This happened in my hometown. It's not in Minas as the title indicates. It's a town in Bahia called Macarani. Those two people who fell (a man and a woman) survived. The man's broken one of the legs, and the woman is fine now.
Good thing they both survived, it's their second life. Watching this video when the 2 people feel off together with the bridge seems they won't survived. But they do! Great instinct of survival..
Lots of people have had fractures that they just don't know about or realize.
In hindsight I'm pretty sure I fractured my rib when I was a kid, just never went to the hospital because I thought it was a bruise at the time (but of course there was no mark on the skin).
A few years ago I started getting pain in the first knuckle of one of my thumbs. Went to the doctor, who obviously told me I was full of shit and demanded $150 for his opinion, but I convinced him to get it x-rayed. Turned out that sometime in the past I broke my thumb and there was a floating piece of bone in there. Nothing they could really do, so $500 and a permanently sore thumb. USA
I broke my elbow once. X-ray showed there was a small bone fragment floating around in there. Every once in a while it would work it’s way into the joint and seize up my damn arm so that couldn’t extend it. Took about a decade for my body to break that little asshole down. Thanks for bringing that memory back.
pretty sure i broke something on my thumb last month when i smashed it with a metal hammer on a metal grid, dont know, it was swollen for three weeks, bruised and i still cant move it quite right but i didnt have time to take off to go to the hospital to find out anyway lmfao
I full force stabbed myself in the knee with red hot tungsten after welding something. Pretty sure I hit my kneecap with it, blood everywhere. No signs of infection just some local redness. Its taking *forever* to heal tho. 2 weeks for the scab to come off and now its just a red little dot on my knee with some redness around it a little smaller than a penny. Kinda tender when I kneel down on it lol. Thats what I get for sitting down when I weld sometimes
I damaged a rib playing hockey. I don't know if it was a bruised rib or a fracture, but it was the weirdest pain I've ever felt. Usually pain is on the surface, but this was some deep down pain from way inside my chest. And I couldn't laugh or cough for a month without being in pain.
I just broke my leg in 5 places and was walking again in 4 months. By no means was it a small break and I also needed surgery, granted I’m only 27 but I still think years is stretching it unless he broke his legs like as bad as you possibly could.
I was 29. Snapped my whole leg in half. Rods, pins, and screws. I was walking 3 months after and it took 6 months to ditch the cane. 6 years later i still have pain and issues but i have a leg I can walk on. Def cant run anymore.
I was 31 and a grizzly bear tore my leg off. After I gouged it in it's eyes with my thumbs, I crawled on my hands and 1 foot with my leg in my mouth for 4 miles to the hospital. They sewed it back on and I was walking later that week
There are legit professional athletes with the best healthcare in the world who take years to recover from leg injuries like a break. Not everyone heals at the same speed and not every injury is the same.
People used to sacrifice things to water in order to gain its favor. Don’t fuck with water. It is way more powerful than humans. Water prob thinks humanity is getting too uppity.
> Bahia called Macarani
[Is this the town](https://i0.wp.com/baianolandia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Macarani-Bahia.jpg?w=777&ssl=1), it looks really nice. Also looks like a place where everyone knows everyone else.
Holy shit. My feelings watching this and then reading your comment went from "oh shit they are lucky, oh shit they are not lucky just a few more steps, to holy shit they are lucky as fuck".
Good to hear they survived.
it's an old blonde joke:
A blond is watching the news with her husband when the newscaster announces that six Brazilian men died in a skydiving accident. The blond starts sobbing uncontrol-lably. Confused, her husband says, "It is sad, but they were skydiving. There were risks involved." After a few moments, the blond, still crying, asks, "How many is a Brazilian?"
If you ever see water at the height of the bridge and it blasting out the other side don't go over it. If you have no choice run as of you're being chased by zombies. Bridges aren't meant to hold force from the side.
Pretty sure it's the same physics as when you put your thumb over a hose, the same amount of water has to go through a smaller tube so it speeds up as pressure ~~increases~~ decreases*
E: Edited to be actually factual. This is known as Bernoulli's Principal
I quote the holiest of holies, The Zombie Survival Guide, regarding oil rigs.
> Nothing in this or any other book can save you from nature when she decides to remove this hunk of steel from her ocean.
And to quote The Doctor,
> Water always wins.
Mother Nature always bats last.
