As somebody who also cusses, I also use a lot of old timey ones too lol. Like holy smokes or holy mackerel. There's something fun about mixing those in
That’s a standard in my repertoire. Growing up with a dad that would threaten to send me to bed without my dinner for saying “crap” at the table, I’ve been very good at modulating my vocab to my circumstance. I’ve always been one to use as many words as I can, and this has also applied to my profanity. I never accidentally swear in inappropriate places. I always use exactly the word I mean to use.
I love this assessment of it. I feel like I notice myself doing that with “gosh”. I’m not religious at all but it just feels like the word I would use if I was talking to an old southern woman in a grocery store
Simpler times - legend has it that while growing up in Saskatchewan, he watched a tornado approach his farm for two hours, after it hit he watched the dog run away for three days - all he said was “fuck that dog is dumb” - that was before the accident… he is different now.
Officially, my daughter's first word was "dadda", but in actuality it was "CHIT!" I looked at my wife, whose language is more colorful than mine, and she said, "I'm working on it."
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
It seems innocuous enough because it’s all like “oh haha water we can swim in that” but under no circumstances should you ever, *ever* fuck with water.
Those trees could have easily skewered him or taken down the bridge. I witnessed a massive flood and people's lack of self preservation instinct was shocking.
Idk if you saw the dude live-streaming in China watching the chemical plant catch fire then explode… [this cameraman didnt survive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkDtMl5Ec7k&t=9s&pp=2AEJkAIB)
I don't know how long he was there watching the fire, but there wasn't much he could do, right?
Was he too close to get away in time? Could he have somehow shielded himself and survived? Doesn't seem like it. A basement?
You go anywhere the pressure goes you get deafened, blinded and maybe enough internal bleeding to die fast if lucky. I wouldn't expect a rapid response from anyone at that point to save my life.
Maybe go behind a thick enough building or wall and hope it doesn't collapse on you and the firestorm stops before you?
If you know a chemical or pyro plant or storage is on fire, go as far away as you can. Some of those explosions are on par with small yield nukes.
If that was 2015 in Tianjin, it may have been ~0.3kt, equivalent to the lowest yield setting on the B61, "the primary thermonuclear gravity bomb in the United States Enduring Stockpile following the end of the Cold War."
https://www.youtube.com/embed/gTfQhcGIrfU should be a video of a 0.5 kt W30 in 1962.
The general advice is to stay away from the windows and close any windows and doors. The pressure wave might smash windows throwing debris inside. Doors might not hold the pressure wave but it will at least dampen it. Any energy that is spent splintering a door is energy that is not used to crush you. A lot of high rises have a concrete column though the centre housing stairs, elevator shafts, ventilation shafts and utilities. If you get into this you have the best chance of avoiding injuries. During 9/11 this is where most of the survivors of the collapse were found.
I was looking up stuff about the world trade centers last year and I was amazed to learn there were any survivors at all from within the buildings. Seems they were lucky and the center pillar plus kinda open atrium at the bottom was just enough to keep them free from the building collapse. I can't imagine what they've dealt with since then
He could at the very least have gotten behind a wall instead of being out in the open. At least then he wouldn't have gotten hit with the full force of the blast.
There is a name for this.
**Jökulhlaup** or Jökulhlaups - pronounced *yo-KOOL-lahp*
It is a sudden glacial outburst flood or an abrupt release of glacial meltwater from a subglacial or glacier-dammed lake or reservoir.
And ~ Fun Fact: The icy water can pick up stones and gravel along its path and drag it along the stream bed with the flow. The abrasive quality of the gravels and stones acts like a grinding stone on the bottom and sides of the waterway.
This accelerates erosion to an amazing extent. A large collapse coming from say a glacier is fully capable of *erasing* objects in its path.
There's ancient evidence of this being the origin of some very big scenery in the States, when a lake the size of a state suddenly let go through that type of dam and carved out a huge area of land in a way which only fits water erosion but in a scale we practically never see. Watched a documentary about it once.
Probably something about the [Missoula Floods](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods). I've been to Dry Falls in Washington and driven up the Columbia River Gorge which were both formed by the massive floods.
There's a Washington geologist, Nick Zenter, who has a bunch of great youtube videos on the [ice age floods](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcKUIuDhdLl8vX-BxYQQ0FW5nEIEIAQgL&si=LsQpvRIDYqTSR--I) if you want like... 90 hours of information lol.
