Public sentiment is profoundly negative, encompassing sadness, frustration towards governmental inaction, and anger over harmful construction practices contributing to the floods. Commenters emphasize a disregard for environmental considerations and demand a shift in policy to prevent future disasters.

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Looking at the shape of the riverbed this is not the first time it happened.

Decent-Product

I didn't know what a cloudburst was until I read it here. "An enormous amount of precipitation in a short period of time."  How big of a rain catchment area would something like this represent?  The amount of sudden water is insane.

UggaBugga11

jesus christ that‘s one of the craziest videos i‘ve ever seen. hope everyone in the village is safe.

ZealousidealLunch139

Ritsuka-san

The people are literally saying "Call them! Call them on the phone!"

brain-eating-worm

RedLemonSlice

raulshawn

This looks to be a debris flow, not a simple flood. Must have been some sort of significant slope failure further up the valley. Often caused by glacier outburst floods or large sérac collapse, but an abnormal rainfall event could do it I suppose.

SkiingisFreeing

All the  best to the people there.  
It's one of those international, intercultural, profoundly human dumbfuckeries that people see a flat piece of land on the outside of a rivers curve. A river with a very deep bed mind you, and think to themselves "This is a great place to build things, surely nothing bad will happen and my house won't be pressure washed off the hillside in a couple of years."  
Absolutely no shade on the villagers or India in general, I know several places in germany where settlements where build on obvious floodplanes next to rivers known to flood every 3-5 years.

JaschaE

Rule #1 : don't build your house close to the banks of a river at the bottom of a hill.

Axe_Care_By_Eugene

Camera man missed that one big building on the right get demolished

Aos77s

Agatio25

Holy crap. The entire outside of the bend of the river has been stripped. There were dozens of buildings there.

thefooleryoftom

Why is it always the worst fucking camera man of all time?

benjaminz100

Wow, very scary.  However "buries entire village" is not accurate.  It definitely did catastrophic damage to the one side of the village on the river bank.

tk427aj

Holy shit, Film horizontally and you won’t have to move the camera around so much.

Flash floods are terrifying, I hope that white suv near the start was the last living thing in that town.

Stouff-Pappa

Most frightening thing Ive seen. The speed at the start.

BigParticular3507

slippycaff

This looks like a clouburst and some sort of a landslide upriver combined.

kkania

Holy shit. That was like Roland Emmerich disaster movie type visuals.

the-tru-albertan

Freefight

Snatchbuckler

Hmm that doesn't look too b... HOLY SHIT!

farmyohoho

I have always been very weary of the layout of mountain villages in Asia and Europe. It is very picturesque, but I always felt a bit uneasy, because of stuff like this.

pslayer757

How scary. That looks similar to what happens in the slot canyons when it rains miles away.

Wtj182

I don't want to detract from the situation.  But this is posted in the sub Catastrophic Failure.    Isn't this a natural catastrophe?

Shot-Election8217

You know what? I wouldn't be building my house on that side of the mudflow channel...

VAArtemchuk

Before creating headlines one should check the meaning of ENTIRE

MRicho

"you see that flat land there in the mountains, next to the river?"

"you mean the flood plane of that river?"

"sure, whatever. Looks perfect for a quaint town?“

MyrKnof

This is what essentially happened in the middle of the night over July 4th weekend in central Texas.

Over 130 people dead, but horrifically, 27 young girls and a counselor washed away while sleeping at Camp Mystic.

Macho_Mans_Ghost

Vreas

Lungomono

Intothewasteland

Montecito, CA experienced a mudslide in 2018 from extreme rain and hills scarred by forest fires. The mudslide killed 23. It happened in the middle of the night so there isn't much video of the event but aspects sound similar. The slide came down one of the mountain ravines that is above the town.

In CA they issue evacuation orders when events like this are possible in the forecast. They almost never happen but when they do are catastrophic. It's very hard to evacuate regions like this one for the chance of a weather event. 

Horrible tragedy.

 https://youtu.be/2cgkcFsLEho?si=MRf8jGW7JzchGPt1

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Dave37

I’ve always figured if you can see a natural disaster like this with your own eyes, you are too close and need to be getting further away.

RogerRavvit88

If you've ever wondered what the Johnstown flood looked like.

ClarenceBoddickerr77

It's all about the side of the river you live.

DoftheG

We're lucky someone captured this...not so lucky that person did not know how to pan.  I need some Scopolamine

99zzyzx99

Holy shit. Those poor people didn’t stand a chance.

BalzacTheGreat

You can totally hear the whistling from the guys in the other video posted.

Shmeatmeintheback

bustyouup4free

Looks like such a beautiful town to village as well. But Frick that was wild.

