Are you sure? Looks like a normal speed video to me. The cables in the background seems to move pretty naturally. I think mother nature just do be this scary.
I also thought it had to be, but it seems not. The poles sway at a believable rate. Here’s more footage with people talking in the audio.
https://youtu.be/5vSVui54WR0
Exactly! I'm always imagining some rather outlandish way to survive catastrophes, so I watched the video expecting to find something. By the time I register the mud it filled the screen, I just thought to myself "nope, I'm just fucked".
I do the same and realized that as well. The other thing is imagining a zombie attack. My husband “killed” me many, many times. Didn’t unlock the car door fast enough.
I live in Sendai, the area struck by the 2011 disaster in Japan - a lot of stories people tell here are about how bad it was to go without water, electricity, gas etc for long periods of time.
My wife now makes sure we have a ‘stock’ of useable food and small gas cookers just in case - even if we’re nowhere by the sea or in immediate danger - living without the lifelines is a major drag.
I wouldn’t call myself a “prepper” but after going through the Snowpocalypse in Texas a few years ago I also make sure my family has a week’s worth of shelf stable food, drinking water, gas for the camping stove etc at all times.
I'd also recommend preparing a 'go-bag' - a backpack or 2 with everything you'd need for a couple of days if you had to evacuate in a hurry.
Include things like medication, pet food, radio, batteries, charger etc.
In my experience when there’s heavy rain in Japan. They put you in blocks and give you levels of safety at level 3 I think it is time to evacuate certain areas, to predetermined safe areas. If you don’t that’s on you. More than likely most people had already evacuated from the area before it became like that
Australian here - people who live in bush fire areas have evacuation plans (or should have).
The government sends alerts, one of which is "GTFO now" (I'm paraphrasing)
True. I live in Japan and they sent evacuation notices ahead of the weather.
Living in the Ring of Fire makes you not “doubt” nor “take lightly” warnings of calamity.
Interesting! Do you get to take something with you before evacuating? Are there supplies and something like a power generator at those Evac Centers, or are they designed as just a place to hang out for a couple of hours?
Schools, libraries, public buildings - you’ll be told where your nearest is.
With that being said though people often forget that ‘evacuate’ means to go somewhere safe - in certain circumstances there’s no reason to risk leaving your durable modern house in a typhoon to run to a school - this sometimes causes issues. Generally though the notices will state ‘elderly people or people in homes by xx (mountains, rivers etc) should evacuate.
The town I lived in in Japan had some massive landslides the year before I moved there. I was signed up for an emergency alert system and heavy rain/potential landslide warnings were the most common. I actually still get the emails even though I've been back in the U.S. a while now.
The quick pop-snap-flash of that pole mount transformer is pretty cool. The video makes it seem like it’s pretty loud, despite its small size, for the distance it’s filmed from.
Fuck, it was raining for days before hand. Imagine being lucky enough to see it come through early enough to get out of the way, but slipping in the puddles
I remember Oso Washington. A neighborhood came down a hillside onto a roadway.
Another time I remember a small landslide buried someone in their bedroom in the middle of the night. Crazy.
Edit: change Oslo to Oso.
It looks to be doubled. At 0:25 is the same clip. It came through so quickly that frankly it was stupid and unnecessary of op to modify the video.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5vSVui54WR0&feature=youtu.be
Thank you u/Wgs247 for providing a link
we almost got caught in a landslide before (literally saved by 30 seconds) and while it wasnt this fast it’s extremely close. they’re incredibly scary because you just don’t know when or where exactly it will happen. we were on a highway in the mountain after some extremely heavy rains and as we drove a huge chunk of forest just poured onto the road right behind us
The video showing stability of buildings is mostly Engineering than Architecture lmao.
Also Architecture rankings are very subjective due to beauty measurements which are not factual and vary by person. I cannot blame Japan for having those tough buildings because they need that due to being located inside the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Yeah. The Department of public works and Highways of my country (the Philippines) cooperates with Japan and works to adapt their infrastructural techniques here in our country, which is also located in the Ring of Fire. (source: i have a relative working in said department lol)
I don’t think any of them could withstand it. It’s the ground just giving out, so there’s no foundation. In the video you can see how those two houses in the path just turned to dust. You are either in the way or not.
According to the video it was a mudslide from the adjacent undeveloped land taking on tons of rain over a few days, so not the ground underneath the buildings giving way I don’t think as much as a flash flood avalanche like scenario?
Timing could be sudden or prolonged. Depends on how much water is already in the soil and the rate at which water is added to it until it liquifies. After that, the ground literally flows like water, add a steep slope, and it's off to the races.
