Village of Blatten, Switzerland destroyed by glacier collapse. (2 Viewers)

[gianmarco]

Absolutely awful

Search of before and after pictures are unbelievable. Luckily they knew it was happening and were able to evacuate beforehand.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

Whoa

 

[Gawain]

That youtube comments section may be the largest gathering of stupidity since the Rod Stewart concert of 94 in Brazil.

 

[Kanil]

That's a crazy video to watch. Holy cow.

 

[culdeus]

That youtube comments section may be the largest gathering of stupidity since the Rod Stewart concert of 94 in Brazil.

YouTube content is dominated by bots that are designed to drive you to their profile to get you in a crypto scam. They pick up comments that get early likes and try to jump them with more all caps or a thumbnail with an *** or a political slant.

Something mildly political like a climate topic brings these in like droves as people simply can't help themselves

 

[The Z Machine]

Finally got out of my house in Geneva to get some gelato with the kids. Didn't hear anyone talking about it here.

 

[fatness]

Some great photos here: https://www.theatlantic.com/photogr...lage-blatten-glacier-landslide-photos/682965/

It looks like the landslide completely blocked a creek or river flowing through the town, and Blatten now sits in a brand-new lake.

edit: a few more photos are in the archived copy of the article: https://archive.ph/rC3Ym

 

[gianmarco]

Some great photos here: https://www.theatlantic.com/photogr...lage-blatten-glacier-landslide-photos/682965/

It looks like the landslide completely blocked a creek or river flowing through the town, and Blatten now sits in a brand-new lake.

edit: a few more photos are in the archived copy of the article: https://archive.ph/rC3Ym

Those pictures are amazing.

I saw this video as well of what it used to look like. So sad.

 

[Alex P Keaton]

That’s insane and very sad

Switzerland is a beautiful country. Spent a week there in 2022. Used to work for a Swiss company. Really bummed for friends and colleagues over there.

 

[heckmanm]

That youtube comments section may be the largest gathering of stupidity since the Rod Stewart concert of 94 in Brazil.

YouTube content is dominated by bots that are designed to drive you to their profile to get you in a crypto scam. They pick up comments that get early likes and try to jump them with more all caps or a thumbnail with an *** or a political slant.

Something mildly political like a climate topic brings these in like droves as people simply can't help themselves

off topic, but there used to be a Chrome extension that would replace YT comments with random strings of "herp" and "derp". Big improvement.

 

[mr. furley]

my house in Geneva

wait.... what?