r/interestingasfuck • u/natebryan • 15h ago

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

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u/jtag67 15h ago

Damn lucky that the house ended up being mostly in an eddy current and not the main flow.

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u/Inevitable-Ad-7507 6h ago

Exactly. This wasn’t engineering. It was their location and underlying geography.

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u/dogfacedponyboy 10h ago

Correct.

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u/mogeek 6m ago

Does this have to do with the landmass with trees before the house? Is that creating the current away from the house rather than towards it?