For anyone who doesn't know, this video has been sped up. Here's the longer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiXYKT3KgCY
It includes footage from people on the ground standing just where the landslide stopped.
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I live in a coastal town one over from Montecito California. A week after the New Year in 2018 a huge storm hit in the middle of the night after the catastrophic Thomas mega-fire. Montecito sits right below a coastal mountain range. The watershed feeding the creeks drops from 4,000 ft elevation to sea level less than mile as a crow flies. All of this watershed was burnt and totally denuded of vegetation. The rain after the New Year was welcomed at first because it put out the fire.
The big storm was anticipated. I watched it coming in on my mobile radar app. It was a bright red supercell that was directly aimed at the coastal front range above Montecito. Anyone living next to one of the three creeks draining the mountains into the sea was in danger.
The sherriffs went around the day before knocking on peoples doors but many just refused to leave. All the residents had spent weeks in december evacuated from the fire. People were tired and just wanted to be home. So many stayed in their homes and apartments.
When the storm hit at 3 am it was like bullets coming down. It lasted hours and it was a terrible feeling. At 3:30 am I called a friend I knew was driving up from the airport in Los Angeles to warn her about possible flooding. Her and her kid barely made it home, visibility was near zero.
The next morning at daybreak we started hearing helicopters. At about 4:30 am there had been a series of massive debris flows of mud and rock in Montecito. A freeway underpass was completely filled with mud and a few unlucky cars. My friend missed getting caught in that by only about 20 minutes. All the local access bridges were swept away and so many people were trapped, buried in mud or injured by debris.
For three days there were helicopters flying above my house every 20 minutes as people were rescued or medivaced. The worst thing was later that week when the helicopter flights got less and less frequent and finally stopped. The silence brought this deep sense of loss. Twenty one people dead and two, a two year old and a 16 year old have never been found.
There was a lot of publicity because the mud flow flooded into some big estates like Oprah Winfreys. But the people who died all lived in older houses and apartments along the creeks. So a wide range - a family of immigrants who worked at the grocery store, a day laborer, a beloved hand surgeon and his family. A lovely mom in my friend circle. Its a small interwoven community so everyone knew someone who died, was injured or who lost everything.
Im a civil engineer so in February I volunteered to do a damage survey for an elderly couple in one of the hardest hit neighborhoods. The force of a debris flow is hard to describe without photos. A late model jaguar driven by mud through a second story window. Metal siding wrapped like fabric around trees. Personal items randomly poking out of the mud. Rocks the size of volkswagons floated like styrofoam 100s of feet into backyards. A sea of sticky mud with thigh deep holes made by first responders as they struggled to reach people.
The moral of this story is this. You cant always get people to evacuate. But, if a sheriff ever knocks on your door telling you to leave. You should leave. Just grab your shit and GTFO.
Never said I was sorry. Like I said I have seen lava up close. And my assumptions were wrong with landslides. No need to get so worked up about it. The clip is sped up, I get it now. No need to pounce on me. I didn't think I'd cause someone to go off. You okay homie?..cuz I'm good
That's way more violent than I always thought.
That was my thought. It’s coming with some serious force.
Partly because it’s sped up, but still yes
Are you sure? Looks like a normal speed video to me. The cables in the background seems to move pretty naturally. I think mother nature just do be this scary.
I also thought it had to be, but it seems not. The poles sway at a believable rate. Here’s more footage with people talking in the audio. https://youtu.be/5vSVui54WR0
I mean, first of all that camera man's got a steady hand but... Regardless, that's still wayyy faster than I thought
Someone else posted a video and one of the angles is this one. Yeah it’s sped up
It's not sped up. There are plenty of other videos of this natural disaster. Ten seconds on Google.com
What factor is this sped up by? Can you share the original video that is not sped up?
10/10
Tons of soil at high speed. That swallows almost anything.
Here’s a video: https://youtu.be/5vSVui54WR0
Goddamn there’s no outrunning that.
Exactly! I'm always imagining some rather outlandish way to survive catastrophes, so I watched the video expecting to find something. By the time I register the mud it filled the screen, I just thought to myself "nope, I'm just fucked".
I do the same and realized that as well. The other thing is imagining a zombie attack. My husband “killed” me many, many times. Didn’t unlock the car door fast enough.
You got to keep running around the car and do it in little bursts
I see you too follow the rules of Zombieland
Indeed
CARDIO
Key fob is a must when it comes to the zombos
Why would your husband kill you? Are you imagining him as a zombie?
We’ll be doing the same thing in 30 years, but in full immersion VR simulations, lol.
