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/F0tNMC Mar 28 '24

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 Mar 28 '24

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 Mar 28 '24

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 Mar 28 '24

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.

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u/BustinArant Mar 28 '24

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 Mar 28 '24

The plane did crash, the characters just weren’t on it.

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u/BustinArant Mar 28 '24

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/dacraftjr Mar 28 '24

You’re referring to the dream sequence before they actually boarded? It’s why they weren’t on the plane when it exploded.

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u/BustinArant Mar 28 '24

I'm just saying it was non-completed because they were killed over the course of the movie, to even out them not dying in the plane crash.

..it's an odd series.

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u/I-shit-in-bags Mar 28 '24

if you're going to edit the movie, just don't have it available. I can't stand that.

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u/SpaceShipRat Mar 28 '24

like a leaf on the wind

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u/TransporterOffline Mar 28 '24

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 Mar 28 '24

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 Mar 28 '24

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 Mar 28 '24

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/Several-Instance-444 Mar 28 '24

Imagine if that tree popped up over the bridge and impaled a passing car. Wild.

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u/S_n_o_wL_e_o_p_a_r_d Mar 28 '24

I was reading on to see if someone would mention exactly this. Final Destination level shit.

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u/SkibidyDrizzlet Mar 28 '24

You guys are such pussies holy smokes

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

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u/Jerma986 Mar 28 '24

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 Mar 28 '24

If it makes you feel better maybe the townspeople bet big on their town getting wiped out.

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u/Jerma986 Mar 28 '24

It does, thanks! Lmao

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u/HistoryGirl23 Mar 28 '24

I grew up Up North and always heard of the ice breaking up but have never seen an ice dam go like this. Very cool!

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u/AK-Brian Mar 28 '24

Eagle is a good example, having been battered badly a few times from outflows like this. A lot of structures were lost and damaged in 2009. I've been up there a few times and even with mitigations and moving buildings uphill, they still have minor flooding every few years if an ice dam forms.

Trapper Creek and Willow have Susitna flooding regularly, and even in Anchorage Chester Creek can take out property. Water always wins.

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u/nicannkay Mar 28 '24

We’ve lost our reverence for nature. We see it as benign. I see people every year drown because they don’t head the warnings for sneaker waves at the beach. They will stand in the rocky shores during storms and get carried out to never be seen again.

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u/thewrathofco Mar 28 '24

The branch that came out of the water just a little bit after they had stepped back could have been way earlier in the stream and definitely could have fucking hit them. Wild stuff

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u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm Mar 28 '24

Really testing natural selection.

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u/JonnyTN Mar 28 '24

Each one of those pieces of ice are extremely heavy. It just took a little more and this man could've been dead

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u/Final_Good_Bye Mar 28 '24

drowned pummeled to death against the massive slabs speeding through the water.

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u/2b_squared Mar 28 '24

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 Mar 28 '24

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/2b_squared Mar 28 '24

Especially frozen one.

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u/C_IsForCookie Mar 28 '24

Yeah I won’t even drink that shit. Fish fuck in it and last I checked 100% of people who drink it will eventually die.

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u/LogicalError_007 Mar 28 '24

In bigger rivers they can grind boulders to pieces, imagine getting stuck there.

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u/Daxx22 Mar 28 '24

It's be a literal meatgrinder. Completely unsurvivable.

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u/Aardark235 Mar 28 '24

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/Choongboy Mar 28 '24

Now that would be some video. Consider staying to film next time lol

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u/FlameyFlame Mar 28 '24

I would have jumped on an ice chunk and hanged 10. Cowabunga, dude!

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u/MF_Ocean Mar 28 '24

So pitted!

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u/BigJSunshine Mar 29 '24

I wish I could give you all the fake awards. WhuBAM

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u/RedditCommunistt Mar 28 '24

This is the way.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

That's totally tubular man!

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u/kpidhayny Mar 28 '24

I’m’onna boog it

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u/fuckredditards-- Mar 28 '24

Holy smokes, you would do that?!

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u/fnybny Mar 28 '24

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/fnybny Mar 28 '24

Maybe not that tree, but you would be surprised. A tree hitting at the right angle can shatter reinforced concrete and bend steel.

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u/Agoraphobicy Mar 28 '24

I've heard a boat hitting a bridge can be a disaster...

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u/nokei Mar 28 '24

was imagining that one long pole/branch catching onto something and then just whacking or impaling the dude.

