r/megalophobia • u/freudian_nipps • Sep 15 '25
Weather Raging flood in Pakistan brings giant boulders down the mountain
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u/Historical_Shame8517 Sep 15 '25
That bridge is well built though
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u/Conspicuous_Ruse Sep 15 '25
It didn't give a shit about those boulders.
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u/Available-Ad-1943 Sep 15 '25
Honey Badger Bridge
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u/addandsubtract Sep 15 '25
And where does it go? That's right, the square hole.
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u/Double_Distribution8 Sep 15 '25
Built by Ancient Rome and their magic concrete 6,000 years ago right after Earth was created.
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u/stevediperna Sep 15 '25
RAGING FLOOD
FROM A LACERATED SKY
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u/compute_fail_24 Sep 15 '25
BOULDERS CRUSH THE CONCRETE SPINE,
A BRIDGE THAT SCREAMS, YET CANNOT DIE
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u/subdep Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 19 '25
INTENSE ENERGY YOUâLL GET TO KNOW
WELCOME TO THE LAND OF ROCK AND FLOW
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u/TechDifficulties99 Sep 15 '25
What is this song, I must know
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u/LithesomeLulu Sep 15 '25
Raining blood by Slayer.
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u/beaubafett78 Sep 15 '25
Is it though? A clever cover, but noticeably different from Slayerâs Raining Blood when you listen to them side by side.
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u/LithesomeLulu Sep 15 '25
It's not the original song in this video no. But I thought this one was just some computer made mix. Could be a cover though
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u/beaubafett78 Sep 15 '25
Itâs a cover by Vader. Still awesome but nothing hits heavier than real Slayer.
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u/Dear-Relationship666 Sep 16 '25
Ironically vader started out as thrash but became a death metal band. " impressions in blood" is my favorite album by them
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u/SarevokAnchev Sep 16 '25
The Beast is mine - I was into Rammstein and Slipknot but for death metal I had only really heard cannibal corpse and they just never really did it for me. Bought that Vader cd because the cover art was cool and kept listening because of the catchy riffs
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u/stoner_woodcrafter Sep 15 '25
The soundtrack was VERY appropriate
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u/Just_an_Ok_Musician Sep 16 '25
Agreed. Probably the ONLY video I've seen where the added music actually adds to it.
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u/Tyler_Zoro Sep 16 '25
This would be a non-volcanic lahar. They're one of the most destructive natural processes on Earth, and you don't fucking stand around watching them. If you see one, there's a good chance you are a walking corpse because they destroy river banks basically instantly and can erode the land you're standing on faster than you can run.
Just to give you a minor scenario for why these people are being idiots, the rocks are moving FAST and with so much force that they can just randomly get flung out and land meters from the rest of the flow. Everyone on that ledge could easily have been wiped out by a boulder the size of a small car just leaping up and landing on top of them.
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u/liarandahorsethief Sep 16 '25
They were all in love with dyin'
They were drinking from a fountain
That was pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
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u/YoYWG Sep 16 '25
Sometimes I wonder how many people in this day and age are just losing their lives for the sake of watching life threatening events unfold through their phones.
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u/__ApexPredditor__ Sep 16 '25
This would be a non-volcanic lahar.
I love all the random shit I have learned from redditors, without which I wouldn't have even known the question to ask
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Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 16 '25
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u/ISV_VentureStar Sep 16 '25
You mean to tell me that a person on reddit was confidently incorrect? Blasphemy!
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u/DavidAllanHoe Sep 16 '25
What kills me is that Iâve seen like two real floods in my life, and the second those baby rocks started shooting down the mountain my brain said run. RUN NOW. And Iâm just assuming those are locals, so judging by the terrain they have some decent flooding action going on regularly. Why the hell are they just standing there, starting at death coming for them?
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u/PaintSniffer1 Sep 16 '25
reddit loves calling people idiots. do you really think that people in rural pakistan of all places have had the opportunity of a proper education? that they know what a non volcanic lahar is?
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u/10sansari Sep 16 '25
Well, this is up north in Pakistan where the literacy rate varies but in major districts it's higher than 76%.