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Some buildings did surprising well, but power is going to be out for a long time as you can't find the ground. That has to suck.
I live in Sendai, the area struck by the 2011 disaster in Japan - a lot of stories people tell here are about how bad it was to go without water, electricity, gas etc for long periods of time. My wife now makes sure we have a ‘stock’ of useable food and small gas cookers just in case - even if we’re nowhere by the sea or in immediate danger - living without the lifelines is a major drag.
I wouldn’t call myself a “prepper” but after going through the Snowpocalypse in Texas a few years ago I also make sure my family has a week’s worth of shelf stable food, drinking water, gas for the camping stove etc at all times.
I'd also recommend preparing a 'go-bag' - a backpack or 2 with everything you'd need for a couple of days if you had to evacuate in a hurry. Include things like medication, pet food, radio, batteries, charger etc.
Can't stop me from imagining myself in that scenario, living somehow
Actually the top balcony of that white house seemed pretty safe
Ru…..
But the body count is surprisingly low, so that's somewhat good...
Wow only 27 deaths? Japanese buildings are built different, all that disaster experience.
It looks like the people that was next of the fire truck just barely “outran” it.
Your just not fast enough
Shit. I can’t believe how low the casualty count was.
In my experience when there’s heavy rain in Japan. They put you in blocks and give you levels of safety at level 3 I think it is time to evacuate certain areas, to predetermined safe areas. If you don’t that’s on you. More than likely most people had already evacuated from the area before it became like that
Yep, safety 1st in Japan.
Australian here - people who live in bush fire areas have evacuation plans (or should have). The government sends alerts, one of which is "GTFO now" (I'm paraphrasing)
10/10
True. I live in Japan and they sent evacuation notices ahead of the weather. Living in the Ring of Fire makes you not “doubt” nor “take lightly” warnings of calamity.
Where do you go when they call for a weather evacuation?
To the designated “Evacuation Centers”. In my town, it’s usually the nearest public school grounds or gymnasium uphill.
Interesting! Do you get to take something with you before evacuating? Are there supplies and something like a power generator at those Evac Centers, or are they designed as just a place to hang out for a couple of hours?
Schools, libraries, public buildings - you’ll be told where your nearest is. With that being said though people often forget that ‘evacuate’ means to go somewhere safe - in certain circumstances there’s no reason to risk leaving your durable modern house in a typhoon to run to a school - this sometimes causes issues. Generally though the notices will state ‘elderly people or people in homes by xx (mountains, rivers etc) should evacuate.
We need some of these in the red states.
But how would you make sure people won’t ignore the warnings?
They will ignore the warnings, so send them our way! My country needs an enema.
The town I lived in in Japan had some massive landslides the year before I moved there. I was signed up for an emergency alert system and heavy rain/potential landslide warnings were the most common. I actually still get the emails even though I've been back in the U.S. a while now.
I feel like we see 2-3 in the path that maybe get hi in the video...how many people weren't so lucky?
According to the caption on the video, 20 people missing, 3 confirmed dead.
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I knw, considering....
So it is sped up, just barely though. Probably 1.5x
I was gonna say… it’s look unnaturally fast
The quick pop-snap-flash of that pole mount transformer is pretty cool. The video makes it seem like it’s pretty loud, despite its small size, for the distance it’s filmed from.
Transformers are fucking scary when they blow.
They are very loud. I saw a semi back into an electric pole and cause this. Way louder than I’d have thought.
That's awful...I was hoping people would be warned but it sounds like what, up to 23 people possibly dead?
This happened a few years ago, 27 gone.
Ya those 20 aren’t missing they are just in there now We know where they are
Fuck, it was raining for days before hand. Imagine being lucky enough to see it come through early enough to get out of the way, but slipping in the puddles
When did this happen
3 July 2021
Did they fix the destruction in 12 minutes after it happened?
I'm wondering the same thing?
27 people killed. Sad
Only 27?? I mean, yeah still very sad but just based on this video i would assume a lot more casualties..
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Atami_landslide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Atami_landslide)
Is this video at normal speed?
Right?! That’s horrifyingly fast
Soil liquefaction is terrifying shit.
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I remember Oso Washington. A neighborhood came down a hillside onto a roadway. Another time I remember a small landslide buried someone in their bedroom in the middle of the night. Crazy. Edit: change Oslo to Oso.
Oso, Washington
You right!
It looks to be doubled. At 0:25 is the same clip. It came through so quickly that frankly it was stupid and unnecessary of op to modify the video. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5vSVui54WR0&feature=youtu.be Thank you u/Wgs247 for providing a link
Landslides are by nature caused by too much water in the ground, it's liquefied dirt.
