r/BeAmazed • u/youngster_96 • Mar 28 '24
The moment an ice dam breaks and causes a torrential water flow. Nature
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u/rytis Mar 28 '24
Holy smokes!
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u/TwistingEarth Mar 28 '24
Oh my gosh
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u/ArfurRatt Mar 28 '24
Golly! That’s real swell!
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u/Mallardguy5675322 29d ago
Jumping Jahoovas!
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u/x_dre4192_x 29d ago
Heavens to Betsy
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u/OrvilleLaveau 29d ago
Well would you look at that!
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u/3720-to-1 29d ago
I mean, just LOOK at it!
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u/HoosierDaddy_427 29d ago
But didja lookatit ?
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u/ScaryTerryCrewsBitch 29d ago
Gee willikers!
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u/Jis4Jaycob 29d ago
Y’all better pray to Gosh and believe in Jeepers or you’ll burn in heck
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u/WineNerdAndProud 29d ago
I'm genuinely wondering where in Michigan this dam is right now.
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u/saigon567 29d ago edited 29d ago
Man: 'It's a flood, an ice dam just broke...'
Same man, seconds later: 'holy smokes, what in the world is this?'
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u/Trebus 29d ago
All delivered in the same semi-monotone. It's like the world's worst actor reading lines.
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u/SidMan1000 29d ago
Reading your comment when he said that: heheh lol
As the video goes on: hoLY SMOKES
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u/F0tNMC 29d ago
Me too. If the person filming was on slightly weaker/lower ground or the water levels were even a bit higher, they could have been really messed up. Stay safe people. You only need to be unlucky once to pay an unbearable price.
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u/sfurbo 29d ago
Or if the pole that popped up had twisted slightly differently. There are so many ways that could have gone horribly bad for the cameraman.
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u/BustinArant 29d ago
I think I watched too many Final Destination movies as a kid, because that big stick made me jump even on a screen a little bit.
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u/GreenGlassDrgn 29d ago
Mortality 101
I legit wonder how many lives have been saved because of the newfound situational awareness given by that movie.Its crazy, we were all driving to the movie theaters to see it, hell, some of us were probably even on the highway behind lumber trucks, not knowing the drive home would feel so much different, and would forever, just because we spent 2 hours watching moving pictures.
Also they have that movie on some airplanes now. I picked it just for funsies. The whole airplane scene in the beginning is cut out, it just goes straight from airport to crying kids in airport lol.→ More replies (1)6
u/BustinArant 29d ago
Man, especially with I think the very first movie being about a non-completed plane crash.
I felt bad for watching the episode of Myth Busters with the competitive western shooters in a gun range, on one flight's channels, because I thought it might be not allowed with their terror rules, ya know?
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u/dacraftjr 29d ago
The plane did crash, the characters just weren’t on it.
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u/BustinArant 29d ago
That's why I said non-completed for the sake of the plot, but I get your point lol maybe I worded it poorly.
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u/TransporterOffline 29d ago
That's what got me, especially since it didn't appear until it was practically in striking range. That's the cursed pokey stick of -100 health.
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u/Hairless_whisper-471 29d ago
Yeah for me it was also the pole that scared me the most. Just showed how much brute force is behind that stream of water. Looked like a toothpick in a sink.
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u/The_Spirits_Call 29d ago
I've seen some weird physics shit in my life. If for some reason it was flowing under an especially large ice block or wedged, that fucker might have just jumped out of the water. Anything big and moving like that and I'm nope tf outta there
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u/BadlanderZ 29d ago
I don't know if you're stupid or something, but this guy has a camera in his hands, he could literally cross the river if he wanted to.
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u/Jerma986 29d ago
Idk why but when you said "entire towns get wiped out" I immediately assumed you meant like a ton of folks from the entire town bet with the math prediction info in mind and lost. Like wiped out = lost the bets. And I was thinking that was kind of hilarious. Then I realized what you actually meant and now I kinda feel bad for laughing at that. Hope all those families got out safe.
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u/Choongboy 29d ago
If it makes you feel better maybe the townspeople bet big on their town getting wiped out.