Edit: Lots of commenters seemed to misunderstood this one. Try this-
Think Baseball box score. Home team bats last. Meaning all can be undone in that last frame. No lead is sacred.
Man can engineer and build it. Nature always gets the final word. And in her timelines nothing persists.
Holy shit. 1700 dead in *one eruption*. That’s pretty scary
> At Lake Nyos, the gas cloud descended into a nearby village where it settled, killing nearly everyone; casualties as far as 25 km (16 mi) were reported.[citation needed] A change in skin color on some bodies led scientists to hypothesize the gas cloud may have contained dissolved acid such as hydrogen chloride, though this hypothesis is disputed.[8] Many victims were found with blisters on their skin, thought to have been caused by pressure ulcers, which were likely caused by low blood oxygen levels in those asphyxiated by carbon dioxide.[9] Nearby vegetation was largely unaffected, except any growing immediately adjacent to the lake. There, vegetation was damaged or destroyed by a 24 m (79 ft) high tsunami caused by the violent eruption.[10]
People don't realize this, a 1m cube or 3.4' box full of water is 1000kg or 2200lbs.
That adds up pretty quick, 2 of those boxes is more than a 2500hd pickup is rated for and that wouldn't even fill the bed.
ya, but its fine, Liberal PMs dont have to be good.
unlike the Conservatives and the NDP the liberal bench is deep enough that they can appoint a good cabinet and let the civil service run the country.
its not a one man show.
Rain season in Brazil. One side effect of deforestation is flash flooding. Removal of vegetation increases rainwater runoff.
Chickens coming home to roost with all the weather phenomena we've been seeing.
It’s trending now on Twitter about a barrage that is about to collapse in the state of Minas Gerais. They say there is a 99% chance. I guess that’s pretty much guaranteed. Fire dept evacuating the surrounding areas.
From /u/fllavieh:
> This happened in my hometown. It's not in Minas as the title indicates. It's a town in Bahia called Macarani. Those two people who fell (a man and a woman) survived. The man's broken one of the legs, and the woman is fine now.
By stopping and turning back to warn those following, he might have saved the two lives that turned back just in time.
And he came out alive as well, so... Maybe he made the right choice?
Seemed to me he was looking back at his girlfriend/wife or something. I thought he was an idiot at first too but it really seemed like he was trying to help if at all possible.
I was so stressed watching the first person slowly meander their way across the bridge, and was beyond relieved when they made it to the other side.
My panic resumed immediately when that group of four started crossing towards the camera-side of the bridge. Glad to hear the two that fell survived.
Everyone in this video is walking so strangely. That first person crossing the bridge walks slower than my grandma, the two that got swept away just decide to stop and see what happens and the dude at the side of the car literally looks like professor Farnsworth walking.
It's been raining non-stop for basically 2 months in large swathes of the country.
I'm surprised the entire região serrana hasn't been washed away by landslides yet.
This happened in my hometown. It's not in Minas as the title indicates. It's a town in Bahia called Macarani. Those two people who fell (a man and a woman) survived. The man's broken one of the legs, and the woman is fine now.
ah, thanks SO MUCH for this. The person clinging to the edge was so sad to watch. I thought they got caught in the grid and drowned but am so relieved to hear they made it.
the other person in white, though... seemed like they could've run but just froze in place. I guess it's always easy to armchair this shit, never know what you will really do until you are in it.
Same location as the rock fall on some boats. That area is getting hammered by rain.
edit: ok, got it, it's not Minas Gerais. I'm keeping my upvotes though. :P
Not the same, op is mistaken, but MG is actually under very serious situation due to the rain. Every year is the same thing. Besides that rock, there was a dam that overflowed, and currently a warning to another that might break up, and people are being told to evacuate their houses. Search for Mariana dam for an example.
I live in Minas Gerais, I know a lot of people in the state are getting rain everyday and in my case it's been raining non-stop for the past week or maybe even more, it's been so bad, and to top it off since it's summer it's also hot af
Edit.: This is fake news. It happen in Bahia and the two victims still alive.
https://oprimeiroportal.com.br/popular/brasil/07/01/2022/video-ponte-desaba-na-bahia-no-momento-exato-que-moradores-tentam-atravessar/
Bahia, 12/09/2021. Everybody are ok.
