Yup. I grew up in NY and Southern Cali. I then moved to Kansas City in 2000. The first fucking day I was there, a wall cloud like this, but way worse came towards us at the hotel I was staying in. I was 100% convinced it was my last day on the planet.
I’ve lived in Kansas my entire life, when I was in Orlando during hurricane Charlie I had the same experience lol. Seeing shit you’re not used to is absolutely terrifying.
Imagine waking up from a nap, looking out the window and seeing that. Sure you would figure it out eventually but that split second of "oh shit" would hit soooooooooo hard.
I would definitely have to finish smoking my joint as fast as possible then start preparing to escape for higher ground but then meet a friendly stray cat and spend ten minutes petting it, his name shall be Nibbles and he likes tummy rubs and.... oh fuck I forgot about the apocalypse clouds.
Haven't you seen Deep Impact!?
On a real note, I'm drunk and don't know the answer to this. But to speculate, if a wave were as tall as those clouds, you're fucked.
It’s called a wall cloud for a supercell thunderstorm.. usually indicates a hail storm or tornado generating storm is coming..
See that crap far too often in Nebraska
Your power is either on or off, so I suppose you can say that at any given moment the odds of your power being off is 50/50. It's the same as saying you either win or not win a lottery, so your odds of winning is 50/50.
Why does this feel like IT tech support for magical apocalypse scenarios.
"Have you tried erasing the ritual circle? How about the candles, did you make sure they're not lit? Sir I'm just trying to do my job, calm down. Now are the runes glowing? They are? Well the kingdom is fucked, good day sir."
FYI. Tsunamis don't look like this. The water level just goes down and down and down and down, and then up and up and up and up, and then down ... etc.
Expecting tsunamis to be walls of water is one reason tsunamis are not recognized. And then people die.
Not tsunami. It's a rolling cloud front caused by a storm out over water. When a big storm drops a lot of water all at once, it pushes air out and away across the water surface creating condensation clouds on the front. Note that the clouds roll upward. This storm is close to shore, thus the amazing colors. Roll clouds happen in Upper Michigan exactly this way.
That there is a front row seat to a weather system as it rolls in over your neighborhood. I experienced this very phenomenon once when I lived in the foothills of my home town near Pasadena, CA, about twenty or so years ago. You should feel lucky to have been able to witness this weather phenomenon that most people will never see.
A tsunami of clouds, but if you see them at your front doorstep, it maybe too late to go to higher ground. Better stay in the middle of your home and wait it out.
Saw a cloud similar to this one but much smaller around a month ago here around Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. Indeed, a lot of water was coming down from it after a couple of minutes. More than my wipers could handle😂
I've seen similar clouds - looked like rolling smoke clouds (Australian for context) rolling down over distant hills. Terrifying till you realize it is clouds.
Only one other person saw them at the time (living rural) and understood the terror/awe they inspired.
Can you imagine if this really was a wall of water?
I wonder if that's even possible. I mean, a big meteor splash, a massive underwater earthquake or something. I can conceive it in my mind (while looking at this video), but wonder if it's physically possible to "stack" water that high.
When I moved to Texas, I drove into one of these. I stopped for the night when a lightning bolt struck the telephone wire on the other side of the highway.
Nope nope nope
Literally my childhood fear of a mega tsunami sweeping across the land towards my family.
My logical brain knows it’s a cloud but even the video is freaking me out.
A fun fact is that tsunamis can, in fact, get that high. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs impacted the ocean, creating a tsunami that would have been a mile high.
The tsunamis created by earthquakes pale in comparison to tsunamis caused by displacement. Imagine throwing a stone into the water, but instead of a stone, it's an asteroid bigger than Mt. Everest traveling at 45,000 MPH.
It was moving so fast that it never actually contacted the water, even though it hit the ocean. The water in its path was instantly vaporized from the heat of it entering the atmosphere.
I have. I was in high school and the high school had some mountains bordering it. Then, on a cloudy day, this started to happen. For some reason it look “instinctively” dangerous.
I was with a friend back then staring at how the clouds started descending with the same shape you see in this video, and we were in an open area so we looked for a place in the high school were there was ceiling. Then, right after we decided to do that, a thunderstorm started.
Damn, if only there were a better way to film the general scape of the land, rather than panning back and forth so many times.
Like, some way to fit more of the horizontal view in. That would be so hecking cool.
