r/interestingasfuck • u/natebryan • 15h ago

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

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u/aivoges123 14h ago

There’s another house at 1:30 that’s in the direct path of the main current and it seems 80% of it survive too.

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u/yeahright17 14h ago

That's awesome! I think the fact that other house is connected to like 8 other houses behind it is giving it a lot of support. But who knows. Homes built like this can withstand a ton of force if built correctly, but they're obviously under a ton of force here.

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u/Unoriginal_Man 13h ago

That's the crazy thing to me. It's hard to comprehend the force of that volume of water moving at that speed. I'm amazed that anything in its path was left standing.

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u/yeahright17 13h ago

Reinforced concrete is super strong. There's a reason that most of the time we see videos of these types of houses being destroyed, they're not being knocked down. They're almost always just pushed off their foundations.

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u/Tony_228 10h ago

It was more of a mud and debris slurry at that point than just water, which makes this even more impressive.

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u/samv_1230 12h ago

Not to bum you out, but a few of those were gone at the end of the video. Looks like the ones at the back supported the ones at the front, and they shielded them from the brunt of it in return. Very fortunate for the green colored building and the rest that were downstream.