Personal_Ad2455

Surprised to see how many people have never heard the word cloudburst. I'm in my 60s and remember that word from my childhood.

Crohn85

Umm... I still see some of the entire village. Just saying.

Miserable-Garlic-532

nectos

"Buries entire village" would mean that the entire village was buried. This video is impressive enough without you adding a click baity caption to it that's a blatant lie.

Cpt_kaleidoscope

Sevenoria

I can see some people running on the street on the right side, praying they found something solid to hide behind, seems hard to outrun the entire village in 10-20 seconds.

Horrific, I hope 0 casualties but my heart sinks and expects 50+ if evacuation alert system was not there.

ServeTheRealm

Oregonislame

Entire village? More like a small part of it. Disastrous yes, horrible tragedy yes, entire village no.

S_t_r_e_t_c_h_8_4

LukeOrtega

earthcomedy

Interesting choice to put a village there

sloopSD

Who thought it was a good idea to put a town there?

Domguyps5

Buries entire village? Hardly.

Also, r/killthecameraman

laserfazer

DryCryCrystal

is that big gray mass right at the beginning of the video, the massive cloudburst? Ts looks like a waterfall towards the bottom

TheAlmightyBuddha

I’d hazard a guess this isn’t just cloudburst. Sure that creates loads of rain, but not like this, this looks more like something above was washed away or not structurally sound as the village is already evacuated so they knew it was coming which is impossible with cloud bursts

kj_gamer2614

I don't see any movement. Was the village evacuated?

Bart2800

I’ve got river front property in Uttarkashi.

Vulture923

Hate to criticize the cameraman due to the crazy landslide happening in front of him, but he missed all the action. That monster is the biggest damn landslide I ever saw. It took out half of the town just off camera.

DonkeyDriver40

Hope non-believers in global warming are starting to see the patterns. Things are gonna get scary. The world has seen it before, the Internet hasn’t.

DocAuch22

Does anyone else ever feel guilty for up voting videos like this? Seems wrong.

st8ovmnd

How is this a catastrophic failure. This is just a natural disaster.

WhatIsACatch

Well it cleaned all the garbage next to the river. 

For a day or 2 at least.

SackOfCats

“She’ll be coming around the mountain when she comes. She’ll be coming around the mountain when she comes.”

strogginoff

They did not have time to evacuate in time so it’s expected that multiple people have died

Sc_e1

Fogona82

note to self, place home on near bend of river, not the reverse bank.

Pappa_Crim

Sad_Research_2584

Sea-Weakness3493

Katoolsie

loppedoff33

That is absolutely surreal and tragic.  I hope people were able to escape!

bws7037

After watching the video, it honestly just seems terrifying and devastating to me.

wakhfi3940

those trees really saved some down the line

HearingJust284

Dangerous_Army_8896

Substantial-Taro-891

This is heartbreaking. Prayers for Uttarkashi and everyone affected by the floods.

Ok_Truth9444

I really thought this was ai when i saw it on insta.

Ember_Roots

Akhil_Parack

xo_sandhu_xo

There is still time to wake up and stop global warming, preserving natural reserves.

Arohaa_net

Zyumido

alphazero07

abrar_101

Glass-Librarian4524

deathvit

We are learning: never buy a house on the outside of a river bend

Low-Possibility-7060

Hope Everyone is safe. BUT. The Camera-person kinda choked.

BowieXL7

10 to 12 people feared trapped under debris. Just happened so no clear indication of casualties( hopefully none). 


https://www.google.com/amp/s/timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/uttarakhand-cloudburst-flash-floods-hit-uttarkashi-several-villagers-washed-away/amp_articleshow/123115132.cms

insanemaelstrom

A cloudburst is a sudden, very intense downpour of rain that occurs over a small area in a short period of time, often leading to flash floods and severe local damage.

Lelouch25

Looks terrible for the people living there. 

That said, it's a poor title. It's far from the "entire" village.

UnfortunatelySimple

That's terrifying.  I hope they were able to evacuate beforehand.

Lurchie_

can some one explain why the water doesn’t just rapidly rise? But instead just all comes bursting like this? Did some kind of dam fail? I don’t get it!

supotech

Historical_Sherbet54

The first tragedy was the landslide, the second was the camera skills

HuckleberrySpin

At 27 seconds to the left you see a white car getting the hell out of dodge. So maybe some people had some warning and were able to escape even without an evacuation.

Sad-Beautiful420

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Recent flash floods in Dharali village, Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand caused widespread destruction, with satellite images revealing significant sediment deposits and altered landscapes. Rescue operations have rescued 816 individuals so far.

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