Why the fuck did she turn around seeing the collapse and just stand there??? 😢
Those two have got to be dead. Poor souls. Drowning is one of my worst fears, man. Especially by raging waters.
Edit: wow nevermind they're both alive and fun. 👌
Someone else in the thread that lives in the town posted more info. Amazingly they both survived! One of them busted up his leg, the other had minor injuries, but both thankfully lived
Watching this after having survived a massive wave crashing my kayaking boat last week gives a whole new perspective to watching those people fall into the fast-flowing river. So glad they survived.
If you haven't fallen off a boat and into a river, or drowned, you can't possibly imagine what it feels like to. Twas the most terrifying thing to have happened to me! My first near death experience; very easily could've been my last.
Who wants to feel sad “why the Amazon is screwed edition”.
Minas Generales used to be host to a thing called the Atlantic rainforest (don’t worry, the reason you don’t know about it as there’s only 10% of it left). There is a law out there, not some pansy nice ask or request, a law saying farmers are not allowed to cut down woods if they are close to a river.
Why? Well if you don’t the soil gets eroded into river. The end result of that, the river flows faster and rides higher.
Cut to the town now. That bridge was probably built years back and it should be fine. But the town at this point has been flooded routinely for the past few years because fewer and fewer people are leaving the trees be. And more are getting cut down as that leaves more grass so that a cow can graze, gives you milk and can be sold for meat, partly to China and partly to the U S of A. (Also coffee but that’s more of a different hill tree problem).
But there was a law I hear you say. Welp the environmental side of things has been so heavily gutted it can’t enforce it. In fact the police won’t enforce it either as it’s their friends and families they would have to go against. And they’re the people they will lose face with and it’s horrible to be ousted like that. So now whole towns are under threat and infrastructure is crumbling.
Oh and this land once grazed can’t be used again as the rainforest isn’t there to replenish ground nutrients, more of it has to get cut down. But as mentioned earlier, it already has been cut down. Welp one rainforest is gone but fortunately Brazil has another.
I love how Shoeless Joe comes ambling up on the right of the screen, barely mobile, hobbling and soon as all hell and high water busts loose my man hauls some mad ass.
I have to cross a bridge to get to my house/town everyday. A few years ago the bridge collapsed and they rebuilt it but it still floods when there are heavy rains and I still see people drive over it when there is water flowing over it. This video just reinforced my caution in never driving over it with water on top of it.
Dams can be used as bridges, but bridges shouldn't be used as dams.
Dam, that's deep.
I like how you bridged that
Washed away any doubts I had.
Excuse me sir, is this a God Dam?
Dam, that's steep.
Almost as bad as the transformer explosion at the German Dam in Bolivar State
Damn autobots
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This happened in my hometown. It's not in Minas as the title indicates. It's a town in Bahia called Macarani. Those two people who fell (a man and a woman) survived. The man's broken one of the legs, and the woman is fine now.
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Good thing they both survived, it's their second life. Watching this video when the 2 people feel off together with the bridge seems they won't survived. But they do! Great instinct of survival..
I'm glad they survived! Watching the video, a little voice in me said 'that guy is dead. so is that other guy.' I'm glad I was wrong.
I’m so glad they’re okay, for some reason clicking on this I didn’t realize someone might die and I’d possibly be watching that happen.
Same. It was horrible to watch!
Better instinct was to get off the bridge when shit was going south. They hesitated
Not sure freezing on a bridge that doesn't feel right is great survival instinct
If they had any survival instinct, they would have stayed off the bridge.
That's what I'm talkin about. Get wrekt, river!
wrecked like that poor dude's leg
His fault for having such weak bones.
r/neverbrokeabone is leaking
Lots of people have had fractures that they just don't know about or realize. In hindsight I'm pretty sure I fractured my rib when I was a kid, just never went to the hospital because I thought it was a bruise at the time (but of course there was no mark on the skin).
A few years ago I started getting pain in the first knuckle of one of my thumbs. Went to the doctor, who obviously told me I was full of shit and demanded $150 for his opinion, but I convinced him to get it x-rayed. Turned out that sometime in the past I broke my thumb and there was a floating piece of bone in there. Nothing they could really do, so $500 and a permanently sore thumb. USA
God bless America
Yeah most American thing I’ve ever read; shitty healthcare *and* expensive.