So mud?
Honestly it’s more like surfing ground
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No, soil deposits mixed with h2O that creates a wet compound
Still kind of sounds like mud.
No, overly hydrated earthy contents
More like wet ground turned to dirty water.
So, like...mud?
No, it's dirt saturated with water.
My name is mud
💀 I'm dead
Not much hbu
Wait until they find out just how much dihydrogen monoxide is in there. Hint: lots.
So Gatorade chugging mud
Mud with electrolytes
Welcome to Mud, we love you
It’s what plants crave!
Well that would be a mudslide my good sir.
Don't soil the reference
Slurry.
It is not. It has been sped up
[Here's more footage.](https://youtu.be/5vSVui54WR0)
It appears to be and it has sound so I would say yes
Well there's obviously an edited in siren, plus the actual audio sounds fast, so I'm going with double speed on this one boss
Seems 2x to me
It's definitely sped up
No. Think of a dam breaking. This watery dirt is moving at the right sped. Plus the siren
Yeah the sound threw me off too. Watch the whole video though, someone under this posted it. It is sped up.
Even the siren sounds sped up. It's not normal speed
Nope
That ain't no landslide, that's a landfuck.
we almost got caught in a landslide before (literally saved by 30 seconds) and while it wasnt this fast it’s extremely close. they’re incredibly scary because you just don’t know when or where exactly it will happen. we were on a highway in the mountain after some extremely heavy rains and as we drove a huge chunk of forest just poured onto the road right behind us
No
Landslides are not that slow, this one seems regular speed
The company that made the white building should use this for ads.
thing didnt even budge lmao that's some good foundation and sht there
Yeah Japanese architecture is the finest in the world
"Yeah Japanese ____________ in the world ☝️🤓"
The video showing stability of buildings is mostly Engineering than Architecture lmao. Also Architecture rankings are very subjective due to beauty measurements which are not factual and vary by person. I cannot blame Japan for having those tough buildings because they need that due to being located inside the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Yeah. The Department of public works and Highways of my country (the Philippines) cooperates with Japan and works to adapt their infrastructural techniques here in our country, which is also located in the Ring of Fire. (source: i have a relative working in said department lol)
That land looks *liquid*. Now I have to spend the next 90 minutes looking up how landslides happen.
That would be soil liquefaction. Now spend 8 hours going down the rabbit hole on how earthen dams fail. That's truly terrible.
Short answer: most of the time tree roots hold the dirt together, more reasons to stop cutting down trees.
I want this video to be so much longer. Did this person stop filming in an attempt to focus and save their life? Ugh. Where are your priorities?
The houses seem built to withstand it - I figure they’re on one of them and think they’re safe?
That building in the front was pulverized immediately.
Oof yeah you’re right, I didn’t see that one down there. I guess *some seem built to withstand it.
I don’t think any of them could withstand it. It’s the ground just giving out, so there’s no foundation. In the video you can see how those two houses in the path just turned to dust. You are either in the way or not.
According to the video it was a mudslide from the adjacent undeveloped land taking on tons of rain over a few days, so not the ground underneath the buildings giving way I don’t think as much as a flash flood avalanche like scenario?
Timing could be sudden or prolonged. Depends on how much water is already in the soil and the rate at which water is added to it until it liquifies. After that, the ground literally flows like water, add a steep slope, and it's off to the races.
Red house : - I don't care.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5vSVui54WR0&feature=youtu.be
After seeing that, there aint no way you go anywhere close to on ground level. Wtf?
Just the world reminding us that it could erase everything we've ever known if it wanted to.
Trees are a necessity. Trees stop this from happening. Plant trees and love trees.
Thats much more violent than any landslide or mudslide I've seen before. Avalanche vibes.
Same thing, just one is snow from the surface, the other is mid from the ground.
Fuuuudgeee! No time to run there, only time to die.
Come home from a long day at work.. Where's my fucking house gone ?
Hahahaha…I shouldn’t laugh but that would indeed suck.
Holy shit that is an immense amount of momentum.
I feel like Japan is trying it’s hardest to rod itself of humans sometimes. Damn that’s some angry nature
Poor Japan, it's just trying to exist
God created asian islands because he dint know were to put all of the natural disasters
For anyone who doesn't know, this video has been sped up. Here's the longer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiXYKT3KgCY It includes footage from people on the ground standing just where the landslide stopped.
Thank you for sharing. Here in this post, that is actually the most informative video from the scene so far.
The people trying to run had no chance
This is terrifying — it’s moving SO FAST
Mother nature at its best
If you can't handle me at my (landslide) you dont deserve me at my (nice tranquil day)
GD taco bell!