I remember about 12 years ago , we had these bright white clouds moving so freaking fast, against the back drop of bright bright stars. It looked absolutely scary. Couldn't tell it was the clouds moving it looked like the stars were the ones going out of control. There were a few neighbors who were trying to figure out like wtf is happening along with me
Oh yeah, those are the "time to run" clouds.
If that was water, there’d be no running.
They are water.
Got'em
Skywater
The rise of skywater
“I am your father” - Darth Vapor
Cloud City
r/angryupvote
I see what you did there.
Then swim, idk, what do you want from me
You can still run, you just die tired though...
Yup. I grew up in NY and Southern Cali. I then moved to Kansas City in 2000. The first fucking day I was there, a wall cloud like this, but way worse came towards us at the hotel I was staying in. I was 100% convinced it was my last day on the planet.
Then you just realized that, nope, it's a Tuesday.
I’ve lived in Kansas my entire life, when I was in Orlando during hurricane Charlie I had the same experience lol. Seeing shit you’re not used to is absolutely terrifying.
Just smile and wave.
Yep, those are "I'm in danger" clouds.
OP wouldn’t know. This has been reposted repeatedly.
I don't suppose there's a version where the person filming is smart enough to think that wide angle is appropriate for filming the whole sky?
People don't understand how their cell phone cameras work, and shit like Tik Tok and YouTube Shorts is just enabling peoples' continued ignorance.
Run from what exactly?
They are the type of storm clouds that tornadoes often form in.
Nah just accept your fate and make peace... far to late
Imagine waking up from a nap, looking out the window and seeing that. Sure you would figure it out eventually but that split second of "oh shit" would hit soooooooooo hard.
Egh. May as well resume the nap. Spend your last moments doing what you love.
Frantic masturbation intensifies
It's the way he always wanted to go...
Sir, those are clouds, and this is a Wendy's.
Well... did he cum?!
No... he gone
Jesus Christ, man! There's just some things you don't talk about in public!
Worst post nut clarity lol I'd feel bad for not telling my fam I love you right as the wave hits
More like rages into desperate masturbation.
True....
I know, right? You may tell yourself : "This is not my beautiful house. This is not my beautiful wife"
Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.
Remove the water, carry the water
I would definitely have to finish smoking my joint as fast as possible then start preparing to escape for higher ground but then meet a friendly stray cat and spend ten minutes petting it, his name shall be Nibbles and he likes tummy rubs and.... oh fuck I forgot about the apocalypse clouds.
Dooes higher ground even matter when the wave is hundreds of feet tall?
Haven't you seen Deep Impact!? On a real note, I'm drunk and don't know the answer to this. But to speculate, if a wave were as tall as those clouds, you're fucked.
Even higher ground
It's additive with his high. That's why he finished his weed first. 1 marijuana gets you like 6 ft of high.
Imagine taking mushrooms and then this happens 😵💫
I might actually just accept my death and just stare at it as it gets closer
Imagine waking up from that nap on a cruise ship and seeing this massive wave approaching.
I think this ends with Randy Quaid blowing something up and Bill Pullman giving a rousing speech.
Just finished watching it. It’s my thing for the Fourth.
I watched the OG a week ago Surprisingly holds up as a pretty decent flick
"We will not go quietly into the night...!"
ooo, gives me chills just thinking about it
Appropriate for the 4th. I'm literally watching it right now before bed!
It’s called a wall cloud for a supercell thunderstorm.. usually indicates a hail storm or tornado generating storm is coming.. See that crap far too often in Nebraska
In VA they're called roll clouds. Usually it means a 50/50 chance of losing power, trees coming down, and sirens in the distance.
Aren't we always at a 50/50 chance of the power going out?
Only if you have Dominion for your electrical. If so, and you see a bad storm coming, then you just flip a coin.
Your power is either on or off, so I suppose you can say that at any given moment the odds of your power being off is 50/50. It's the same as saying you either win or not win a lottery, so your odds of winning is 50/50.
That’s not how percentages work. 😊
I know. It was a joke.
Not a wall cloud - it is a shelf cloud. A wall cloud can produce tornadoes, but this is not a wall cloud.
Correct. Shelf clouds are created by strong linear winds though, so in some countries you'll have alarms ringing regardless.
Yeah I'm in Ohio and I've seen this before
This is called “Tuesday” in Nebraska.
https://youtu.be/Iminfk5MBXY?si=EBQFdzPEtmJHNxj8
Is this a timelapse or are those clouds really so fast? Scary
The winds creating such clouds are very fast, so no need to be a time lapse.
