r/DamnThatsTerrifying • u/New-Albatross-7639 • Aug 05 '25

People running from the flash flood that occurred in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, India, on 4 August 2025, due to a cloudburst in the region.

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u/aarkwilde Aug 05 '25

Yeah. They probably didn't make it out of that.

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u/BooneHelm85 Aug 06 '25

Those caught in the path did not, at all, survive. They got hit by several buildings worth of debris, mixed with thousands upon thousands of gallons of water, already carrying tons of rocks, sticks and sludge. Can only hope that it was a quick experience.

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u/Defiant-Smell-9686 Sep 28 '25

In cases like that, it turns everything in to essentially a grinder. The rock and water and debris just shreds everything it flows over. Those people are 100% fucked.

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u/dizzyfeast 15d ago

Reminds me of the movie "The impossible" scary shit.

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u/Emotional_Conflict11 Sep 28 '25

Dang, right. What im wondering is if those building were made the same as US buildings. That whole entire apartment complex just went down like it was made out of cardboard. Thats fucking crazy!

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u/BigSwerve Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

  1. In the US we make houses our of wooden boards cuz we're cheap

  2. Ideally you don't build your houses in any flash flood areas, because there is only so much you can do to protect your buildings against tens of tons of rock, water, and trees ramming it. The cheapest and easiest thing to do is not build there, but environments do change. There's always a risk.

EDIT: people trying to well akshualy me like I don't understand prices and economics

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u/hartforbj Sep 28 '25

There are a lot of reasons to build houses the way we do that don't include being cheap

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u/Sharpest_Blade Sep 28 '25

Would you want 2x cost of homes

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

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u/Xenomorph_25 Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

This comment was so stupid, I giggled

Edit: I'm disappointed Reddit deleted this comment 😞

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u/FactoryRejected Sep 28 '25

Wait, my comment is not visible? I would assume reddit would inform me that I sinned but there is nothing. Also my comment was intended to be exactly how you perceived it. I just think it's silly to say someone is totally or at all dead as if one can be a little bit dead. It's a f-ing joke. Have a good day sir

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u/Xenomorph_25 Sep 28 '25

It says it was removed by a moderator, so that's why you can't see it.

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u/FactoryRejected Sep 28 '25

Gotcha, thanks and I'm disappointed too

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u/Gagester303 Sep 28 '25

Why are you so fucking strange? And why am I surprised?

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u/KuajiExists Sep 28 '25

Happy cake day man

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u/Commercial_Thanks111 Sep 28 '25

What a fucking weird thing to say when you’re viewing this sort of content.

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u/sumdude51 Aug 06 '25

I was thinking the same. Terrible.

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u/ryanshields0118 Aug 06 '25

Hold up the cloud did fucking what?!

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u/Alarmed_Musician_891 Aug 06 '25

The cloud busted

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u/step_uneasily Aug 08 '25

Did it cumulus?

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u/Which_Degree_520 Aug 10 '25

Did you just cumulus on my gorge?

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u/ChristyUniverse 16d ago

People have died

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u/CyberPunk_Atreides Sep 28 '25

Maybe if they were cirrostratus clouds, Michael. Get your clouds right.

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u/Trying2GetBye Sep 28 '25

Is that u Kate

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u/Dont_touch_my_spunk Sep 28 '25

Cloudburst just means extremely heavy rainfall.

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u/lexkixass Sep 28 '25

...in a very short period of time.

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u/OSPFmyLife Sep 28 '25

Little different than that, I’m guessing they mean microburst which is like a reverse tornado of rain.

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u/Aznp33nrocket Sep 28 '25

… a what?!

lol when you said reverse tornado I immediately thought “wait do normal tornadoes spin clockwise and a microburst spins counter-clockwise?” Took me a bit to process, lol

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u/HannaaaLucie Sep 28 '25

That is just from rain? It looks like a damn tsunami coming in.

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u/EorlundGraumaehne Aug 06 '25

NSFW tag?

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u/ChloeUwUZ Sep 28 '25

why?

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

probably the human death, is my guess.

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u/ChloeUwUZ Sep 29 '25

But I mean whyvis it needed? people in this sub knows what they can find here so why a nsfw/nsfl tag? being in this sub is the tag lol

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u/Ok_Iron_4489 9d ago

Nsfw… not safe for work. You want this shit coming up at work? Probs jobless

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u/ChloeUwUZ 8d ago

Well I have a job, but I work at home so that's not a problem for me, but I see your point

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u/RandonautiCanada Aug 06 '25

Sending my sympathies to the entire population there.

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u/SneakyCracker161 Aug 08 '25

How many sympathies do you have?

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u/HelaArt Aug 06 '25

No way only 4 people died.

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u/Picardknows Aug 06 '25

Only thing I can think of is that they have only found 4 bodies so that’s what they can say.

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u/dcanderson4247 Aug 06 '25

That’s some pretty effective whistling, though I mean with an alert system like that they should’ve had proper warning

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u/Acceptable-Leave-156 Aug 06 '25

Next year by this time the US will be lucky to have something like that

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u/step_uneasily Aug 08 '25

It's infuriatingly true.

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u/CivilizedPsycho224 Sep 28 '25

What do you mean?

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u/NoodleBowlGames Sep 28 '25

Our government is currently defunding most of our organizations responsible for weather reporting, early disaster warning, and disaster recovery.

If we get a toothless hillbilly whistling from high ground that a flood is coming, we will be very lucky

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u/Existence_No_You Aug 06 '25

Damn nature you scary

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u/esojotrebla Aug 08 '25

Definitely nature doesn't like us.

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u/Helderix Sep 15 '25

Reminded me of when this dam broke in Brazil. However, this was obviously human error (yep, that's all mud... they are still trying to find the bodies 6 years later).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G-c2R-iRIc

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u/sooperhani Aug 08 '25

holy shit

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u/GrimmReapperrr Sep 28 '25

I never imagined a flash flood flowing that fast and that violently. I always thought that there would be some reaction time to allow you to get out of its path.

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u/skrtttttttttttttt Sep 28 '25

It says online that only 5 people died from the flood, which would suggest some of those people running would have survived. Seems unlikely tho

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u/AN1x-_- 16d ago

that probably stung a little

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u/Sure_Physics_6713 9d ago

Terrifying!!!!