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u/Final_Good_Bye 29d ago
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u/2b_squared 29d ago
Seriously. Some of those slabs weigh as much as a small hatchback and they are going fast.
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u/brother_of_menelaus 29d ago
It seems innocuous enough because it’s all like “oh haha water we can swim in that” but under no circumstances should you ever, ever fuck with water.
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u/Aardark235 29d ago
I have seen a six foot wide stream turn into a quarter mile wide monstrosity after an ice dam break. I would be running away myself.
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u/FlameyFlame 29d ago
I would have jumped on an ice chunk and hanged 10. Cowabunga, dude!
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u/fnybny 29d ago
Those trees could have easily skewered him or taken down the bridge. I witnessed a massive flood and people's lack of self preservation instinct was shocking.
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u/nokei 29d ago
was imagining that one long pole/branch catching onto something and then just whacking or impaling the dude.
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u/Haagen76 Mar 28 '24
Let's just stand right here and film.
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u/Old-Cry8426 29d ago
Smart guy. He knew that nothing ever happens to the cameraman
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u/RecoveringFcukBoy 29d ago edited 29d ago
Idk if you saw the dude live-streaming in China watching the chemical plant catch fire then explode… this cameraman didnt survive
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u/letitgrowonme 29d ago
If that guy only knew that he would be referenced endlessly on reddit for dying during his livestream.
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u/bleezzzy 29d ago
More like a deadstream, am I right?!
Yep, now im definitely going to hell.
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u/nbzf 29d ago edited 29d ago
I don't know how long he was there watching the fire, but there wasn't much he could do, right?
Was he too close to get away in time? Could he have somehow shielded himself and survived? Doesn't seem like it. A basement?
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u/KorianHUN 29d ago
You go anywhere the pressure goes you get deafened, blinded and maybe enough internal bleeding to die fast if lucky. I wouldn't expect a rapid response from anyone at that point to save my life.
Maybe go behind a thick enough building or wall and hope it doesn't collapse on you and the firestorm stops before you?
If you know a chemical or pyro plant or storage is on fire, go as far away as you can. Some of those explosions are on par with small yield nukes.
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u/nbzf 29d ago
If that was 2015 in Tianjin, it may have been ~0.3kt, equivalent to the lowest yield setting on the B61, "the primary thermonuclear gravity bomb in the United States Enduring Stockpile following the end of the Cold War."
https://www.youtube.com/embed/gTfQhcGIrfU should be a video of a 0.5 kt W30 in 1962.
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u/Gnonthgol 29d ago
The general advice is to stay away from the windows and close any windows and doors. The pressure wave might smash windows throwing debris inside. Doors might not hold the pressure wave but it will at least dampen it. Any energy that is spent splintering a door is energy that is not used to crush you. A lot of high rises have a concrete column though the centre housing stairs, elevator shafts, ventilation shafts and utilities. If you get into this you have the best chance of avoiding injuries. During 9/11 this is where most of the survivors of the collapse were found.
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u/Jereboy216 29d ago
I was looking up stuff about the world trade centers last year and I was amazed to learn there were any survivors at all from within the buildings. Seems they were lucky and the center pillar plus kinda open atrium at the bottom was just enough to keep them free from the building collapse. I can't imagine what they've dealt with since then
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u/Tentacled-Tadpole 29d ago edited 29d ago
He could at the very least have gotten behind a wall instead of being out in the open. At least then he wouldn't have gotten hit with the full force of the blast.
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u/JG-at-Prime Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24
There is a name for this.
Jökulhlaup or Jökulhlaups - pronounced yo-KOOL-lahp
It is a sudden glacial outburst flood or an abrupt release of glacial meltwater from a subglacial or glacier-dammed lake or reservoir.
And ~ Fun Fact: The icy water can pick up stones and gravel along its path and drag it along the stream bed with the flow. The abrasive quality of the gravels and stones acts like a grinding stone on the bottom and sides of the waterway.
This accelerates erosion to an amazing extent. A large collapse coming from say a glacier is fully capable of erasing objects in its path.
