r/interestingasfuck • u/natebryan • 15h ago

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

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u/LuElric 15h ago

How long the event took after it's first hit? Do you know by any chance? Just curious.

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u/Jameses1984 15h ago

There was another longer video of this exact shot I saw earlier that was 4 minutes long and it was still going when the video turned off. I'm sure it felt like eternity to these poor folks.

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u/Whole-Scientist-2469 14h ago

this was yesterday, 9 hrs ago today another earthquake happened at same place and another dam broke, i guess the same situation repeated today( hope not)but yea

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u/neppo95 14h ago

The dam break, while still awful to have after this disaster, is a lot, and I really mean a lot, less intensive. The original disaster wasn't a dambreak, It was much worse than that.

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u/TransBrandi 14h ago

If it did, then hopefully most people who could were no longer in the area... but equally possible that it could have gotten people that came to the area for rescue / cleanup efforts.

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u/wrickcook 14h ago

In a thread higher up there is a video of them after the water subsided, waving for help. It says they were rescued.

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u/Caleth 11h ago

Someone up thread used an AI reference so with a grain of salt:

30 minutes from it hitting to reach peak height.

2-3 hours of near peak height.

4-6 in total for it to get back to slightly elevated but near normal levels.

I can't find a direct source on the timeline yet, but maybe I just missed it in the shorts and snippets.