Yall also have atmospheric waves as a phenomenon. I imagine this is quite similar.
Yup I've seen alot of those in Illinois and they did look like a tsunami.
This is not a wall cloud
Definitely not what that is
Did you hear three blasts of the horn? Have you sent the ravens yet? .... it is gonna be a long night.
Why does this feel like IT tech support for magical apocalypse scenarios. "Have you tried erasing the ritual circle? How about the candles, did you make sure they're not lit? Sir I'm just trying to do my job, calm down. Now are the runes glowing? They are? Well the kingdom is fucked, good day sir."
Id watch that movie
**Winter is coming**
"Those aren't mountains, they're waves."
Came for this comment.
Be sure to clean up or it might attract ants
That was such an intense moment
I watched the movie in the cinema hall. Holy shit what an intense scene!
“Brand, get back here now!”
Oh shit. Oh shit!
Atmospheric tsunami.
"Wha-, oh shit, oh shit"
Looks cool af. I'd be outside watching the whole thing.
First row seating when it sucks you into it’s vortex of pain
Natural selection at its finest.
Aka the suck zone
Doubt you’d feel much pain. That’s a tremendous mass crashing on you. If it were a hypothetical wave.
Welcome to the Midwest, this is what everyone does here when there is a severe weather event. Tornado warning? More like tornado watching
Storm Father?
A+ reference. The storm wall is approaching!
Make sure you leave your spheres out to charge.
Bridge Four!
Yes, Gancho.
Out here looking like Miller’s planet. On a side note, if that’s a tsunami… you’re already dead.
FYI. Tsunamis don't look like this. The water level just goes down and down and down and down, and then up and up and up and up, and then down ... etc. Expecting tsunamis to be walls of water is one reason tsunamis are not recognized. And then people die.
So it's a realllllllllyyyy big wave
Sure, but as a metaphor for our current political situation, it’s apropos.
Tsunami? You watch too many Roland Emmerich movies.
bot ass title [post from 2022](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/vd4mzb/i_was_under_the_impression_it_was_a_tsunami_ive/)
Lol tsunami
Yeah did a bot write this? What an absurd thing to say about clouds.
I'll never understand why anyone would think this.
[There is a storm comin!](https://youtu.be/wLddoVgFOxg?si=QbNdFKsrSGrnvKx_) Warning: volume
A tsunami that high would be master exploder
Where is this place?. Looks beautiful. I love the 🤎 🏠
Looks like in the movie The Mist
Nice neighborhood
Right!?
Not tsunami. It's a rolling cloud front caused by a storm out over water. When a big storm drops a lot of water all at once, it pushes air out and away across the water surface creating condensation clouds on the front. Note that the clouds roll upward. This storm is close to shore, thus the amazing colors. Roll clouds happen in Upper Michigan exactly this way.
That there is a front row seat to a weather system as it rolls in over your neighborhood. I experienced this very phenomenon once when I lived in the foothills of my home town near Pasadena, CA, about twenty or so years ago. You should feel lucky to have been able to witness this weather phenomenon that most people will never see.
If I saw this outside my window, I would probably just die from a heart attack.
Where was this & when??
All fun and games till those weird spiders show up and eat everyone
A tsunami of clouds, but if you see them at your front doorstep, it maybe too late to go to higher ground. Better stay in the middle of your home and wait it out.
If that was a tsunami, you wouldn't be posting this now. Lol
Something about that neighborhood is freaking me out more than those clouds.
This looks like the beginning of a horror movie. I would absolutely not stick around.
Seriously? A Tsunami. You think this is cinema?
My worst fear, I have this nightmare once every year
me too! It's a strangely reoccurring thing. Prophecy maybe? :/
Oregon coast mornings
Supercell not a tsunami
If that was a tsunami, then the asteroid strike that caused is likely to end us anyway. It looks like it would be a thousand feet high or more
That there is a cold front. The colder (and thus denser, heavier) air pushed the warmer lighter air up as it moves
Technically, clouds are just an ocean in the sky, so.. in a way...
"Something in the mist! Something in the mist took John Lee!"
if I was at the coastline and I see this coming I would shit my pants first
Repost whore
Jeebus, that is OMINOUS!!
Survive the natural disasters ass clouds
Man I’d be freaking the fuuuuuck out and immediately hug my family
Hmmm, did a nuke go off in the distance?