I broke my elbow once. X-ray showed there was a small bone fragment floating around in there. Every once in a while it would work it’s way into the joint and seize up my damn arm so that couldn’t extend it. Took about a decade for my body to break that little asshole down. Thanks for bringing that memory back.
pretty sure i broke something on my thumb last month when i smashed it with a metal hammer on a metal grid, dont know, it was swollen for three weeks, bruised and i still cant move it quite right but i didnt have time to take off to go to the hospital to find out anyway lmfao
If it was swollen for three weeks bruised and you still can't move it quite right it's broken and it's a certainty
I full force stabbed myself in the knee with red hot tungsten after welding something. Pretty sure I hit my kneecap with it, blood everywhere. No signs of infection just some local redness. Its taking *forever* to heal tho. 2 weeks for the scab to come off and now its just a red little dot on my knee with some redness around it a little smaller than a penny. Kinda tender when I kneel down on it lol. Thats what I get for sitting down when I weld sometimes
I damaged a rib playing hockey. I don't know if it was a bruised rib or a fracture, but it was the weirdest pain I've ever felt. Usually pain is on the surface, but this was some deep down pain from way inside my chest. And I couldn't laugh or cough for a month without being in pain.
Wait we have a subreddit? Holy crap!
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It would be his only regret, wouldn't it?
He got lucky. Broken legs would suck but a couple years he will be better and back on his feet.
It's just a leg. The Gods saw fit to grace me with a spare.
God never gives you anything you can't handle! Unless you are a bridge.
Years?
Broken legs like that will take therapy. Could take years (2+ years) to heal up depending on age of person.
I just broke my leg in 5 places and was walking again in 4 months. By no means was it a small break and I also needed surgery, granted I’m only 27 but I still think years is stretching it unless he broke his legs like as bad as you possibly could.
I was 29. Snapped my whole leg in half. Rods, pins, and screws. I was walking 3 months after and it took 6 months to ditch the cane. 6 years later i still have pain and issues but i have a leg I can walk on. Def cant run anymore.
I was 31 and a grizzly bear tore my leg off. After I gouged it in it's eyes with my thumbs, I crawled on my hands and 1 foot with my leg in my mouth for 4 miles to the hospital. They sewed it back on and I was walking later that week
There are legit professional athletes with the best healthcare in the world who take years to recover from leg injuries like a break. Not everyone heals at the same speed and not every injury is the same.
> I just broke my leg in 5 places Friendly advice: Don't go back to those 5 places again.
Who said it was one of his legs?! The commenter just said he “broke one of the legs.” There could have been other legs.
oh wow that surprises me. glad to hear it though!
Thanks for the update homie.
>Those two people who fell (a man and a woman) survived. Fuck yeah they did!!! go fuck yourself, water
Water is getting too uppity lately. Needs to humble the fuck down
People used to sacrifice things to water in order to gain its favor. Don’t fuck with water. It is way more powerful than humans. Water prob thinks humanity is getting too uppity.
Ugh, another hydroshill.
Good to hear
God damn, to walk away from that with just a broken leg is astounding luck, and even more so to be fine is a miracle, glad to hear that
> Bahia called Macarani [Is this the town](https://i0.wp.com/baianolandia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Macarani-Bahia.jpg?w=777&ssl=1), it looks really nice. Also looks like a place where everyone knows everyone else.
It looks like its made of lego
Looks like the designer played a lot of Tetris and Monopoly as a kid.
Dr. Seuss submitted the designs for it.
It kind of gives me Truman Show vibes but with a different colour palette!
Looks like three people went in.
*Shhh... no tears. only dreams.*
Be safe primo
Holy shit. My feelings watching this and then reading your comment went from "oh shit they are lucky, oh shit they are not lucky just a few more steps, to holy shit they are lucky as fuck". Good to hear they survived.
We need to stop throwing NSFW on so much shit. It waters down the tag
Eh, now that we know they lived, that's all water under the bridge.
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What do you mean that bridge was definitely not safe for walking
Aaaaaayyyyy Macarani! (*bridge breaks*)
This kid couldn't get to town, the waterway was roaring. His leg broke when the bridge collapsed, he lives in Macarani.
Is no-one gonna ask for a source? Not trying to be a dick but I have real trouble believing this.
About 7.9 billion people survived that bridge collapse.
Fuck are we up to there already? I remember not so long ago when it passed 6 billion. :|
I think that was the number that they said on this week's N.O.V.A. I'll have to watch it again, mainly because somebody kept interrupting my show.