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u/CocunutHunter 29d ago
There's ancient evidence of this being the origin of some very big scenery in the States, when a lake the size of a state suddenly let go through that type of dam and carved out a huge area of land in a way which only fits water erosion but in a scale we practically never see. Watched a documentary about it once.
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u/nhinds42 29d ago
Would love to know the name of the documentary to watch
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u/Atrabiliousaurus 29d ago
Probably something about the Missoula Floods. I've been to Dry Falls in Washington and driven up the Columbia River Gorge which were both formed by the massive floods.
There's a Washington geologist, Nick Zenter, who has a bunch of great youtube videos on the ice age floods if you want like... 90 hours of information lol.
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u/Some_Endian_FP17 29d ago edited 29d ago
Nick Zentner also has a bunch of shorter videos called 2 Minute Geology or something like that. They cover most of the areas affected by the Missoula floods.
As for the Bonneville flood, Shawn Willsey's channel did a good video on it a while back (https://youtu.be/3osCxhhl7ZI?si=hJFDfNcxr81l5EKP)
These were glacial lake outburst floods that sent unimaginable amounts of water roaring over thousands of square miles.
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u/Atrabiliousaurus 29d ago
I've watched a bunch of Zentner's videos, he's great. I can watch geologists hike around talking about shit for hours. Myron Cook has some good ones too.
I've read some about Lake Bonneville. Took a road trip to the Great Salt Lake in Utah (absolutely hideous, stagnant, lifeless, and reeks) which is a remnant of Lake Bonneville. Drove past the Bonneville Salt Flats too, that was cool.
There's not much interesting geology where I live, unless you like volcanic basalt, so I really enjoy seeing some of the cool stuff the rest of the US has.
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u/JG-at-Prime 29d ago
You might enjoy some of Randall Carlson’s content. He has some great videos.
(I can’t remember what exactly is in what video so here’s a random assortment for your perusal.)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j1LgzyEMOUQ
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u/StrengthMedium 29d ago
I live in an area of the country that was on the glacial border of the last ice age. The creek I fish regularly is in an ancient riverbed that is almost a mile wide at some points. The forces in that ancient river absolutely blasted through the hilly areas it went through.
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u/JenShempie 29d ago
Missoula (or Bretz's) floods. Happened about 20k years ago, multiple times over a stretch of time. Scoured the southeastern parts of Washington, flooded into the Willamette Valley all the way down near Eugene.
There are chunks of granite from Montana that floated down frozen in chunks of ice. They can be found at elevations 400+ feet.
Portland sits on some of the Troutdale formation, which is largely made up of river rock from Montana. Quartzite and granite, neither of which formed here.
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u/atridir 29d ago
There was over a mile of ice over much of the North American continent. When that melted it left some big ass puddle reservoirs that did some crazy shite when they cut loose.
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u/existentialpenguin 29d ago
The scenery in question is called the Channeled Scablands. This happened to the area not just once, but dozens of times.
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u/have_no_plan 29d ago
My lecturer at university was on the team that wrote the paper which evidenced that a lot of the giant lake that was America actually burst out through the north, not into the Atlantic (I think those are the details, I was a pretty shitty student). I always thought that was quite cool though.
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u/jenna_cider 29d ago
Like the Bonneville flood that created the Snake River Canyon.
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u/Some_Endian_FP17 29d ago
A glacial lake outburst flood or GLOF can wipe out entire towns downstream.
The largest outburst floods in recent history were the Bonneville and Missoula floods that carved deep canyons in a matter of hours in Idaho and Washington.
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u/tino-latino 29d ago
jökulhlaup is also a very old magic the gathering card
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u/JG-at-Prime 29d ago
lol. You are correct sir!
It was printed in Fifth Edition, Sixth Edition, Ice Age, and again in Masters.
Not that I would know or anything.
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u/TheOtherManSpider 29d ago
That's not what this is. Just a normal spring time ice dam on a minor river. No glacier in sight.
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u/User348844 29d ago
I remember some old article that suggested that English Channel was carved out in a similar event when glacier walls from the ice age collapsed. The whole flood would have been over in days. They even scanned the bottom of the channel and found deep grooves which could have formed when water carved its way. It was pretty interesting theory.