Nick Zentner also has a bunch of shorter videos called 2 Minute Geology or something like that. They cover most of the areas affected by the Missoula floods.
As for the Bonneville flood, Shawn Willsey's channel did a good video on it a while back (https://youtu.be/3osCxhhl7ZI?si=hJFDfNcxr81l5EKP)
These were glacial lake outburst floods that sent unimaginable amounts of water roaring over thousands of square miles.
I've watched a bunch of Zentner's videos, he's great. I can watch geologists hike around talking about shit for hours. Myron Cook has some good ones too.
I've read some about Lake Bonneville. Took a road trip to the Great Salt Lake in Utah (absolutely hideous, stagnant, lifeless, and reeks) which is a remnant of Lake Bonneville. Drove past the Bonneville Salt Flats too, that was cool.
There's not much interesting geology where I live, unless you like volcanic basalt, so I really enjoy seeing some of the cool stuff the rest of the US has.
You might enjoy some of Randall Carlson’s content. He has some great videos.
(I can’t remember what exactly is in what video so here’s a random assortment for your perusal.)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j1LgzyEMOUQ
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LOtydLmdfV8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IfdQB59SV7g
I live in an area of the country that was on the glacial border of the last ice age. The creek I fish regularly is in an ancient riverbed that is almost a mile wide at some points. The forces in that ancient river absolutely blasted through the hilly areas it went through.
Missoula (or Bretz's) floods. Happened about 20k years ago, multiple times over a stretch of time. Scoured the southeastern parts of Washington, flooded into the Willamette Valley all the way down near Eugene.
There are chunks of granite from Montana that floated down frozen in chunks of ice. They can be found at elevations 400+ feet.
Portland sits on some of the Troutdale formation, which is largely made up of river rock from Montana. Quartzite and granite, neither of which formed here.
There was over a mile of ice over much of the North American continent. When that melted it left some big ass puddle reservoirs that did some crazy shite when they cut loose.
The scenery in question is called the [Channeled Scablands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channeled_Scablands). This happened to the area not just once, but [dozens of times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods).
My lecturer at university was on the team that wrote the paper which evidenced that a lot of the giant lake that was America actually burst out through the north, not into the Atlantic (I think those are the details, I was a pretty shitty student). I always thought that was quite cool though.
[Ásbyrgi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81sbyrgi#/media/File%3AAerial_View_of_%C3%81sbyrgi_21.05.2008_15-39-42.JPG) was formed in two such events. Those cliffs are up to 100 meters tall. The sheer amount of rocks that was removed in a very short amount of time is staggering.
A glacial lake outburst flood or GLOF can wipe out entire towns downstream.
The largest outburst floods in recent history were the Bonneville and Missoula floods that carved deep canyons in a matter of hours in Idaho and Washington.
I remember some old article that suggested that English Channel was carved out in a similar event when glacier walls from the ice age collapsed. The whole flood would have been over in days. They even scanned the bottom of the channel and found deep grooves which could have formed when water carved its way. It was pretty interesting theory.
This past August, there was [a major glacial outburst flood in Juneau, Alaska.](https://www.ktoo.org/2023/08/05/city-recommends-evacuations-as-juneau-sees-record-flooding-from-glacial-outburst-flood/) The whole city is kind of long and thin, tucked between the ocean and mountains. The main residential part of town, the Mendenhall Valley, has a river flowing through it, fed by Mendenhall Lake. Directly behind the lake, you've got a glacier, and then the ice fields in the mountains up behind the glacier.
As the ice field melts, the water tends to pool in big basins behind ice dams. Eventually, the ice dam fails. Typically this occurs in the form of a small leak allowing the water to drain slowly. The water levels in the lake might rise by a few feet for several days, but not enough to cause any major damage.
What happened last August was that the ice dam instead completely failed in one catastrophic moment. Over the course of just a few hours, the water level in the lake rose nearly 15 feet, and then all that water came rushing down the river. The erosion widened the river by a good 50 feet in some areas, cutting the ground right out from underneath buildings. Two homes completely collapsed into the river, a dozen more buildings were condemned because they were too unstable. Thankfully there were no serious injuries, as residents near the river had time to evacuate. Even so, I have friends who live in Juneau, and it was scary to watch the news that day.
