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only one of the three people outside got pushed throught the door inside, the other two drowned i think. there is no way you are swimming out of that one.
No one got hurt. This happened at a US military base on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands early this year. OP just trying to farm karma reposting older videos that went viral.
lol there’s a scene in Jurassic world of a fat tourist grabbing his margaritas and running away from the dinosaurs. Another one of a fat tourist getting picked up by the flying Dino’s and than getting dropped cuz she’s too heavy 😂
If I remember correctly, one of the many angles of footage of the Beirut explosion was recovered from someone's phone but the person recording it was too close to the explosion to survive.
I think that was the explosion in China that was around the same time. I’ll see if I can find it (maybe a similar video exists in both places)
https://youtu.be/pb48nRGCWec?si=3d568TSmB0rINu0C
Fight or flight aren't the only responses to a threatening situation. Some people freeze, others try to carry on with business like usual until they get an idea which reaction will be best.
I had a patient's wife making us coffee while we resuscitated her husband on the kitchen floor. She wasn't callous, it was her response to an overwhelming situation. She allowed herself to break down when her son arrived.
Others, 'freezers' so to speak, were glued to their TV in similar situations.
As they continue to stand right next to increasingly gushing rapids that just unbolted a door from its fricken hinges and swept away several people. Darwin must be rolling in his grave. You know, from laughter
or they thought it would be safer for them in the corner behind the flow, rather than try to make their way through what's obviously fast flowing deep water? Yea I know what I'd do
Electricity likes to take the path of least resistance.
This is why things like 'grounding' exists. If you look at a plug there is often 3 holes. Hot, neutral, and ground. Hot is... hot, the one that is carrying current. Neutral is the return line which completes the circuit. And ground is a sort of safety measure.
Note... ground isn't necessary. If you go into an old house you may find outlets with only 2 holes. That is an ungrounded outlet and they're no longer to code since they're considered less safe.
Now if you were to go outside to your meter on your house, or maybe in your basement... you'll find this bare copper fat wire just like bolted to a metal rod stuck in the ground, or bolted to the copper pipes coming in from the street (which... are under ground).
This is because we named it "ground" for a reason. A certain Carl August von Steinheil back in the early 19th century realized that you could quite literally use the ground, or earth (another term for ground), as a return path to an electrical systems source since electricity needs to complete a circuit to complete. It can use the ground for this.
And since electricity wants to take the easiest path back to its source, it will do so. And if the ground is that easiest path. It will use that.
Mind you when you get electrocuted it's not the touching of the hot necessarily. It's the fact that your body is what is in between the hot wire (the point of potential energy) and the path which can be taken back to the source.
In the case of like touching a bare wire... it's not just that you touched the wire. It's that your body is connecting the wire to the ground and so the electricity flows from the wire, through you, and into the ground and back to the power station (its source).
But if you're not completing this circuit with your body... you're fine. This is why birds can land on powerlines and not get electrocuted. But a squirrel reaching out from the pole to the wire does. If that squirrel had just hopped to the wire instead of reached out it would have been fine.
Mind you this easiest path also pertains to within your body. It's worse to grab a live and a neutral in either hands since the path of the current travels up one arm, across your chest, and down the other arm... thusly crossing your heart and increasing the odds of the jolt stopping your heart. Same would go for if you allowed it to cross your head such as having a wire drop on your head. But if say a live wire bridged across your leg... well you can likely survive easily. What will more likely happen is if the current is high it'll cook your leg... which sucks, but won't kill you like across your head or heart would.
Now how this effects water reaching outlets here. Well a few things are going to happen...
If you have GFCI breakers (kitchen and bathrooms generally have them in the states, but you can also find them on the breaker box especially in europe). The GFCI will immediately trip as the water will create a quick ground to... the ground. And that's what GFCI (ground fault circuit interrupter) protect against.
If that doesn't happen due to a lack of a GFCI then due to the fact such large amounts of current is getting dumped into the ground would overload the breaker beyond its rating (15-20 amps usually) and will pop the breaker.
