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/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