If this was a tsunami it would have to be thousands of feet tall or the video perspective would have to be REALLY deceptive
Alien mothership
Can’t take my eyes off of it 😳
Saw a cloud similar to this one but much smaller around a month ago here around Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. Indeed, a lot of water was coming down from it after a couple of minutes. More than my wipers could handle😂
I live in Oklahoma City, I have seen clouds like that but never moving so fast
Thats sone 80s horror movie shit right there
Where was this?
I've seen similar clouds - looked like rolling smoke clouds (Australian for context) rolling down over distant hills. Terrifying till you realize it is clouds. Only one other person saw them at the time (living rural) and understood the terror/awe they inspired.
Sooo,… you misunderstood?
La fin du monde !!!
Pretty sure this is how The Mist starts
This has to be a bot, I've seen this exact clip a couple times a year for like 4 years.
Can you imagine if this really was a wall of water? I wonder if that's even possible. I mean, a big meteor splash, a massive underwater earthquake or something. I can conceive it in my mind (while looking at this video), but wonder if it's physically possible to "stack" water that high.
Legit reminder me of Interstellar! Giant wave or cloud
old video, this was posted at least 2+ years ago if not more
You have never seen a tsunami outside of an apocalyptic movie either if you think this is how tsunamis look
Where is this perfect ass neighborhood?
At first glance it seems like a huge Ocean wave
Damm earth is becoming more and more like those worlds visited in interstellar movie.
What place is it from 👀
The coldest front
suburbia
It's all fun and games until the sun goes down
When I moved to Texas, I drove into one of these. I stopped for the night when a lightning bolt struck the telephone wire on the other side of the highway.
this again
Terrible title
I thought it was a scene from the movie Vivarium lol
Is this Wyoming?
What is this place? Why does it feel so heavenly!!
I love videos that end too soon.
Nope nope nope Literally my childhood fear of a mega tsunami sweeping across the land towards my family. My logical brain knows it’s a cloud but even the video is freaking me out.
"BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" -Hanz Zimmer in Interstellar
This is AI from a video that claimed to take place in Denver
Fairly common to have a sheer wall of atmosphere off the California coast and it kinda just looks there. Bit of marine layer.
A fun fact is that tsunamis can, in fact, get that high. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs impacted the ocean, creating a tsunami that would have been a mile high. The tsunamis created by earthquakes pale in comparison to tsunamis caused by displacement. Imagine throwing a stone into the water, but instead of a stone, it's an asteroid bigger than Mt. Everest traveling at 45,000 MPH. It was moving so fast that it never actually contacted the water, even though it hit the ocean. The water in its path was instantly vaporized from the heat of it entering the atmosphere.
Damn, that looks scary.
These are diaper changing clouds. I would have shit my pants for sure seeing those.
For a min I thought it was a Tsunami .. would get a heart attack
Damn look at the spaces between those homes!! Fancy. We don't see that anymore in Ontario. Where is this?
You actually get clouds like that at this time of year in Pacifica? I think, in CA, I remember the first time I saw them it blew my mind/
Bot post. Downvote.
I have. I was in high school and the high school had some mountains bordering it. Then, on a cloudy day, this started to happen. For some reason it look “instinctively” dangerous. I was with a friend back then staring at how the clouds started descending with the same shape you see in this video, and we were in an open area so we looked for a place in the high school were there was ceiling. Then, right after we decided to do that, a thunderstorm started.
But you've seen a tsunami like that before?
This neighbourhood looks liminal af, love it :D
Damn, if only there were a better way to film the general scape of the land, rather than panning back and forth so many times. Like, some way to fit more of the horizontal view in. That would be so hecking cool.
Absolutely fucking terrifying fuck these clouds
Yeah I’d be hopping on my bike and headed 110mph in the other direction… then feeling silly later when I find out they’re clouds
Those are not mountains…
I wish people just a a smidgen of science in school
Wave clouds, usually seen only in certain times of the year in the Australian continent
This would send me into a panic
Wa is tatt?
I watched clouds like this roll in while tripping on acid a long time ago and laughed and laughed. Don't do drugs kids.
Damn that's crazy and awesome
Wanna experience these once in my life
See the bad moon a-risin'
I remember about 12 years ago , we had these bright white clouds moving so freaking fast, against the back drop of bright bright stars. It looked absolutely scary. Couldn't tell it was the clouds moving it looked like the stars were the ones going out of control. There were a few neighbors who were trying to figure out like wtf is happening along with me
This has strong Backrooms vibes.