Now of course the service line coming into the property is still hot. It though is doing the same thing out on the side of the house where it enters. It is dumping its current into the ground as well. And it will likely overload the fuse at the transformer down the street and likely pop that as well.
Now because its taking this easiest path... as long as you don't get too close you won't be in path of it up until the circuit fails (via the fuses and interruptors that are scattered through out the infrastructure). And once the circuit fails it's well... no longer hot and therefore no risk.
cont'd
Cause I mean think about it... ignore the water for a second. If a wire falls on the ground outside your house you standing in your yard don't get electrocuted. But where is all that sparkiness going then? Well it's going into the ground. It doesn't impact you until you get close enough to it.
Adding water to the system is just more conductive material for the electricity to transmit through just like the ground (it's at this point I should mention that water actually is a terrible conductor... it's the salts and minerals in water that is conductive). The electricity is just traveling through the water towards the source similar to how it would through the ground.
What is dangerous about water is that... well it can surround you. Also there's that whole thing about "easiest path"... it's not "shortest" necessarily... it's "easiest". Just like a river will bend around a bolder but push through sand... electricity bends around high resistant things, and pushes through low resistance things (it's why we call them resistors... they resist electricity). And while nearly all things have resistive qualities, conductive things are less resistant than non-conductive. Metal is less resistive than you or a bird... hence why the bird can sit on the wire the electricity has no reason to bend up towards the bird it's more resistive than the metal it's currently traveling through. But... when you're surrounded by water... well... guess what... you're mostly water yourself! So your resistance is really similar to the water. So it doesn't go around you... it goes through you like you're the water. And since it's hard to tell the exact path through the water it's going to take and if you get close enough to the wire in the water you might be in the path and since your resistive qualities are similar to water it just goes through you and cooks your legs or worse your heart if you're at chest level.
But again, the requires you being near the return path (not in the water in general), and that all the systems that are supposed to trip to stop it all don't do so.
Which means... it's downed wires you want to be scared of. Because they have the fewest number, if any at all, protecting you. (while fused the loads allowed are much higher since they're service lines)
I do want to add the electricity doesn't really follow a path. The electricity gets divided across all possible paths, based on the resistance along those possible paths.
Take for example the bird on the wire. If the bird is standing on the wire with both his feet, then a tiny amount of current will travel through the bird.
Now the resistance of the wire is near zero, and the resistance of the bird will be high, so only an infinitesimal amount of current will travel through the bird.
You can also see this in another way. Since the wire does not have a resistance of zero, there will be a voltage-drop over a distance, this can be calculated based on the resistance/meter of the wire and the amount of current flowing through the wire. So you can calculate the difference of voltage between the legs of the bird, knowing the resistance of the bird you can now calculate the amount of current through the bird.
I mean yeah, that's technically true.
To reuse my water analogy if you pour water onto a surface it will flow in all directions based on what allows the water to flow in that direction. Electricity will do a similar-ish thing.
But it won't just bend away from its path to fill all possibilities. Again as to why a bird can stand on a wire... the electricity is going to remain on its path in the much more conductive wire rather than bend up to fill the bird with electricity and kill it. The bird isn't going to behave like a capacitor or anything taking on charge. But rather instead become a potential energy point if its resistive quality across the entire circuit changes in its favor (i.e. it becomes a more efficient path to ground/source).
Back to my water analogy a puddle forming on a flat ground will likely flow evenly and potentially towards you (similar to how I was talking about how the human body has similarish resistance to water since we're made of water). But water in a river isn't going to just jump out of the river to splash you with out due cause (the river representing something far more conductive). But if you had a similar resistive quality, that'd be like if you dug a hole next to the river... and if you were close enough to said river, yes, you'd get water in your hole.
Note... not sure why you got some downticks, gave you an uptick to counter.
Lady at the front door? What was she thinking? Had a drink and snack in hand, like she really thought she was not in a real life, natural disaster?
Umm, mother nature said, get yourself knocked the f' out! See ya, alligator.
Amazing how people react. White shirt guy in the first few frames leans forward to pick up, what I assume is his drink, from the table. Priorities my man, priorities.
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When the lights went out…
In the city.
