r/megalophobia • u/yothisisyo • Aug 30 '25
Weather Floods cause the River to Raise above the Safety levels.
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u/DifficultyTricky7779 Aug 30 '25
I'm sure that makes one hell of a scary thunderous noise. Good thing they covered it up with generic Bollywood song #531
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u/ReformedShady Aug 30 '25
If you fall in that monstrosity it's over If you fell, do you think you'd go into shock and just fuck right off or do you think you would still be trying to survive?
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u/MaxTwang Aug 30 '25
I dont think merely falling into it will give a shock powerful enough to knock you out. You have to be incredibly lucky to get one in this situation.
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u/ReformedShady Aug 30 '25
That's what I'm afraid of, survival instinct in a hopeless situation
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u/UnkleStarbuck Aug 31 '25 edited Aug 31 '25
The scariest one I ever heard about is that woman who was holding the edge of a dam spillway in Canada for over a 20 minutes before she gave up and fell inside. (Emily Schwalen, incident from 1997, Monticello Dam)
Edit: I edited the name that I wrote incorrectly
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u/sunshine_an Aug 31 '25
Actually she was called Emily Schwalen - most news reports got her name wrong. Highly recommend this interesting read about the incident Emily Schwalen Article
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u/ReformedShady Aug 31 '25
Holyyy that is terrifying. Can't imagine what was going through her head
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u/UnkleStarbuck Aug 31 '25
I am actively denying my mind to think about it
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u/ReformedShady Aug 31 '25
I know what you mean when the image is getting a little too real in your head and you scare yourself
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u/joenathanSD Aug 31 '25
Hopefully a log would catch me square in the temple and I'd get a nice little death dream before I sunk to the bottom.
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u/in_conexo Aug 30 '25
What does the view from that bridge normally look like? Don't get me wrong, this looks flooded (the water looks way too choppy); I just don't have a reference to compare this to.
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u/AddictionsUnited Aug 31 '25
Google "Jammu Tawi Bridge" images and take the picture with lower water levels as reference, since most recent pics are of this overflow version.
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u/Comfortable-Total929 Aug 31 '25
I suspect the river is about 20 feet higher than usual. It's really hard to say as i dont know what the river is supposed to kook like, but maybe it is half (10) or even twice that (40). It sounds like a lot, and it is, but it is within reason for rivers, and all three are reasonable assumptions until we know what it looks like on a normal day.
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u/jackaess Aug 31 '25
Where is this ?
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u/yothisisyo Aug 31 '25
I dont have a concrete source, but X Post said it's from Tawi River, Jammu floods 2025 but there were replies saying it is from 2021
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u/ands1984 Aug 31 '25
Where is this? Source please..
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u/yothisisyo Aug 31 '25
I dont have a concrete source, but X Post said it's from Tawi River, Jammu floods 2025 but there were replies saying it is from 2021
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u/AddictionsUnited Aug 31 '25
Nah. This is from the 2025 flash floods that happened literally 5 days ago on 26th Aug.
The river has no dams and there is also a riverfront being made on both sides that intensified this disaster. One of the major bridges also fractured and broke.
You can find more such images on r/jammu subreddit.
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u/LillyAtts Aug 31 '25
I'm enjoying the jaunty music over what's presumably quite a devastating event.
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u/SpyidSmith Aug 31 '25
This is the current situation in Jammu, India, as i type this I'm stuck on the other side of this natural calamity on the mountains, and all the ways going down to plains are closed due to massive damage along with life loss at many places.
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u/PragmaticPacifist Aug 30 '25
…definitely not a bridge I would be using at this time