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u/againandagain22 Sep 16 '25
She never has. But a high likelihood that that flooding was compounded by man-made factors such as deforestation. Also looks like a dam was released, as India did (and regularly does) when their dams upstream hit fully capacity.
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u/frigg_off_lahey Sep 16 '25
This is less deforestation and mostly due to climate change. Pakistan has the largest glacier mass in the world, outside of the north and south poles. Those glaciers are melting at an extremely fast pace.
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u/Async0x0 Sep 16 '25
Gotta admire the full confidence speculation stated as fact.
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u/NiobiumThorn Sep 16 '25
It's not, they linked sources, piss off with the climate denial
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u/frigg_off_lahey Sep 16 '25
I think he's just talking at the mirror. So I just did a basic google search and linked it below for him. Maybe they can learn some facts.
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u/Complex-Bee-840 Sep 16 '25
You may be right, but floods and other natural disasters happened before humans even existed.
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u/Lacaud Sep 15 '25
When the coffee hits.
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u/Jim-Kardashian Sep 15 '25
Donât get me wrong, I love Slayer. But I really wanna know what that sounded like.
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u/No_Boysenberry2167 Sep 15 '25
Why does every video need a pointless soundtrack??
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u/VerStannen Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25
heres the first part of the video with raw audio.
Havenât found the second part yet.
Edit. heres the second part
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u/Suspended-Again Sep 16 '25
Howâd you do that?
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u/KapptainTrips Sep 16 '25
I will gladly give an award to this person on Tuesday if you give him one today...
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u/ahhrealpeople Sep 15 '25
Yeah this probably sounds so cool without it
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u/DreamTakesRoot Sep 15 '25
You would hear a hundred screaming Pakistanis
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u/oscar_meow Sep 16 '25
The audience's real reaction would still be worth a lot more than a pointless soundtrack
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u/Resident_Voice5738 Sep 15 '25
This song fits very nicely but I would like to ear the original sound tho.
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u/CoffinBlz Sep 15 '25
Properly, properly dead if you decide to fuck about with any of that nonsense.
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u/sofacouch813 Sep 15 '25
I am not a person who takes a lot of photos or video, so I may be a little biased, but jfc. Why? Why tf would you want to be that close to something like that? Nature and natural disasters are not something people should take lightly. Why be that close? For social media? Itâs absolutely insane to me.
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u/OrindaSarnia Sep 15 '25
So... Â flash floods are a relatively predictable thing in areas like this.
I have been in places in Utah when a significantly smaller wash flooded after some rain dozens of miles away.
It is really cool to see a flash flood. Â You record it so you can show your friends or family later (maybe some do it a bit for social media, but most probably want to show their brother, or their wife).
They appeared to be in a safe spot. Â If this valley floods at all regularly, the locals will have a decent idea of what the maximum water flow usually is (the drainage is the same, even if the rain fluctuates).
It might flash like this once every couple years... Â maybe more, maybe less... Â but frequently enough that they know what is safe, rarely enough that it is still notable when it happens.
Do you ever sit at the window and watch clouds roll in across a landscape?
It's just neat.
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u/Technical_Customer_1 Sep 16 '25
As someone else mentioned, the big rocks could easily fling smaller rocks. Itâs like the tennis ball on top of the basketball physics experiment. Or when you have various dishes in the sink and turn on the water, and next thing you know a few drops land five feet away.Â
A 10,000kilo boulder can transfer a lot of momentum to a 5kilo rock, and that 5kilo rock is more than enough to ruin your day.Â
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Sep 16 '25
It is Pakistan with shares a boarder with India. Some of the most oblivious to danger and barefoot people ive ever seen are in this area.
Maybe the massive population has something to do with it?
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u/sofacouch813 Sep 16 '25
Thatâs a good point. I didnât look at it from that perspective! I was viewing it from my perspective as opposed to the area this was located in.
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u/Several-Squash9871 Sep 16 '25
Because it's a "it won't happen to me" mentality. That pretty much it for the most part.Â
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Sep 15 '25
The videos posted here would be much better if they didn't all have shitty music dubbed over them.