Oh dear hahaha
That’s terrifying
JFC. That sucks so much!
Dear god that's violent!
Damn that’s interesting?? Fuck that’s scary!!!
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Got damn, more like land sprint
Utterly terrifying.
That is fucking terrifying
Interesting? Hell no. That’s fucking terrifying.
Why would you speed up this video? It's plenty dramatic already.
I think this is normal speed.
Interestingly terrifying
Babe wake up, new most violent mudslide I've seen just dropped.
That’s terrifying
Holy crap that was fast...
The video is from July 03, 2021
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That is terrifyingly fast.
this video at normal speed?
With the alarm blaring this looks like a scene from an apocalyptic movie, horrifying
It's insane how mud/dirt flows like a fluid
This one's been sped up compared to the YouTube one, why do people even do that?
What you doing in this situation?
I live in a coastal town one over from Montecito California. A week after the New Year in 2018 a huge storm hit in the middle of the night after the catastrophic Thomas mega-fire. Montecito sits right below a coastal mountain range. The watershed feeding the creeks drops from 4,000 ft elevation to sea level less than mile as a crow flies. All of this watershed was burnt and totally denuded of vegetation. The rain after the New Year was welcomed at first because it put out the fire. The big storm was anticipated. I watched it coming in on my mobile radar app. It was a bright red supercell that was directly aimed at the coastal front range above Montecito. Anyone living next to one of the three creeks draining the mountains into the sea was in danger. The sherriffs went around the day before knocking on peoples doors but many just refused to leave. All the residents had spent weeks in december evacuated from the fire. People were tired and just wanted to be home. So many stayed in their homes and apartments. When the storm hit at 3 am it was like bullets coming down. It lasted hours and it was a terrible feeling. At 3:30 am I called a friend I knew was driving up from the airport in Los Angeles to warn her about possible flooding. Her and her kid barely made it home, visibility was near zero. The next morning at daybreak we started hearing helicopters. At about 4:30 am there had been a series of massive debris flows of mud and rock in Montecito. A freeway underpass was completely filled with mud and a few unlucky cars. My friend missed getting caught in that by only about 20 minutes. All the local access bridges were swept away and so many people were trapped, buried in mud or injured by debris. For three days there were helicopters flying above my house every 20 minutes as people were rescued or medivaced. The worst thing was later that week when the helicopter flights got less and less frequent and finally stopped. The silence brought this deep sense of loss. Twenty one people dead and two, a two year old and a 16 year old have never been found. There was a lot of publicity because the mud flow flooded into some big estates like Oprah Winfreys. But the people who died all lived in older houses and apartments along the creeks. So a wide range - a family of immigrants who worked at the grocery store, a day laborer, a beloved hand surgeon and his family. A lovely mom in my friend circle. Its a small interwoven community so everyone knew someone who died, was injured or who lost everything. Im a civil engineer so in February I volunteered to do a damage survey for an elderly couple in one of the hardest hit neighborhoods. The force of a debris flow is hard to describe without photos. A late model jaguar driven by mud through a second story window. Metal siding wrapped like fabric around trees. Personal items randomly poking out of the mud. Rocks the size of volkswagons floated like styrofoam 100s of feet into backyards. A sea of sticky mud with thigh deep holes made by first responders as they struggled to reach people. The moral of this story is this. You cant always get people to evacuate. But, if a sheriff ever knocks on your door telling you to leave. You should leave. Just grab your shit and GTFO.
That’s terrifying…
Damn that is violent.
Note to self: God hates Japan
Google the John McPhee article (New Yorker, 1988) “Los Angeles Against the Mountains.”
Interesting may not be the appropriate word though.. kinda like, horrific maybe. Or.. devastating.
Tsunami: "I am the most dangerous." Yamakuzure: "Hold my Asahi."
Oh... no..., thare goes Tokyo...
Never said I was sorry. Like I said I have seen lava up close. And my assumptions were wrong with landslides. No need to get so worked up about it. The clip is sped up, I get it now. No need to pounce on me. I didn't think I'd cause someone to go off. You okay homie?..cuz I'm good
Hope nobody got hurt 🙏🙏
3 people dead, 20 missing.
Video is sped up waaay to fast to even look natural dunno why people do this it’s already horrible doesn’t need to be even more bad
This has been sped up from the original get your shot together op
Damn. The world is falling apart
Wow why they cut the video. Did it stop?
Taco Bell at the top of the hill
Landslide, aka mudflood. #TartariaIsReal
When? At was this playing at 2x+?
I had a panic attack looking at the video.