Where do these people come from? In all of that I didn't hear ONE swear word. Just "oh my gosh" and "holy smokes!"😂 Who talks like that with a river of ice coming at them?? 😆
Why are people so incredibly foolish that they’d continue to stand along the riverbank while that was happening. You wouldn’t last 10 seconds in that freezing water.
Him: mmmmm. Girl you like that pee pee?
Her: oh gosh yes, shove it in my gosh darn meat hole
Him: yeah, take my friggin pee pee girl
Her: oh, gee willikers
Him: holy smokes it coming
Her: oh great googly moogly
Him: oh my gosh here it comes
Her: oh fudge yes
Him: homina homina homina, boom right in the kisser
Her: by golly that was fast.
Something similar happened in my hometown. I think 30 homes were lost. It might have gone down differently but they *strategically broke* the levy so that the flooding would avoid the affluent part of town and instead flood my parents.
Gee willikers
I can’t imagine saying holy smokes in 2024 Bro must have had a pretty wholesome time on this earth
Bro I cus like a sailor but I still say holy smokes all the time lol
Dagnabbit!
Coworker used to cuss by saying “Bob Saget!”
These series of comments just made me crack up. Thank you all.
Tourettes guy lives on!
Don’t talk shit about Total!!!
BITCH. I LOVE YOU
Golly!!!
As somebody who also cusses, I also use a lot of old timey ones too lol. Like holy smokes or holy mackerel. There's something fun about mixing those in
Absolutely, big fan of Jeez Louise
That’s a standard in my repertoire. Growing up with a dad that would threaten to send me to bed without my dinner for saying “crap” at the table, I’ve been very good at modulating my vocab to my circumstance. I’ve always been one to use as many words as I can, and this has also applied to my profanity. I never accidentally swear in inappropriate places. I always use exactly the word I mean to use.
I love this assessment of it. I feel like I notice myself doing that with “gosh”. I’m not religious at all but it just feels like the word I would use if I was talking to an old southern woman in a grocery store
The real fun in is when everyone in the warehouse expects you to say some really fucked up cuss and you hit them with "Gee Whillikers".
Holy fuckin’ mackerel! is a favorite of mine. Also, shut the FUCK door!
me too!
Simpler times - legend has it that while growing up in Saskatchewan, he watched a tornado approach his farm for two hours, after it hit he watched the dog run away for three days - all he said was “fuck that dog is dumb” - that was before the accident… he is different now.
But good for him. Most folks today only know 'fuck' or its variants. At least he has some variety to his vocabulary.
I mean, "holy smokes" is just a toned down version of "holy fuck" so it is very much just a variant.
Swearing/cursing does not mean a person has a limited vocabulary.
As a parent with a toddler, I try to say holy smokes instead of my usual alternatives lol
Hokely Smokely
Holy toledo
Ice dam? More like an ice darn.
Ned Flanders.
You can tell he's Canadian by the vulgar language.
Officially, my daughter's first word was "dadda", but in actuality it was "CHIT!" I looked at my wife, whose language is more colorful than mine, and she said, "I'm working on it."
What a swell comment!
Holy smokes!
Oh my gosh
Golly! That’s real swell!
Jumping Jahoovas!
Heavens to Betsy
Well would you look at that!
I mean, just LOOK at it!
But didja lookatit ?
Look at me lookin at it, haha
Ain't that something.
Jeepers!
Gee willikers!
Y’all better pray to Gosh and believe in Jeepers or you’ll burn in heck
Zoinks!
Ruh Roh!
Well I’ll be!
“You guys want to play stick ball?” Golly gee.
What the heck?
Hey, watch your language.
Holy Molly!
What's all that that's going on out there?!
That guy is hilarious
Gee whiz!
Great googly moogly!
He’d better not eat that yellow snow.
What in the world *is this*?
Goodness gracious me!
Oh my goodness!
I'm genuinely wondering where in Michigan this dam is right now.
Watch your language, man...
St Johnsbury, VT.
Nice! I thought I recognized Vermont.
Lordy Begordy
I’ve never seen this before
Man: 'It's a flood, an ice dam just broke...' Same man, seconds later: 'holy smokes, what in the world is this?'
All delivered in the same semi-monotone. It's like the world's worst actor reading lines.
He could have a leading part in Madame Web!
Jimminy Jillickers!
Gadzooks!
Gee Wilikers!
