Mt Ruapehu volcanic lahar

[NightDragonXY9]

One person died in that by drowning in that lahar...

Next day, he came back as a ghost and pressed the dislike button!

[RightWingAviator]

rosie o donnel had diahhrea upstream

[zapster109]

really nice helicopter camerawork, I love this!

[SweetSugerpuffs]

My whole class and I have been to where this had happened..

It's pretty sad and when you touch the water it's really warm :)

[eatyorvegies]

I visited the site a week after the lahar. Smelt like Rotorua. Awesome footage

[kiwigeofreak]

Very impressive. It reminds me of the lahars generated by the Mount St Helens eruption on 18 May 1980, though they were much bigger, much more destructive and were caused by an eruption on the day. It would have been interesting to be in the hazards monitoring team tracking the progress of this event. How long after the event started did you find out that the dam had broken?

[tommaxsimonandy]

this is what happens when chuck norris has a shit

[Griffers02]

chuck norris took a shit in a river ^_^

[jabrams45]

I would have loved to paddle that shit!!!!

[carbine781]

@jabrams45 until you found out that this is boiling hot mud XD

[KillerFlood02]

Its like a river of chocolate milk, very scary and deadly chocolate milk...

[homerbear46]

@KillerFlood02 LOL Augustus Gloop disliked this.

XD

[tigjavas]

Lahar is a mix of water with volcanic material. Virtually a flowing cement . The volcanic material's size range from fine ash to rocks as huge as car or even larger.

Lahar can be either cold ,warm or hot .

[JimTLonW6]

A very impressive demonstration of the power of these things.

I do just remember the Tangiwai disaster; it happened while the Queen was visiting NZ.

[AndresPajaro]

is lahar hot?

[tommaxsimonandy]

@AndresPajaro no. im learning about them in cemistry now there just a massive mud flow. usllaly caused by a volcano eruption. there not hot.

[isegrinns]

When you see somthing like this approaching you know this is not gonna be your day.....

Must be hell for the people around.

[wvdirtboy]

Amazing. Look for the bus stop at 6:00. I wonder if the bus ended up late?

[Khothan]

It's actually part of the Tangiwai Rail Disaster memorial. A lahar from Mt Ruapehu wiped out part of the rail bridge you see in the video minutes before an overnight express train was to cross on Christmas Eve 1953. 151 people died.

[sammy13576]

that really freakin impressive, ive only seen the birds eye view ruapehu lahar until now, this wows me. this is the video people should be watching, so powerful

[spenceisthebest]

That is nuts at 2:51-3:40 seeing how fast the river rises. Insane!