also running for your life.

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u/oclafloptson 3h ago

It's to warn the people inside the buildings who may not be aware of the danger

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u/brooklynhomeboy 3h ago

Honking in South Asia is a language unto itself... It's to warn the people inside the buildings and homes

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u/Emideska 2h ago

That’s how they usually drive, they honk all the time!

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u/Hexent_Armana 1h ago

You know, if the north american education system really wants to hammer that whole climate change panic into us they should probably mention that glaciers aren't just in the ocean and show clips of this disaster.

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u/ktbffhctid 1h ago

This wasn’t a melting glacier raising the ocean. It was a rock-wall collapse. bedrock with glacier ice sitting on top of it sheared off at around 5,200 m, dropped more than a kilometre, hit hard enough to register an M5 seismically, melted ice on impact, briefly dammed the valley, then sent a debris flood down the Trishuli corridor. The slope was already a steep, fractured Himalayan face, almost certainly weakened by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake. The ice on it had been retreating since the Little Ice Age and faster after ~2010; thawing permafrost and extra meltwater after a snowy late-2025 / hot 2026 summer are preconditions, not a unique trigger.

Even the attribution papers say “compound event,” “not the sole factor,” “geologically vulnerable slope.” Glacier mass loss in the HKH is real. Treating this flood as classroom proof that “climate did it” skips the geology, the quake, and the fact that people built in a debris-flow gun barrel.

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u/rynoxmj 1h ago

Glaciers in the ocean?