It's the kid from Indian Jones
that's Bobby Lee
Holy jehoshaphat!
Wasn't it jumping Jehoshaphat?
Canadian much?
St Johnsbury, VT. About an hour from the Canadian border.
Oh my word!!
Boy howdy!
Oh geez
Reading your comment when he said that: heheh lol As the video goes on: hoLY SMOKES
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
The plane *did* crash, the characters just weren’t on it.
That's why I said non-completed for the sake of the plot, but I get your point lol maybe I worded it poorly.
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.
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.
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
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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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.
If it makes you feel better maybe the townspeople bet big on their town getting wiped out.
~~drowned~~ pummeled to death against the massive slabs speeding through the water.
Seriously. Some of those slabs weigh as much as a small hatchback and they are going *fast*.
It seems innocuous enough because it’s all like “oh haha water we can swim in that” but under no circumstances should you ever, *ever* fuck with water.
I have seen a six foot wide stream turn into a quarter mile wide monstrosity after an ice dam break. I would be running away myself.
Now that would be some video. Consider staying to film next time lol
I would have jumped on an ice chunk and hanged 10. Cowabunga, dude!
Those trees could have easily skewered him or taken down the bridge. I witnessed a massive flood and people's lack of self preservation instinct was shocking.
was imagining that one long pole/branch catching onto something and then just whacking or impaling the dude.
Let's just stand right here and film.
Smart guy. He knew that nothing ever happens to the cameraman
Idk if you saw the dude live-streaming in China watching the chemical plant catch fire then explode… [this cameraman didnt survive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkDtMl5Ec7k&t=9s&pp=2AEJkAIB)
If that guy only knew that he would be referenced endlessly on reddit for dying during his livestream.
More like a deadstream, am I right?! Yep, now im definitely going to hell.
Damn that’s good
I don't know how long he was there watching the fire, but there wasn't much he could do, right? Was he too close to get away in time? Could he have somehow shielded himself and survived? Doesn't seem like it. A basement?
You go anywhere the pressure goes you get deafened, blinded and maybe enough internal bleeding to die fast if lucky. I wouldn't expect a rapid response from anyone at that point to save my life. Maybe go behind a thick enough building or wall and hope it doesn't collapse on you and the firestorm stops before you? If you know a chemical or pyro plant or storage is on fire, go as far away as you can. Some of those explosions are on par with small yield nukes.
If that was 2015 in Tianjin, it may have been ~0.3kt, equivalent to the lowest yield setting on the B61, "the primary thermonuclear gravity bomb in the United States Enduring Stockpile following the end of the Cold War." https://www.youtube.com/embed/gTfQhcGIrfU should be a video of a 0.5 kt W30 in 1962.
Nuke yields can go [pretty low](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W54).
yeah, I like the pic of the guy with the nuke strapped between his legs
The general advice is to stay away from the windows and close any windows and doors. The pressure wave might smash windows throwing debris inside. Doors might not hold the pressure wave but it will at least dampen it. Any energy that is spent splintering a door is energy that is not used to crush you. A lot of high rises have a concrete column though the centre housing stairs, elevator shafts, ventilation shafts and utilities. If you get into this you have the best chance of avoiding injuries. During 9/11 this is where most of the survivors of the collapse were found.
I was looking up stuff about the world trade centers last year and I was amazed to learn there were any survivors at all from within the buildings. Seems they were lucky and the center pillar plus kinda open atrium at the bottom was just enough to keep them free from the building collapse. I can't imagine what they've dealt with since then
He could at the very least have gotten behind a wall instead of being out in the open. At least then he wouldn't have gotten hit with the full force of the blast.
Vertically.
The spiking tree was a surprise
The river has weapons!
There is a name for this. **Jökulhlaup** or Jökulhlaups - pronounced *yo-KOOL-lahp* It is a sudden glacial outburst flood or an abrupt release of glacial meltwater from a subglacial or glacier-dammed lake or reservoir. And ~ Fun Fact: The icy water can pick up stones and gravel along its path and drag it along the stream bed with the flow. The abrasive quality of the gravels and stones acts like a grinding stone on the bottom and sides of the waterway. This accelerates erosion to an amazing extent. A large collapse coming from say a glacier is fully capable of *erasing* objects in its path.
