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All you guys who like a family xmas stroll after dinner... on 12:50 - Dec 23 by jeera
Oh this wasn't yesterday or something then?
Lagos does have a habit of digging up this vintage footage from somewhere or other.
Still it's new to me.
New to me too.
On the thread a couple of people asked why he didn't run, consensus was that the terrain wasn't suitable for running. (rocky)
I kept thinking the avalanche was going to stop short of him but it kept going.
Never seen anything like it in real time, though I did once ride some mountain roads in Peru (back from near the Amazon to Cusco) the night after very heavy rain. Six times the road was blocked with mud slides, and the locals were out with spades trying to clear them.
Riding across what was basically slurry - not fun. My guide did the worst ones (and I walked ankle deep) but I did manage a couple of the smaller ones.
All you guys who like a family xmas stroll after dinner... on 12:50 - Dec 23 by jeera
Oh this wasn't yesterday or something then?
Lagos does have a habit of digging up this vintage footage from somewhere or other.
Still it's new to me.
Yeah, it was some time back in the summer. Not that I could get tired of watching it. He’s a lucky fella that they happened to be standing in the lee of that little hill. If he’d been 20 m or so further forward he’d have been in a spot of bother.
All you guys who like a family xmas stroll after dinner... on 13:27 - Dec 23 by Swansea_Blue
Yeah, it was some time back in the summer. Not that I could get tired of watching it. He’s a lucky fella that they happened to be standing in the lee of that little hill. If he’d been 20 m or so further forward he’d have been in a spot of bother.
Need to dig out that footage of that boat that sunk.
All you guys who like a family xmas stroll after dinner... on 13:26 - Dec 23 by bluelagos
New to me too.
On the thread a couple of people asked why he didn't run, consensus was that the terrain wasn't suitable for running. (rocky)
I kept thinking the avalanche was going to stop short of him but it kept going.
Never seen anything like it in real time, though I did once ride some mountain roads in Peru (back from near the Amazon to Cusco) the night after very heavy rain. Six times the road was blocked with mud slides, and the locals were out with spades trying to clear them.
Riding across what was basically slurry - not fun. My guide did the worst ones (and I walked ankle deep) but I did manage a couple of the smaller ones.
All you guys who like a family xmas stroll after dinner... on 13:26 - Dec 23 by bluelagos
New to me too.
On the thread a couple of people asked why he didn't run, consensus was that the terrain wasn't suitable for running. (rocky)
I kept thinking the avalanche was going to stop short of him but it kept going.
Never seen anything like it in real time, though I did once ride some mountain roads in Peru (back from near the Amazon to Cusco) the night after very heavy rain. Six times the road was blocked with mud slides, and the locals were out with spades trying to clear them.
Riding across what was basically slurry - not fun. My guide did the worst ones (and I walked ankle deep) but I did manage a couple of the smaller ones.
You don't get that in sunny Suffolk :-)
We under estimate nature at our peril!
I figured it was one of those that by the time you realise you should run, it's too late! See also Tsunamis
Having also experience of Andean mud slides, it's all fun as long as you are unhurt.
All you guys who like a family xmas stroll after dinner... on 14:31 - Dec 23 by hoppy
That film still gives me the shivers man. Celine Dionne ffs
Back in the day, one Sunday afternoon a few weeks into a job two new colleagues arrived. I was tasked with helping them integrate and so I took them to a pub in Monrovia and arranged a pick up 4 hours later - plan was to watch a double header of the footie over a few beers.
Thing was, this was the first time we'd got proper heavy rain, and when it comes down, it knocks out the phone system (so couldn't call my lift) and also the satellite tv went down. So for 4 hours we sat trapped in a pub which had 1 DVD - Celine live in Vegas - which they just put on repeat.
Four hours of Celine live in Vegas is enough to send anyone a bit mental. Fortunately the bar was owned by a Slovakian who imported his beer so could at least get p*ssed on decent Czech lager.
The two co drinkers/colleagues were an Irish couple from Dublin who were traumatised as it turned out they'd just found an AK47 in their bedroom cupboard. Seems one of the previous tenants had had his own security concerns and opted for some protection of his own (as you do). When he left rather than taking his gun, he just hid it in the cupboard.
So I sat there for like 4 hours, colleagues upset and worried about where they'd just moved to, worried about the dangers of living in country that had been at war for 12 years, where guns were clearly common place. It didn't help that the security briefing on our compound highlighted we were down a cul-de-sac and so had no escape route if problems arose.
So after 4 hours of listening to their concerns (Cos I am good like that and wasn't remotely bored sh1tless thinking we'd employed a couple of right planks here) our lift finally turned up, I explained things weren't always this bad and they shouldn't worry themselves needlessly, it's genuinely rare that pubs would have no satellite tv and just one Celine CD to play.
All you guys who like a family xmas stroll after dinner... on 12:06 - Dec 23 by jeera
Incredible.
Although you begin to question his intelligence at the point he's still recording and not running.
Never seen anything quite like that. It ran like water, or even lava.
Lots of different effects to be had playing with that clip no doubt.
I wondered that and thought initially he must have not thought there was any chance it would get anywhere close to where he is.
However, at the point he fails to turn and scarper, I would imagine he is on the highest bit of land there and knew he was never going to outpace it. Better to be caught where he is than to be covered by it at a much lower level. That s was all I can think of as a reason. Looks like he ended up covered by a thin enough level that he could easily get out.
All you guys who like a family xmas stroll after dinner... on 17:16 - Dec 23 by Nthsuffolkblue
I wondered that and thought initially he must have not thought there was any chance it would get anywhere close to where he is.
However, at the point he fails to turn and scarper, I would imagine he is on the highest bit of land there and knew he was never going to outpace it. Better to be caught where he is than to be covered by it at a much lower level. That s was all I can think of as a reason. Looks like he ended up covered by a thin enough level that he could easily get out.
That's a lot to consider when a torrent of snow is rushing towards you at speed like a river broken from a dam.
I think it likely he was mesmerised and you're giving him far too much credit!
I wonder if he survived btw or if his camera was found at a later date in the tourist couple in the film Open Water who were left behind by a boat and eaten by sharks style.
All you guys who like a family xmas stroll after dinner... on 17:27 - Dec 23 by jeera
That's a lot to consider when a torrent of snow is rushing towards you at speed like a river broken from a dam.
I think it likely he was mesmerised and you're giving him far too much credit!
I wonder if he survived btw or if his camera was found at a later date in the tourist couple in the film Open Water who were left behind by a boat and eaten by sharks style.
Or the Blair Witch Project.
(No I didn't bother to open the Tweet's thread).
There was a happy ending according to the thread, so Keno and Hoppy can double entrendre away to their hearts content.
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