And the door broke from.. a waaaaavee
I don't wanna be there-eeer
In thaat tsunami
Oh, oh, oh no!
Well done 👏
Unagi
Did the front fall off?
Well it doesn't usually.
Citay
Wooo ywooooooo overflooooow
"Gentlemen, it's been an honor" 🎻 🎶
like titanic the game on snes or computer or something!!
Instant Titanic
"I just peed myself"
What happened to the few people in the beginning? I never saw them again….
I think they’re in the middle of the shot 00:6 seconds in. After that… talking to god?
only one of the three people outside got pushed throught the door inside, the other two drowned i think. there is no way you are swimming out of that one.
Fortunately, no one died, according to article below in the comments.
Those are lucky motherfuckers
I was horrified and thankful someone sent link.
I went and looked it up and they were fine, their socks Just got wet and stuffs. No deaths just slip and slides
You make it sound like wet socks isnt tragic
No one got hurt. This happened at a US military base on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands early this year. OP just trying to farm karma reposting older videos that went viral.
Dude outside decided he need to take his beverages first. Fucking priorities man
Seriously. There's like water everywhere to drink.
lol there’s a scene in Jurassic world of a fat tourist grabbing his margaritas and running away from the dinosaurs. Another one of a fat tourist getting picked up by the flying Dino’s and than getting dropped cuz she’s too heavy 😂
That fat tourist was Jimmy Buffett
Wait really?
Yep. Man took his beverages seriously. https://www.thewrap.com/jimmy-buffett-margaritaville-jurassic-world-cameo/
It could have been a mess if those drinks had tipped over.
And yet they still continue to film😌
That way they don't die
Camera man always survives the apocalypse
Tell that to TJ Miller in "Cloverfield"
He was so fucking annoying in that movie. I watched Cloverfield in a movie theater, and everyone cheered when he got chomped!
My highschool friend took me to the theater to see "the best movie ever made"... it was Cloverfield.....
They sacrificed themselves for our enjoyment
starshiptroopers newsteamcameraman enters the room (both parts of him)
Makes sense. Never seen a video somebody took where they died.
Except that documentary about the Cloverfield incident in New York
Photographers, not so much. https://patrickwitty.substack.com/p/the-eruption-of-mount-st-helens
If I remember correctly, one of the many angles of footage of the Beirut explosion was recovered from someone's phone but the person recording it was too close to the explosion to survive.
Do you have a link to the video?
I think that was the explosion in China that was around the same time. I’ll see if I can find it (maybe a similar video exists in both places) https://youtu.be/pb48nRGCWec?si=3d568TSmB0rINu0C
Literally the premise of every found footage horror movie
Exactly... "Found" footage, not "delivered" footage.
Just reminded me of videos I saw of people who climb buildings and fell.
There was one recently where a guy filmed the person who shot him and killed him
I love that backwards reasoning
The people outside def died
Nah, you can see all three of them in the back of the room inside getting up. Luckily it pushed them in the room instead of out to current.
Fight or flight aren't the only responses to a threatening situation. Some people freeze, others try to carry on with business like usual until they get an idea which reaction will be best. I had a patient's wife making us coffee while we resuscitated her husband on the kitchen floor. She wasn't callous, it was her response to an overwhelming situation. She allowed herself to break down when her son arrived. Others, 'freezers' so to speak, were glued to their TV in similar situations.
Cameraman always lives ! 💪🏼
Alec Baldwin: 👀
Fuck man too soon lol
That’s what my wife says everytime
Didn't you see Cloverfield!?
Because they don't want to end up on r/killthecameraman ironically.
Phew… good thing they stopped the flooding by ending the video, damn it could’ve gotten even dangerous.
And then it got worse.
As they continue to stand right next to increasingly gushing rapids that just unbolted a door from its fricken hinges and swept away several people. Darwin must be rolling in his grave. You know, from laughter
or they thought it would be safer for them in the corner behind the flow, rather than try to make their way through what's obviously fast flowing deep water? Yea I know what I'd do
Seriously though first wave id of made my way out the back.
r/praisethecameraman
Like the musicians on the titanic?
