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[godhandiscen]

It looks like it wasn’t a US infrastructure problem as I originally thought. There are insane floods going everywhere. A flood destroyed some towns in Germany last week too.

 

[Revolutionary]

Wow, that is a wild collection of videos.

The second one is actually terrifying. Imagine being stuck in a train car that is slowly getting filled with dirty water...


RIP to the deceased

 

[Rentahamster]

It looks like it wasn’t a US infrastructure problem as I originally thought.

It is a US infrastructure problem. Just because other places are inadequate too doesn't get us off the hook.

This is Tokyo. They are a little better prepared.

The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods

An intricate system of dams, levees and tunnels defends the Japan’s capital. Will it be able to cope with climate change?

www.bbc.com

 

[ArtemisClydeFrog]

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, ya'll free?

 

[godhandiscen]

It is a US infrastructure problem. Just because other places are inadequate too doesn't get us off the hook.

This is Tokyo. They are a little better prepared.

The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods

An intricate system of dams, levees and tunnels defends the Japan’s capital. Will it be able to cope with climate change?

www.bbc.com

I agree to an extent, but I initially dismissed these floods as some non event, when in reality the whole world is experiences water levels that very few engineering models accounted for.

 

[nush]

Wow, that is a wild collection of videos.

The second one is actually terrifying. Imagine being stuck in a train car that is slowly getting filled with dirty water...

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Wow, that is a wild collection of videos.

The second one is actually terrifying. Imagine being stuck in a train car that is slowly getting filled with dirty water...

RIP to the deceased

That's mental. Do you stay or go for it at that point, water level near the roof.

 

[Shadowplay1979]

It is a US infrastructure problem. Just because other places are inadequate too doesn't get us off the hook.

This is Tokyo. They are a little better prepared.

The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods

An intricate system of dams, levees and tunnels defends the Japan’s capital. Will it be able to cope with climate change?

www.bbc.com

One of the reasons i love Tokyo ....you sometiems have no idea if you are 3 stories underground, on level ground or 3 stories up in a building....you can be walking and end up at all 3 without realizing it

 

[nush]

That's mental. Do you stay or go for it at that point, water level near the roof.

You can't go if you are in the tunnels, the water will be deeper there.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

You can't go if you are in the tunnels, the water will be deeper there.

 

[Revolutionary]

That's mental. Do you stay or go for it at that point, water level near the roof.

They couldn't do anything but wait to be saved. The water level outside the train car was even higher than it was inside.
Here's another train car where you can see the fast-moving water outside:


I read that they had to be saved through a hatch in the roof, and that some didn't make it.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

They couldn't do anything but wait to be saved. The water level outside the train car was even higher than it was inside.
Here's another train car where you can see the fast-moving water outside:


I read that they had to be saved through a hatch in the roof, and that some didn't make it.

Yeah that is shit your pants and bunker down to be saved. You ain't swimming in that current. What a way to go out, I feel for them and their families.

 

[Porcile]

Of course they are still clutching onto their smartphones.

 

[Rentahamster]

I agree to an extent, but I initially dismissed these floods as some non event, when in reality the whole world is experiences water levels that very few engineering models accounted for.

They didn't account for this (they should have). Same situation when the levees failed during Katrina. We should have built it stronger but we didn't.

By definition, it's a problem with US ( and other cheapo countries) infrastructure.

 

[West Texas CEO]

New infrastructure should be built on the basis of 100-year events becoming 10 or 20-year events.

But I also think that the authorities should've known better and shut down public transport/road systems. It is a better safe than sorry type of scenario.

 

[GymWolf]

Ok but what is the excuse for their soggy vegetables here in usa uh?!

 

[nush]

But I also think that the authorities should've known better and shut down public transport/road systems. It is a better safe than sorry type of scenario.

They do in the south for hurricanes, stay at home, don't go to work. But inland for just heavy rain there's nothing yet to trigger that procedure.

 

[NahaNago]

That second video was disturbing and I would definitely be freaking out on the inside. Japan did something about flooding most likely because of the typhoons they get quite often.

 

[KielCasto]

Of course they are still clutching onto their smartphones.

I would too if it meant I could still contact my family in that (dire) situation.
And blast some songs one last time

 

[AJUMP23]

China out there trying to copy our flooded subways. Come up with your stuff china. I am sure they are going to have a building collapse soon too.

 

[nush]

China out there trying to copy our flooded subways. Come up with your stuff china. I am sure they are going to have a building collapse soon too.

A hotel, last week.

 

[INC]

Is this like the new ice bucket challenge?

 

[Tg89]

Of course they are still clutching onto their smartphones.

Yeah man, imagine clutching to the device that connects them to the outside world, potential news of their rescue, friends and family while they're trapped in a flooded subway with literally nothing else to do.

 

[HellforLeather]

On the plus side, now you can pee on the subway without offending anybody.

 

[poppabk]

On the plus side, now you can pee on the subway without offending anybody.

This is new?

 

[levyjl1988]

What caused the flood? Covid-19?

 

[Coolwhhip]

What caused the flood? Covid-19?

Its America retaliating with a lab created subway flood.