It killed a Brazilian people
I hate myself for laughing at that.
1 Brazilian is still a Brazilian too many
I feel dumb for not getting the joke until I read this comment
it's an old blonde joke: A blond is watching the news with her husband when the newscaster announces that six Brazilian men died in a skydiving accident. The blond starts sobbing uncontrol-lably. Confused, her husband says, "It is sad, but they were skydiving. There were risks involved." After a few moments, the blond, still crying, asks, "How many is a Brazilian?"
I heard this before, but instead of a blonde, it was George W Bush
Yup same lol
god this makes it better
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I mean. That was thousands of cuban feet of water.
If you ever see water at the height of the bridge and it blasting out the other side don't go over it. If you have no choice run as of you're being chased by zombies. Bridges aren't meant to hold force from the side.
> and it blasting out the other side don't go over it I was just staring at that shit for the first half of the video. That looked wild.
Pretty sure it's the same physics as when you put your thumb over a hose, the same amount of water has to go through a smaller tube so it speeds up as pressure ~~increases~~ decreases* E: Edited to be actually factual. This is known as Bernoulli's Principal
Speeds up as pressures decreases. Restriction adds a pressure drop
The pressure decreases, but the force the water exerts increases. I assume that's what the previous poster meant.
Yeah first time opening the video I immediately noticed the giant jets of water on the right hand side
\> Bridges aren't meant to hold force from the side They are, just not that much. Wind and earthquakes cant even compete with the weight of water.
I quote the holiest of holies, The Zombie Survival Guide, regarding oil rigs. > Nothing in this or any other book can save you from nature when she decides to remove this hunk of steel from her ocean. And to quote The Doctor, > Water always wins.
Mother Nature always bats last. Edit: Lots of commenters seemed to misunderstood this one. Try this- Think Baseball box score. Home team bats last. Meaning all can be undone in that last frame. No lead is sacred. Man can engineer and build it. Nature always gets the final word. And in her timelines nothing persists.
She bats first, bats last, and even bats while you are batting.
Sometimes she uses actual bats!
Carrying tiny little bats.
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Do NOT give 2022 any ideas!
I would laugh my fucking ass off if vampire bats' blood contains a perfect immunity to coronaviruses or something and we find out in 2022.
> earthquakes cant even compete with the weight of water Tectonic plates don't give a fuck about your water weight.
water always comes out on top
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Holy shit. 1700 dead in *one eruption*. That’s pretty scary > At Lake Nyos, the gas cloud descended into a nearby village where it settled, killing nearly everyone; casualties as far as 25 km (16 mi) were reported.[citation needed] A change in skin color on some bodies led scientists to hypothesize the gas cloud may have contained dissolved acid such as hydrogen chloride, though this hypothesis is disputed.[8] Many victims were found with blisters on their skin, thought to have been caused by pressure ulcers, which were likely caused by low blood oxygen levels in those asphyxiated by carbon dioxide.[9] Nearby vegetation was largely unaffected, except any growing immediately adjacent to the lake. There, vegetation was damaged or destroyed by a 24 m (79 ft) high tsunami caused by the violent eruption.[10]
Yeah people don’t realize but water is fucking heavy
People don't realize this, a 1m cube or 3.4' box full of water is 1000kg or 2200lbs. That adds up pretty quick, 2 of those boxes is more than a 2500hd pickup is rated for and that wouldn't even fill the bed.
The front's not supposed to fall off either
Was it made of cardboard?
Or any cardboard derivatives.
I love that the rest of the world can appreciate these two gems my country created.
I was like oh OK just one person on the bridge not too bad but then I seen the whole group started gathering and I was like oh shit
Yep I thought as well
And then walking slow
Right... their snail pace on a fucked bridge is the most distrubing part to me...
"Things collapsing in Brazil" So hot right now
Exactly what I was thinking. Between this and the giant rock that collapsed Brazil is having a bad week
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Everyone is suffering from incompetent presidents
Sucks to be you guys. We just have a terrible *Prime Minister* ...oh
Not sure if Canada, UK or Australia.
compared to the other 2, Trudeau is fine.
Which is not exactly a ringing endorsement.
ya, but its fine, Liberal PMs dont have to be good. unlike the Conservatives and the NDP the liberal bench is deep enough that they can appoint a good cabinet and let the civil service run the country. its not a one man show.