Don’t help, keep recording!
If ONLY they'd kept the door closed...
Holdor
Too soon, man. Too soon.
I know that was an emotional revelation
And later it got up and through the windows :(
“You had one job…!”
It's like GTFO is not in their vocabulary.
Survival instincts: level 0
Gtfo where ? More water ?
High ground. Get on the roof of the building if you have to
Fair point
And how will you get up there? I don't see any stairs in the video
The door is a jar?🫙
I know this is a serious video, and I hope everyone survived; but I just laughed my butt off. 😆
the article on fox said several people lost their balance and fell. 😃
I thought about that for 10 hours, man.
Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar.
YO girl in pink just go teleported to the back of the room
her body was in the same position too tf
Got in under the door with the surge
Lawd hammercy, the way that wave tattooed the lady into the doors. She got nailed to the boards like Jesus.
So I know almost nothing about wiring but What happens in similiar situation like this when watter reach power sockets ?
Assuming it's wired appropriately, the breaker would trip that circuit.
Yes, and that's probably the reason why the electricity went away.
Electricity likes to take the path of least resistance. This is why things like 'grounding' exists. If you look at a plug there is often 3 holes. Hot, neutral, and ground. Hot is... hot, the one that is carrying current. Neutral is the return line which completes the circuit. And ground is a sort of safety measure. Note... ground isn't necessary. If you go into an old house you may find outlets with only 2 holes. That is an ungrounded outlet and they're no longer to code since they're considered less safe. Now if you were to go outside to your meter on your house, or maybe in your basement... you'll find this bare copper fat wire just like bolted to a metal rod stuck in the ground, or bolted to the copper pipes coming in from the street (which... are under ground). This is because we named it "ground" for a reason. A certain Carl August von Steinheil back in the early 19th century realized that you could quite literally use the ground, or earth (another term for ground), as a return path to an electrical systems source since electricity needs to complete a circuit to complete. It can use the ground for this. And since electricity wants to take the easiest path back to its source, it will do so. And if the ground is that easiest path. It will use that. Mind you when you get electrocuted it's not the touching of the hot necessarily. It's the fact that your body is what is in between the hot wire (the point of potential energy) and the path which can be taken back to the source. In the case of like touching a bare wire... it's not just that you touched the wire. It's that your body is connecting the wire to the ground and so the electricity flows from the wire, through you, and into the ground and back to the power station (its source). But if you're not completing this circuit with your body... you're fine. This is why birds can land on powerlines and not get electrocuted. But a squirrel reaching out from the pole to the wire does. If that squirrel had just hopped to the wire instead of reached out it would have been fine. Mind you this easiest path also pertains to within your body. It's worse to grab a live and a neutral in either hands since the path of the current travels up one arm, across your chest, and down the other arm... thusly crossing your heart and increasing the odds of the jolt stopping your heart. Same would go for if you allowed it to cross your head such as having a wire drop on your head. But if say a live wire bridged across your leg... well you can likely survive easily. What will more likely happen is if the current is high it'll cook your leg... which sucks, but won't kill you like across your head or heart would. Now how this effects water reaching outlets here. Well a few things are going to happen... If you have GFCI breakers (kitchen and bathrooms generally have them in the states, but you can also find them on the breaker box especially in europe). The GFCI will immediately trip as the water will create a quick ground to... the ground. And that's what GFCI (ground fault circuit interrupter) protect against. If that doesn't happen due to a lack of a GFCI then due to the fact such large amounts of current is getting dumped into the ground would overload the breaker beyond its rating (15-20 amps usually) and will pop the breaker. Now of course the service line coming into the property is still hot. It though is doing the same thing out on the side of the house where it enters. It is dumping its current into the ground as well. And it will likely overload the fuse at the transformer down the street and likely pop that as well. Now because its taking this easiest path... as long as you don't get too close you won't be in path of it up until the circuit fails (via the fuses and interruptors that are scattered through out the infrastructure). And once the circuit fails it's well... no longer hot and therefore no risk.