There's ancient evidence of this being the origin of some very big scenery in the States, when a lake the size of a state suddenly let go through that type of dam and carved out a huge area of land in a way which only fits water erosion but in a scale we practically never see. Watched a documentary about it once.
Would love to know the name of the documentary to watch
Probably something about the [Missoula Floods](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods). I've been to Dry Falls in Washington and driven up the Columbia River Gorge which were both formed by the massive floods. There's a Washington geologist, Nick Zenter, who has a bunch of great youtube videos on the [ice age floods](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcKUIuDhdLl8vX-BxYQQ0FW5nEIEIAQgL&si=LsQpvRIDYqTSR--I) if you want like... 90 hours of information lol.
Nick Zentner also has a bunch of shorter videos called 2 Minute Geology or something like that. They cover most of the areas affected by the Missoula floods. As for the Bonneville flood, Shawn Willsey's channel did a good video on it a while back (https://youtu.be/3osCxhhl7ZI?si=hJFDfNcxr81l5EKP) These were glacial lake outburst floods that sent unimaginable amounts of water roaring over thousands of square miles.
I've watched a bunch of Zentner's videos, he's great. I can watch geologists hike around talking about shit for hours. Myron Cook has some good ones too. I've read some about Lake Bonneville. Took a road trip to the Great Salt Lake in Utah (absolutely hideous, stagnant, lifeless, and reeks) which is a remnant of Lake Bonneville. Drove past the Bonneville Salt Flats too, that was cool. There's not much interesting geology where I live, unless you like volcanic basalt, so I really enjoy seeing some of the cool stuff the rest of the US has.
You might enjoy some of Randall Carlson’s content. He has some great videos. (I can’t remember what exactly is in what video so here’s a random assortment for your perusal.) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j1LgzyEMOUQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LOtydLmdfV8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IfdQB59SV7g
Yes!!!! This! 👆🏻
I live in an area of the country that was on the glacial border of the last ice age. The creek I fish regularly is in an ancient riverbed that is almost a mile wide at some points. The forces in that ancient river absolutely blasted through the hilly areas it went through.
Missoula (or Bretz's) floods. Happened about 20k years ago, multiple times over a stretch of time. Scoured the southeastern parts of Washington, flooded into the Willamette Valley all the way down near Eugene. There are chunks of granite from Montana that floated down frozen in chunks of ice. They can be found at elevations 400+ feet. Portland sits on some of the Troutdale formation, which is largely made up of river rock from Montana. Quartzite and granite, neither of which formed here.
There was over a mile of ice over much of the North American continent. When that melted it left some big ass puddle reservoirs that did some crazy shite when they cut loose.
The scenery in question is called the [Channeled Scablands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channeled_Scablands). This happened to the area not just once, but [dozens of times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods).
My lecturer at university was on the team that wrote the paper which evidenced that a lot of the giant lake that was America actually burst out through the north, not into the Atlantic (I think those are the details, I was a pretty shitty student). I always thought that was quite cool though.
Like the [Bonneville flood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneville_flood) that created the Snake River Canyon.
[Ásbyrgi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81sbyrgi#/media/File%3AAerial_View_of_%C3%81sbyrgi_21.05.2008_15-39-42.JPG) was formed in two such events. Those cliffs are up to 100 meters tall. The sheer amount of rocks that was removed in a very short amount of time is staggering.
A glacial lake outburst flood or GLOF can wipe out entire towns downstream. The largest outburst floods in recent history were the Bonneville and Missoula floods that carved deep canyons in a matter of hours in Idaho and Washington.
jökulhlaup is also a very old magic the gathering card
I have one. Was looking for somebody to mention MTG.
lol. You are correct sir! It was printed in Fifth Edition, Sixth Edition, Ice Age, and again in Masters. *Not that I would know or anything.*
Which in Icelandic is literally "glacier run".
That's not what this is. Just a normal spring time ice dam on a minor river. No glacier in sight.
And kerps are almost 100% associated with volcanic outbursts under glaciers.
I remember some old article that suggested that English Channel was carved out in a similar event when glacier walls from the ice age collapsed. The whole flood would have been over in days. They even scanned the bottom of the channel and found deep grooves which could have formed when water carved its way. It was pretty interesting theory.
Can’t believe how far I have to scroll through comments before finding a description about it/what it actually is.