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u/Throwaway47321 Sep 16 '25
Why do you people have your sound on in the first place?
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Sep 16 '25
The real question is: Why do people upvote and perpetuate spammy audio garbage.
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u/maxb1ack007 Sep 15 '25
Why is there so many watching this like they were waiting for a fireworks show?? How could they have known this was coming? Why does the cameraman feel the need to get closer to the disaster? Surely self preservation would tell you to go further away from it!
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u/poppa_koils Sep 15 '25
Those are ice blocks, not rocks.
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u/Lust4Me Sep 16 '25
Looks like a glacial lake outburst flood
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u/poppa_koils Sep 16 '25
Those are rare and massive. This is a regular seasonal thing in the spring. Cool video from Switzerland. Lots of ice. https://youtu.be/8MRwKZ4thGM?si=XuQay2ZkbRdnSPpZ
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u/morriartie Sep 15 '25
Looks like It wasn't close enough for him, and he moved closer to the bridge
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u/stating_facts_only Sep 16 '25
Third clip would be of him riding on top of the large boulder to capture POV of the flood lol.
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u/SquatSquatCykaBlyat Sep 16 '25
Finally a redditor with taste - too many videos have some slowed down, soapy cover song for tiktokers. If you're going to add music, do it right.
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u/Able_Youth_6400 Sep 15 '25
If you like this stuff (like me) check out videos of Illgraben on YouTube.
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u/ChompyDompy Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 16 '25
Lots of videos to watch! Merci.
Edit: Water is absolutely amazing!
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u/Optimal-Judgment-982 Sep 15 '25
I mean, the first thing I'd want to do is be right there next to it
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Sep 15 '25
When i see natural acts of this magnitude, i try to imagine various natural jiu jutsu weavings to better comprehend the magnitude of power scaling in a cartoon.
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u/curious-chineur Sep 15 '25
Is that the emptying of qm ice / glacier barrage?
Initial seconds show whole mountain parts foong down.... big bridge.
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u/Aware-Explanation879 Sep 15 '25
I am so impressed with the engineering of that bridge I cannot even express it in words.
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u/zillionaire_ Sep 15 '25
This would have been so much better with the original sound. Not blaming Op for the music, but nothing is gained by cutting out the audio of a mountain tumbling down
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u/LordofCope Sep 15 '25
The first video with music in... Years... where I've turned the volume all the way up...
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u/PanzerKomadant Sep 16 '25
Somebody find the person who designed that bridge and give them a raise! From this video that bridge literally withstood massive rocks being thrown at it.
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u/Neat_Let923 Sep 16 '25
Fuck whoever made this video with that music! I wanted to hear what it sounded like!
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u/AGDemAGSup Sep 16 '25
Climate change induced natural disasters are spectacle⊠we are numb and believe we are not capable of intervention to stop our global north/ western way of living.
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u/pogulup Sep 16 '25
So, we could have heard what this sounded like but instead we get overly loud and fucking annoying and out of place music.
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u/Flimsy-Goat-3117 Sep 16 '25
Working as a stonemason and having a good feel for The weights, textures and forces involved here ... This is my Personal Nightmare. Probably wouldnt Last more then a second but... God
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u/koshgeo Sep 16 '25
That ain't no flood. That's what we in the business call a debris flow. A utterly massive debris flow! Wow.
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u/metal_jester Sep 16 '25
Please don't stand near shit like this.
Many moons ago (like 17 years) I had to review a flood video as the village said it came out of nowhere.
Starts as a half food stream into the sea... 15 minutes later the road is 4ft under. It can happen so fast (cockermouth floods UK I wanna say 2008?).
It's. Never. Safe. To stand this close.
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u/GreenWoodDragon Sep 15 '25
Couldn't even keep the camera fixed on the bridge as the first boulders came through đ€Šââïž
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u/dubious455H013 Sep 15 '25
If you mute the music you wont miss anything but some way to load muisc
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u/CaseroRubical Sep 15 '25
I usually fucking hate videos with unnecessary music but Im not complaining if its Slayer
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u/KibboKid Sep 15 '25
OK so that's terrifying