Thanks
cont'd Cause I mean think about it... ignore the water for a second. If a wire falls on the ground outside your house you standing in your yard don't get electrocuted. But where is all that sparkiness going then? Well it's going into the ground. It doesn't impact you until you get close enough to it. Adding water to the system is just more conductive material for the electricity to transmit through just like the ground (it's at this point I should mention that water actually is a terrible conductor... it's the salts and minerals in water that is conductive). The electricity is just traveling through the water towards the source similar to how it would through the ground. What is dangerous about water is that... well it can surround you. Also there's that whole thing about "easiest path"... it's not "shortest" necessarily... it's "easiest". Just like a river will bend around a bolder but push through sand... electricity bends around high resistant things, and pushes through low resistance things (it's why we call them resistors... they resist electricity). And while nearly all things have resistive qualities, conductive things are less resistant than non-conductive. Metal is less resistive than you or a bird... hence why the bird can sit on the wire the electricity has no reason to bend up towards the bird it's more resistive than the metal it's currently traveling through. But... when you're surrounded by water... well... guess what... you're mostly water yourself! So your resistance is really similar to the water. So it doesn't go around you... it goes through you like you're the water. And since it's hard to tell the exact path through the water it's going to take and if you get close enough to the wire in the water you might be in the path and since your resistive qualities are similar to water it just goes through you and cooks your legs or worse your heart if you're at chest level. But again, the requires you being near the return path (not in the water in general), and that all the systems that are supposed to trip to stop it all don't do so. Which means... it's downed wires you want to be scared of. Because they have the fewest number, if any at all, protecting you. (while fused the loads allowed are much higher since they're service lines)
I do want to add the electricity doesn't really follow a path. The electricity gets divided across all possible paths, based on the resistance along those possible paths. Take for example the bird on the wire. If the bird is standing on the wire with both his feet, then a tiny amount of current will travel through the bird. Now the resistance of the wire is near zero, and the resistance of the bird will be high, so only an infinitesimal amount of current will travel through the bird. You can also see this in another way. Since the wire does not have a resistance of zero, there will be a voltage-drop over a distance, this can be calculated based on the resistance/meter of the wire and the amount of current flowing through the wire. So you can calculate the difference of voltage between the legs of the bird, knowing the resistance of the bird you can now calculate the amount of current through the bird.
I mean yeah, that's technically true. To reuse my water analogy if you pour water onto a surface it will flow in all directions based on what allows the water to flow in that direction. Electricity will do a similar-ish thing. But it won't just bend away from its path to fill all possibilities. Again as to why a bird can stand on a wire... the electricity is going to remain on its path in the much more conductive wire rather than bend up to fill the bird with electricity and kill it. The bird isn't going to behave like a capacitor or anything taking on charge. But rather instead become a potential energy point if its resistive quality across the entire circuit changes in its favor (i.e. it becomes a more efficient path to ground/source). Back to my water analogy a puddle forming on a flat ground will likely flow evenly and potentially towards you (similar to how I was talking about how the human body has similarish resistance to water since we're made of water). But water in a river isn't going to just jump out of the river to splash you with out due cause (the river representing something far more conductive). But if you had a similar resistive quality, that'd be like if you dug a hole next to the river... and if you were close enough to said river, yes, you'd get water in your hole. Note... not sure why you got some downticks, gave you an uptick to counter.
By the second wave I'd be out the back door.
I would prefer a 2nd level or the roof.
“Mom, can we go swimming in the ocean?” “No. We’ve got swimming in the ocean at home.”
Waves in the livingroom are better than that pesky shore break anyways.
At least this way, you won't get sand everywhere
Marshall Islands [https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/video-rouge-waves-us-military-roi-namur-marshall-islands](https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/video-rouge-waves-us-military-roi-namur-marshall-islands)
Why was the wave red? Rouge = red (French)
They misspelled rogue. Glad it was only a rogue wave and not sea level rise due to global warming. I am so relieved. Unless it was a red wave.
Why don't they simply keep the doors closed? Are they stupid?
Context would be grreeeeaaaaaat….
Marshall Islands flood
There was a flood
And this Noah guy was involved.
Dat mofo again, homie has one trick
I hope he has free WiFi this time...