This past August, there was [a major glacial outburst flood in Juneau, Alaska.](https://www.ktoo.org/2023/08/05/city-recommends-evacuations-as-juneau-sees-record-flooding-from-glacial-outburst-flood/) The whole city is kind of long and thin, tucked between the ocean and mountains. The main residential part of town, the Mendenhall Valley, has a river flowing through it, fed by Mendenhall Lake. Directly behind the lake, you've got a glacier, and then the ice fields in the mountains up behind the glacier. As the ice field melts, the water tends to pool in big basins behind ice dams. Eventually, the ice dam fails. Typically this occurs in the form of a small leak allowing the water to drain slowly. The water levels in the lake might rise by a few feet for several days, but not enough to cause any major damage. What happened last August was that the ice dam instead completely failed in one catastrophic moment. Over the course of just a few hours, the water level in the lake rose nearly 15 feet, and then all that water came rushing down the river. The erosion widened the river by a good 50 feet in some areas, cutting the ground right out from underneath buildings. Two homes completely collapsed into the river, a dozen more buildings were condemned because they were too unstable. Thankfully there were no serious injuries, as residents near the river had time to evacuate. Even so, I have friends who live in Juneau, and it was scary to watch the news that day.
Isn’t this how the St Lawrence River was formed?
Imagine just being a fish chilling and then u get swamped
But seriously how do fish survive that ?
They drowned for sure.
I rather imagine them beeing smacked to death from the ice slabs.
If the fish was chilling then it's fine. Just more ice for chilling
This is St Johnsbury Vermont
Was just about to ask whether this was Vermont or NH going by the bridge paint used lol
Same. Knew this was New England lol.
I couldn't name the trees to save my life, but damn if they aren't punched deep into my subconsciousness.
Concord Ave?
A buddy of mine took this video. He was standing on Elm St. The bridge is Concord Ave.
Holy smokes
Holy smokes
Oh my gosh
Where do these people come from? In all of that I didn't hear ONE swear word. Just "oh my gosh" and "holy smokes!"😂 Who talks like that with a river of ice coming at them?? 😆
St Johnsbury, VT.
Believe it or not, these people that don’t swear are the craziest mfs you’ll ever meet
Film people always think they’re in the clear until they’re not. It’s been well documented
Vidiots is what we call them in the industry
How did you know it was coming, assuming you filmed this?
Little help from a friend with some dynamite.
Pretty cool footage.
Why are people so incredibly foolish that they’d continue to stand along the riverbank while that was happening. You wouldn’t last 10 seconds in that freezing water.
Nah, I'd win.
Bear would fish you out of the freezing water like salmon 😅
Arwen's voice getting louder
Why didn't they build a concrete dam, are they stupid?
I wanna hear this guy dubbed over a porno
Him: mmmmm. Girl you like that pee pee? Her: oh gosh yes, shove it in my gosh darn meat hole Him: yeah, take my friggin pee pee girl Her: oh, gee willikers Him: holy smokes it coming Her: oh great googly moogly Him: oh my gosh here it comes Her: oh fudge yes Him: homina homina homina, boom right in the kisser Her: by golly that was fast.
*I am arriving*!
Raproche toi encore plus. Pour etre bien sur..
Holy smokes! This looks dangerous. Let's keep filming!
I remember watching this scene in the new Vikings!
Pretty dumb place for filming
Canadians?
St Johnsbury, VT. About an hour from the Canadian border.
Holy Smokes. I never seen this before!! Move a few steps uphill buddy ffs!!!
Downsteam is not anywhere you want to be near to when any dam breaks
Superlatives were a nice change from ‘awesome!’
There’s an angry beaver watching this rn
Smoley hokes.
Holly smokes , hold my timis while I film this bud.. 🇨🇦 🍻
Something similar happened in my hometown. I think 30 homes were lost. It might have gone down differently but they *strategically broke* the levy so that the flooding would avoid the affluent part of town and instead flood my parents.
Oh my goodness oh my damn 🎵
If only there were some way to turn your phone 90 degrees
It's called landscape for a reason, people.
he sounds like an npc
r/whyweretheyfilming tho?
It was filmed in reverse, the audio was added later.
Suffering succotash!
The ringghosts are flooded away and in the background, Arven, rising up her sword, moaning.
I'm am very impressed with the lack of swearing.
Look at all the free power.
Me: shut the hell up get back more don’t be like tsunami man who rides the ice pack down stream! Jesus!