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Deadly flash flood wipes away villages in Nepal, Tibet

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    updawg
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    The footage of this is some of the most horrifying stuff I've ever seen. Total destruction. Completely inescapable. If you were at the edge of the flooding, one moment you'd be standing there with...

    The footage of this is some of the most horrifying stuff I've ever seen. Total destruction. Completely inescapable. If you were at the edge of the flooding, one moment you'd be standing there with someone, and the next, they'd be gone forever. Possibly even dead before they know they've been swept away.

    It's worse than the footage I've seen of most (all?) major tsunamis, including 2004, although that was obviously far deadlier.

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    1. KapteinB
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      One of the pictures is described as "the moment a wall of mud hit the Nepal-China border", and I was thinking that was clearly an exaggeration, until I saw the video, and yes, that is absolutely a...

      One of the pictures is described as "the moment a wall of mud hit the Nepal-China border", and I was thinking that was clearly an exaggeration, until I saw the video, and yes, that is absolutely a wall of mud completely out of nowhere smashing everything to pieces. I've never seen anything like this before.

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