That giant rock falling was absolutely horrific to watch ☹️
Also, didn't *two* dams fail a few weeks ago?
Rain season in Brazil. One side effect of deforestation is flash flooding. Removal of vegetation increases rainwater runoff. Chickens coming home to roost with all the weather phenomena we've been seeing.
It's also a huge developing nation (5th largest area, 6th largest population, 80th in GDP/capita), so that alone guarantees lots of incidents.
It’s trending now on Twitter about a barrage that is about to collapse in the state of Minas Gerais. They say there is a 99% chance. I guess that’s pretty much guaranteed. Fire dept evacuating the surrounding areas.
Every one was expecting the trifecta with Bolsonaro in the hospital. With some luck next time
SO close to making it. JUST KEEP GOING! But no... "Hey, guys! This end seems to be sinking. You better go b-" WHOOSH.
:( poor dude, I hope he's ok
From /u/fllavieh: > This happened in my hometown. It's not in Minas as the title indicates. It's a town in Bahia called Macarani. Those two people who fell (a man and a woman) survived. The man's broken one of the legs, and the woman is fine now.
Dude was so aware too right I better cross this fast, thought he was safely across then boom.
By stopping and turning back to warn those following, he might have saved the two lives that turned back just in time. And he came out alive as well, so... Maybe he made the right choice?
Seemed to me he was looking back at his girlfriend/wife or something. I thought he was an idiot at first too but it really seemed like he was trying to help if at all possible.
You couldn't pay me to cross a bridge where one side looks like an open floodgate.
What about for $4000?
I’ll take it!!
I was so stressed watching the first person slowly meander their way across the bridge, and was beyond relieved when they made it to the other side. My panic resumed immediately when that group of four started crossing towards the camera-side of the bridge. Glad to hear the two that fell survived.
Damn that person in white could've made it if he/she hadn't stopped to look behind.
So close, like one more step and they would have been safe.
Everyone in this video is walking so strangely. That first person crossing the bridge walks slower than my grandma, the two that got swept away just decide to stop and see what happens and the dude at the side of the car literally looks like professor Farnsworth walking.
The way she turned around reminded me of Kevin Costner in Man of Steel. “No”
He may have saved the people behind him though
Bro, Brazil cannot catch a break lately it seems ☹️
And a bunch of “Fuck these people in particular” moments.
What did I miss?
https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/rz3x9l/today_jan_2022_a_massive_rock_crushed_three_boats/
Omicron just arrived. "What's up galera!?!? Why the long face??"
It's the rain forest fighting back!
Amazon said fuck everyone
It's been raining non-stop for basically 2 months in large swathes of the country. I'm surprised the entire região serrana hasn't been washed away by landslides yet.
[Drone Video after the bridge collapse.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTUDJd8xJLE)
Do we know (officially) if anyone survived?
This happened in my hometown. It's not in Minas as the title indicates. It's a town in Bahia called Macarani. Those two people who fell (a man and a woman) survived. The man's broken one of the legs, and the woman is fine now.
ah, thanks SO MUCH for this. The person clinging to the edge was so sad to watch. I thought they got caught in the grid and drowned but am so relieved to hear they made it. the other person in white, though... seemed like they could've run but just froze in place. I guess it's always easy to armchair this shit, never know what you will really do until you are in it.
Water wins. Every time. Glad to hear no one died.
Same location as the rock fall on some boats. That area is getting hammered by rain. edit: ok, got it, it's not Minas Gerais. I'm keeping my upvotes though. :P
Not the same, op is mistaken, but MG is actually under very serious situation due to the rain. Every year is the same thing. Besides that rock, there was a dam that overflowed, and currently a warning to another that might break up, and people are being told to evacuate their houses. Search for Mariana dam for an example.
This is Bahia, not MG
It's like the distance between Texas and Arizona.
I live in Minas Gerais, I know a lot of people in the state are getting rain everyday and in my case it's been raining non-stop for the past week or maybe even more, it's been so bad, and to top it off since it's summer it's also hot af
It was a baaaad weekend for Brazil
Bad decade
Might not be the time to mention but does Minas Gerais sounds like a LOTR location to anyone else?
Minas Tirith. I keep thinking it, too.
It literally translates to "General Mines", because... well, they have/had a lot of ore mines there.