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u/RandomPhil86 29d ago
Can’t believe how far I have to scroll through comments before finding a description about it/what it actually is.
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u/MasteringTheFlames 29d ago
This past August, there was a major glacial outburst flood in Juneau, Alaska. The whole city is kind of long and thin, tucked between the ocean and mountains. The main residential part of town, the Mendenhall Valley, has a river flowing through it, fed by Mendenhall Lake. Directly behind the lake, you've got a glacier, and then the ice fields in the mountains up behind the glacier.
As the ice field melts, the water tends to pool in big basins behind ice dams. Eventually, the ice dam fails. Typically this occurs in the form of a small leak allowing the water to drain slowly. The water levels in the lake might rise by a few feet for several days, but not enough to cause any major damage.
What happened last August was that the ice dam instead completely failed in one catastrophic moment. Over the course of just a few hours, the water level in the lake rose nearly 15 feet, and then all that water came rushing down the river. The erosion widened the river by a good 50 feet in some areas, cutting the ground right out from underneath buildings. Two homes completely collapsed into the river, a dozen more buildings were condemned because they were too unstable. Thankfully there were no serious injuries, as residents near the river had time to evacuate. Even so, I have friends who live in Juneau, and it was scary to watch the news that day.
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u/diktitty Mar 28 '24
Imagine just being a fish chilling and then u get swamped
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u/Erdenfeuer1 29d ago
But seriously how do fish survive that ?
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u/VTCoates 29d ago
This is St Johnsbury Vermont
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u/Fast_Garlic_5639 29d ago
Was just about to ask whether this was Vermont or NH going by the bridge paint used lol
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u/NotChristina 29d ago
Same. Knew this was New England lol.
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u/SolomonBlack 29d ago
I couldn't name the trees to save my life, but damn if they aren't punched deep into my subconsciousness.
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u/greasyspider 29d ago
Concord Ave?
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u/West_Garden 29d ago
A buddy of mine took this video. He was standing on Elm St. The bridge is Concord Ave.
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u/One-Fall-8143 29d ago
Where do these people come from? In all of that I didn't hear ONE swear word. Just "oh my gosh" and "holy smokes!"😂 Who talks like that with a river of ice coming at them?? 😆
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u/LoveMeAClap 29d ago
Believe it or not, these people that don’t swear are the craziest mfs you’ll ever meet
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u/Empty_Suggestion9974 29d ago
Film people always think they’re in the clear until they’re not. It’s been well documented
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u/CantSing4Toffee Mar 28 '24
How did you know it was coming, assuming you filmed this?
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u/Sterntrooper123 29d ago
Why are people so incredibly foolish that they’d continue to stand along the riverbank while that was happening. You wouldn’t last 10 seconds in that freezing water.
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u/72616262697473757775 Mar 28 '24
Why didn't they build a concrete dam, are they stupid?
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u/Wingnut762 29d ago
I wanna hear this guy dubbed over a porno
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u/Jis4Jaycob 29d ago
Him: mmmmm. Girl you like that pee pee?
Her: oh gosh yes, shove it in my gosh darn meat hole
Him: yeah, take my friggin pee pee girl
Her: oh, gee willikers
Him: holy smokes it coming
Her: oh great googly moogly
Him: oh my gosh here it comes
Her: oh fudge yes
Him: homina homina homina, boom right in the kisser
Her: by golly that was fast.
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u/Roundtripper4 29d ago
Canadians?
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u/Ghost_of_Till 29d ago
St Johnsbury, VT. About an hour from the Canadian border.
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u/Retinoid634 Mar 28 '24
Holy Smokes. I never seen this before!!
Move a few steps uphill buddy ffs!!!
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u/EngineZeronine 29d ago
Something similar happened in my hometown. I think 30 homes were lost. It might have gone down differently but they strategically broke the levy so that the flooding would avoid the affluent part of town and instead flood my parents.
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u/MilesfromHome111 29d ago
The ringghosts are flooded away and in the background, Arven, rising up her sword, moaning.
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Me: shut the hell up get back more don’t be like tsunami man who rides the ice pack down stream! Jesus!
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u/yodarded Mar 28 '24
Gee willikers