Aug 6, 2007
Want to see how fast floods can happen?
Apparently earlier this year, on my birthday to be exact, the Australian town of Kellick Creek experienced a flash flood. Luckily (or unluckily, depending on whether you happen to be an optimist or on your way to suicide) someone happened to have a video camera handy and captured the flash flood on tape. I’d heard the term flash flood before; living in the flattest province in the country, flooding of any sort is always on the minds of its residents. I had no idea just how flash-y they meant.
You can literally see the wave coming from what looks like a hundred yards away, as it rushes through a “valley”, destroying everything in its path. This has got to be Mother Nature’s response to the Black Out Band.
That dude has a big bushy beard!
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That was awesome. you got “lucky” to be there in time to catch it. I doubt very few people have witnessed something like that and lived to tell the tale. Awesome.
Oh, I can’t take credit for shooting this video. I just happened to find it and couldn’t believe how powerful it was, so I posted it here. Apologies for any miscommunication.
I agree fully with lofi. This video is obviously a Photoshop forgery. You can tell by the pixelation.
While you’re fully welcome to your own opinions, this isn’t a fake, and was referenced on a real life news site, local to the flood. That may or may not mean anything, but I’d hope that the ABC (the Australian channel, not the American one) would have enough sense to do a bit of fact checking before writing about it.
it didnt look fake to me…
nexxai – Just to let you know, because it is not always clear, the posts saying “fake” are joke posts. People riff on the old “fake or not” debates that happen around photos (thus, the “obviously a Photoshop forgery” comment) that are a bit unbelievable (like the faces in clouds photos or the giant cat that is as big as the guy holding it – that kind of stuff) and will post that something is a fake that very obviously is not. Sometimes, it is even a way of saying “that’s amazing!” in a tongue in cheek way.
All the best.
i hate floods. it could kill me. im scared of dying
This can’t be a photoshop fake, Couldn’t do that in a program like photoshop.