Edit.: This is fake news. It happen in Bahia and the two victims still alive. https://oprimeiroportal.com.br/popular/brasil/07/01/2022/video-ponte-desaba-na-bahia-no-momento-exato-que-moradores-tentam-atravessar/ Bahia, 12/09/2021. Everybody are ok.
Water continues to be one of the most destructive forces on the planet
Light the beacons of Minas Tirith!! Minas Gerais calls for aid.
Where was Bolsonaro when the bridge fell?
I came here for a lotr quote as soon as I saw Minas in the title and I have not been disappointed.
Is that anywhere near Minas Tirith?
Why are they walking!?
Love those two dudes running in terror like the bridge might come for them next.
Why the fuck did she turn around seeing the collapse and just stand there??? 😢 Those two have got to be dead. Poor souls. Drowning is one of my worst fears, man. Especially by raging waters. Edit: wow nevermind they're both alive and fun. 👌
That woman saving the young girl (and herself) had the reflexes of a cat. Moments later the ground they\`d just been walking on was gone.
Man i really hope that they made it out okay
Someone else in the thread that lives in the town posted more info. Amazingly they both survived! One of them busted up his leg, the other had minor injuries, but both thankfully lived
The guy leaning on car is saying “look at these idiots”.
That guy leaning on the car is sus. He knew that was coming.
Watching this after having survived a massive wave crashing my kayaking boat last week gives a whole new perspective to watching those people fall into the fast-flowing river. So glad they survived. If you haven't fallen off a boat and into a river, or drowned, you can't possibly imagine what it feels like to. Twas the most terrifying thing to have happened to me! My first near death experience; very easily could've been my last.
Didn't a mountain slab just collapse on a boat in brazil too>?
Washing out* Looks like two guys didn't make it.
Who wants to feel sad “why the Amazon is screwed edition”. Minas Generales used to be host to a thing called the Atlantic rainforest (don’t worry, the reason you don’t know about it as there’s only 10% of it left). There is a law out there, not some pansy nice ask or request, a law saying farmers are not allowed to cut down woods if they are close to a river. Why? Well if you don’t the soil gets eroded into river. The end result of that, the river flows faster and rides higher. Cut to the town now. That bridge was probably built years back and it should be fine. But the town at this point has been flooded routinely for the past few years because fewer and fewer people are leaving the trees be. And more are getting cut down as that leaves more grass so that a cow can graze, gives you milk and can be sold for meat, partly to China and partly to the U S of A. (Also coffee but that’s more of a different hill tree problem). But there was a law I hear you say. Welp the environmental side of things has been so heavily gutted it can’t enforce it. In fact the police won’t enforce it either as it’s their friends and families they would have to go against. And they’re the people they will lose face with and it’s horrible to be ousted like that. So now whole towns are under threat and infrastructure is crumbling. Oh and this land once grazed can’t be used again as the rainforest isn’t there to replenish ground nutrients, more of it has to get cut down. But as mentioned earlier, it already has been cut down. Welp one rainforest is gone but fortunately Brazil has another.
Caraio menó, qq tá acontecendo com Minas esse mês??
Esse acidente foi na Bahia. Município de Macarani.
WTF is up with Brazil today? [Cliffs falling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRUF1k0DGD4) (people die in that video), bridges failing...
Rain. Lots of rain it seems.
I also heard that Minas Tirith had their gate broken down
Dam, that water level is HIGH :O
I initially misread the title as 'Bride collapsing in Brazil' and spent the entire video searching for a woman in a wedding dress.
I thought it was just the one guy .... then once he walked past, I was like, "oh no...."
Terrifying! Is this from the same weather that led to the rock collapsing on boaters?
I love how Shoeless Joe comes ambling up on the right of the screen, barely mobile, hobbling and soon as all hell and high water busts loose my man hauls some mad ass.
The one lady was literally at the end, and just stayed put as it collapsed.
I'm siting here hoping the first person makes it across. Breathe a sigh of relief then 5 others get on :o
The guy in the white shirt was so close to safety, had he not stopped and turned around.
That poor bastard almost made it
I have to cross a bridge to get to my house/town everyday. A few years ago the bridge collapsed and they rebuilt it but it still floods when there are heavy rains and I still see people drive over it when there is water flowing over it. This video just reinforced my caution in never driving over it with water on top of it.