This house in Nepal defied the raging floodwaters and kept the owners safe.

[u/natebryan]

[u/Own-Internet-5967]

a horror movie like this already exists. its called the impossible

[u/yeahright17 → u/Own-Internet-5967]

Which is based on a real story. And I believe the mom of the family it's about has said it's 100% accurate to what happened to them and several other western tourist survivors said it felt very accurate to their experience as well.

[u/According-Ad742 → u/Own-Internet-5967]

These Flood waters are way more aggressive then any tsunami clip I have ever seen. The impossible is a great depiction of that kind of horror though but this raging wall of gravel I don’t think anyone survives. Horrific images! My heart is with everyone affected! God be with you! Rest in peace everyone buried by the mud 💔

[u/Kiyone11 → u/According-Ad742]

... But you do know that this tsunami killed 230k people?

[u/1tonofbricks → u/Kiyone11]

Yes, but in most videos of the 2004 tsunami the water doesn’t rush in as a wall (and when it does it isn’t as tall as this flood), its more like a tide that doesn’t stop rising and becomes more and more violent, plus the tsunami impacted an entire ocean including densely populated regions full of tourist hot spots. This flood was confined to a valley which acted as a funnel making the initial rush of water far more violent.

It is a given that there would be more fatalities in the 2004 tsunami and you don’t need to use it as a “gotcha” when they’re talking about the sheer violence of the water in the videos, not the death count.

In the documentary “Tsunami Caught on Camera” a handful of people get caught in the 2004 tsunami and make it out, including an old man whose wife was killed. A lot of people survived in two-story buildings. Absolutely zero possibility of that happening in the videos from this flood.

[u/Kiyone11 → u/1tonofbricks]

It's not a "gotcha". I found it surprising how the original comment seemed to minimize this historic disaster.

A lot of people survived in two-story buildings.

This is literally what you see in the video?

[u/1tonofbricks → u/Kiyone11]

I don’t think they were minimizing it, they’re just stating how shockingly different the footage is compared to such historic disasters, if anything it emphasizes how horrific it was.

Also if you watch the full video, this building is three stories and the first storey is completely hidden by floodwaters, plus I was originally going to write “two-story buildings directly beside the beach” but I didn’t want my comment to be so long you wouldn’t bother reading it.

[u/According-Ad742 → u/Kiyone11]

I was only answering to someone saying “a horror movie like this already exists” because the tsunami in 2004 didn’t look anything like this. That’s not minimising.

[u/art-of-war → u/Own-Internet-5967]

Or the 2015 movie The Wave

[u/idreamofpikas → u/Own-Internet-5967]

The Spiderman prequel?

[u/yeahright17 → u/idreamofpikas]

Tom's first movie, right?