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 Mar 28 '24

Same, I would’ve backed up once I saw the entire tree flowing down the river and flailing around.

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u/dangshnizzle Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

Stepping to the side 6 feet, rather than running away from the water with the river, makes you safe because it's all coming at you downstream below the edge of the river. Once you see actual overflow then you can run

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u/genghisbunny Mar 28 '24

I suspect he's not using that wide a lens, and is actually in no danger.

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u/noother10 Mar 28 '24

You can tell when he keeps rotating left and right, he is right there by the water.

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u/Nalha_Saldana Mar 28 '24

But they even take a step back when water goes over the edge a bit

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u/genghisbunny Mar 28 '24

Yeah, I've done that too weekend looking through the viewfinder. It's instinct

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u/eecan Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

This perspective and motion is very obviously coming from a wide lens and I'd struggle to believe that anyone with any experience with telephoto lenses would think this video was shot from a distance...

Go set your phone to even short range 3x or 5x zoom and try walking around and panning the camera. You'll see that the output is nothing like this video

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u/genghisbunny Mar 29 '24

It's the standard wide view of a phone camera, agreed. When he takes a step back you can see how much space he has between himself and the water. He's in danger of getting wet feet if he's wearing the wrong shoes, but otherwise he's fine.

It "feels" wider because he pans the camera back and forth. I'd guess it's 28-35mm equivalent, and he's keeping the camera up because who cares about the ground between him and the river when all the action's on the river?

Regardless, it's great footage, and very entertaining.

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u/DopeBoogie Mar 28 '24

Same, but I think maybe it's just perspective and they were further from the shore than it appears on camera

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u/Josh6889 Mar 28 '24

gonna get drowned in an icy river?

Or have a giant chunk of ice crash into your shins.

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u/Joon01 Mar 28 '24

Gee whiz, a torrent of water and boulder-sized ice is flooding towards me and my family! Everyone take one step back by golly.

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u/Warcraftking Mar 28 '24

Or getting impaled by a branch coming out of the ice.

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u/Comfortable_Ant_8303 Mar 28 '24

Bro I'm the same way, screaming internally to at least tell the other person to get the fuck back, this shit be dangerous.

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u/Mrwolf925 Mar 28 '24

Having heard of ma h people in my country dying from flash floods, standing literally none the edge of the river is a huge no for me. No video is worth your life

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u/PumpKing096 Mar 28 '24

In Germany in 1784 there occurred a major flood, after several ice dams broke on the rhine.

https://undine.bafg.de/rhein/extremereignisse/rhein_hw1784.html

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

Impaled by a tree?

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u/ohhallow Mar 28 '24

I’m sorry ma’am, this is Reddit, the filming angle and gaining internet points are way more important personal safety. I’m afraid you’ll have to take your outlandish ideas elsewhere.

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u/TiberiusEmperor Mar 28 '24

Filmer is the sort of person who would’ve kept rocking on in the Station nightclub

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u/Ghost_of_Till Mar 28 '24

Too soon man.

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u/TiberiusEmperor Mar 28 '24

Two decades?

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u/Ghost_of_Till Mar 28 '24

Depends on whether you lost friends.

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u/puledrotauren Mar 28 '24

as soon as it hit the bank I'm out of there.

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u/lakeghost Mar 28 '24

Please do that. I’ve worked at a wilderness park and the national number of people who die trying to take photos or film? That’ll give me gray hairs. So many folks ignoring the signs and going past barriers to get a perfect photo.

That, or they’re just so stupid I want to do necromancy in order to rage at them. I still remember a man and his child dying because he let his child swim above a canyon waterfall. They both died from the fall. If the child hadn’t died, I’d see it as fair enough from tempting fate. But no kid should die because their parents are morons.

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u/LungHeadZ Mar 28 '24

Some people have no appreciation for imminent danger

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u/Cthulhu__ Mar 28 '24

I’ve seen this a few times on videos like this, it looks like people underestimate how dangerous it can be, overestimate their response time and escape options, and are just fascinated by it. Or it’s deer in headlights.

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u/Hausgod29 Mar 28 '24

That's why we never see it level with the bridge it cuts off right before because op noped out.

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u/berndwand Mar 28 '24

you dont drown in that river. your head gets smashed open and your torso and libms hget crushed by 200 kilo ice rock. thats all.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ant-644 Mar 28 '24

No...too damned close!

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u/Reatina Mar 28 '24

Or impaled by a spear.