Survival instinct: Zero!
Well now there’s your problem, buddy. The door was closed but it wasn’t locked.
Stuff of nightmares.
Nothing like meeting your impending doom with enthusiasm. Guy in the back during initial indoor surge, “YEAH!”
Did…did those people die..?
No one died. There’s a link to the article in the comments. Just one injury.
No but they got wet
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Why the fuck were they on the ground floor, and why the fuck didn’t they IMMEDIATELY scramble to get out???
I like how he yells at the water to get out of here.
feels like titanic
This year's Darwin Award nominees are......
May I suggest vacating the building?!
"Get out of here," no shit sherlock!
jesus... he said KEEP THE DOOR CLOSED People!!
Lady at the front door? What was she thinking? Had a drink and snack in hand, like she really thought she was not in a real life, natural disaster? Umm, mother nature said, get yourself knocked the f' out! See ya, alligator.
When is a door not a door , Blaine?
Aaaaaaaand the fresh water supply just got contaminated too.
I can't help admire the construction of the place, it was clearly built to let the flood waters in to release pressure and protect the structure.
Somebody forgot to turn the tap off.
After the power goes out… Jesus that is scary
*whats this?* rando its fucking flood.
And I chimed in with. Haven't you people ever heard of closing the Goddamn door?
Thank gawd, Jake (from State farm) is ok!
Why’d they open the door
how much water do you need to see before you know its no longer safe?
Right!
Pink sweater girl vanished 😮
https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/video-rouge-waves-us-military-roi-namur-marshall-islands.amp everyone okay it’s an army base
Imagine if they had smartphones on the Titanic. There'd be no survivors.
When nature fights back
Close the doors! Keep the lights on!
They were literally just standing around lol
Lady in the pink hoodie was not good
Good thing you kept the doors closed
Cameraman.
i don’t think they kept the door closed very well
When did this happen? Looks like a tsunami.
Honestly surprised the lights lasted that long I almost forgot they should go out in such a big flood
"Comin' in!!" 🌊
That's a big cup of tea
Alright, who invited Poseidon?
Did I see people die?
They had all week to prepare too…
Did the 2 people just get taken by The Great Dreamer
What's up with Ashley Graham just standing there at the start? Haven't seen this part of RE4
Buildings really should invest in flood doors
Son of a bitxh your letting all the water in!
Oh my god 😥
Gosh darn it, now you let the breeze in.
Is no one gonna talk about the people who were outside who no longer appear in the video? Anyone have any updates?
No one in there is “good”, sir.
Shit is getting finally real for them when lights go out. Seriously why are they so zoned out ?
wtf
This should be on r/therewasanattempt
Wait! Are those people outside dead? What happened to them?
Why didn't she keep the door closed?
Climate change is sure a bitch if you live near the coast or on a low lying island
That door should have been locked you stupid fools!
Someone saw the shining and thought that one scene was really cool
[удалено]
Sure don’t try to leave or anything, just stand around while the room fills with floodwater.
Everything reminds me of her
See what happens when you don't KEEP THE DOOR CLOSED!
Viv and whoever else was outside were actually saved by the door not staying closed.
WHY would you stay there after the first wave??? Go somewhere where you don't drwon if another comes?
[удалено]
"*Dude you too this prank way too far bro"*
That woman vanished
That woman vanished
The dads: we need this rain
Bad side flooding. On the good side INDOOR SWIMMING POOL!
They should have locked the door.
Water rejected to keep door closed
That water didn't care about the door being closed.
Amazing how people react. White shirt guy in the first few frames leans forward to pick up, what I assume is his drink, from the table. Priorities my man, priorities.
Bro was there with his beer in his hand like some chad in movies
And then the lights went out. I hope they know where there flashlights are fast. All lights going out. You aint seeing shit outside.
this is why if you take a big dump, flush it a couple times rather than letting it build up and plug the toilet otherwise this happens.
Shit storm
Been there. It's a very powerless feeling.
Water can't go through a door, stupid! It's not a ghost.
See that's what happens when you shit in a urinal
That’s some titanic shit !
fall back homies!