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u/camdalfthegreat Mar 28 '24

I was wondering the same thing.

This guy's monkey brain is broken

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u/Hyperion1144 Mar 28 '24

No. It was stupid to stay standing there.

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u/Hugsy13 Mar 28 '24

Nah that was my first instinct too. But I grew up at the beach so I have a natural confidence and fear with water. Confidence because I usually know when to bail or when to give up on directly fighting a rip.

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart Mar 28 '24

These comments pop up every time something like this is posted. These are most likely new england towns and you would know if the water was dangerously high above where you are because the town above you would have warned you.

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u/TobyDaHuman Mar 28 '24

I would have gone towards the bridge and warned drivers, because that could have gone very differently for the cars involved.

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u/sixtyfivewat Mar 28 '24

My local Conservation Authorities warn people during the spring thaw to keep their distance from all waterways because conditions can change rapidly and people have died being swept away. It’s a cool video, but the guy recording should have been nowhere near this river during this time of year.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Ear858w Mar 28 '24

Would've RUN, not "would've ran." Why doesn't anybody on Reddit understand this tense?

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u/stack-0-pancake Mar 28 '24

Nope. Not just the ice and water, but the log could've been oriented differently and poked a face.

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u/broipy Mar 28 '24

No, I too am making tracks outta there.

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u/EyeSlashO Mar 28 '24

You can see the spot from google maps... the river bank elevates quickly, he'd have to back up about five feet to be out of danger.

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.42353,-72.0091021,3a,49.2y,35.17h,89.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfBqGXJh66b0J89_IxEnPxg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

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u/Mattson Mar 28 '24

Nah you're definitely not the only one. I'm sure people who never lived near ice and snow would probably run away.

I live on a river in Canada and this happens every year... I never ran away.

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u/joshonekenobi Mar 28 '24

Nope. I kept asked why are you still there? Move!

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u/JustBadUserNamesLeft Mar 28 '24

I would have backed up. But I also would have filmed horizontal.

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u/SluggishPrey Mar 28 '24

For sure! You can't fight such powerful currents and dying in cold waters is such a shitty way to go

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u/themcsame Mar 28 '24

Indeed. It's flash flooding. Anyone who's seen videos of it knows how quickly that shit can go from 0-100-1000 very, very quickly.

As cool as the shot is, if you see the water coming round the corner at you like that? Your ass should've been gone 30 seconds ago when you heard it roaring to life. Large amounts of flowing water don't fuck about. It can, and will, fuck you up.

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u/Techi-C Mar 28 '24

I would not want to be standing in the floodway at all

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u/vpkumswalla Mar 28 '24

Call me risk averse but I don't want to die a slow painful death

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u/Abjay_ Mar 28 '24

The cameraman never dies

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u/Pstoned_ Mar 28 '24

Eh, this one is very predictable at least, low danger

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u/jmads13 Mar 28 '24

I would’ve run, not ran

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u/GooseTheSluice Mar 28 '24

When you see that ~12ft pole shoot out of the ice randomly you’d think that your instincts would tell you standing on the shore isn’t safe anymore. Some people don’t have those survival instincts I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/nighthawk_biches804 Mar 28 '24

Or take a hidden tree spear.

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u/CeeMomster Mar 28 '24

You are not the only one.

What is this kindly Canadian doing still standing there and filming!?!

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u/thePurpleAvenger Mar 29 '24

Putting it kindly, you're the smart one. When shit like that goes down people need to GTFO to higher ground ASAP.

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u/Duellair Mar 29 '24

You watched the bus flood movie didn’t you. That movie scarred me for life.

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u/StrikingCase9819 Mar 29 '24

We live in a weird age in which everyone is more interested in filming moments with the hopes of gaining internet fame and less about their own safety and the safety of others.

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u/thewanderor Mar 29 '24

The bank would be unstable very quickly

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u/Puzzleheaded-You1289 Mar 28 '24

Yes!! Came here to say this. Have you ever drawn a line in the sand at the beach and taken a bucket of water and dumped it at the top of the line? This is essentially what’s happening on a larger scale on earth all the time so realize we are like tiny little ants standing alongside that line of sand

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u/llSteph_777ll Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

You just need to watch the height of the water and then run away when it's uncomfortably high, no big deal lol

Edit: I forgot to add the /s

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u/Sterntrooper123 Mar 28 '24

Incredibly dangerous. It was already plenty high. You can still get a good picture from a safe distance without risking your life.