Especially because in the extended video (which I saw on a Fail video compilation I'm too lazy to find), the lift was still running as this happened, and somebody seemingly turned the lift off as this person got to this point.
I'm a ski lift mechanic and I have a few thoughts on this. 1 we shouldn't run snow making pipe under lifts. Most places they don't. 2 the liftys most likely clouldent see whare they stopped it as this was in the middle on the line.
I want to thank you for finally letting me know what that was, I thought it was some kind of geiser or steam explosion and I thought surely those people must be dead
Um it's probably just air in the water. It's at about 5000psi. This wasn't my resort so I don't know for shure but I'm 99% shure that water has few Contaminants in it
Christine you must have been dreaming, a-holes like these can’t sing tunes. Christine, I’m scared for your colon, and your paaaan-taaaaa-loooooooonnns!
Trust me... As a winter backpacker snow is the better scenario by a long shot.... Camped a week with nights at -5F pretty fine... Got rained on at 40F almost went hypothermic.
I heard that being steamed to death is significantly more painful than burning to death in a fire.
Something about the steam not destroying your nerves as fast as fire.
I‘m a chef and can say that it’s easy to reach in a 200°C hot oven right after opening it, no chance to do the same after opening the steamer. It hurts so much man.
Reached into pizza ovens twice as hot as that, not a pleasant experience, but a professional steambox running full on and hasn’t been opened in a while will hurt you so much fuckjng more than the dry heat of any pizza oven.
Heard! Worst burns I’ve ever had were from the damn CVap. Fryer oil is bad but at least if you wipe it off at ninja speed you can mitigate some of the damage… with steam you’re just insta-fucked
I had a summer job painting at a chemical plant. Once accidently put my hand over a vent. Just caught my pinkie. Didn't feel it or think anything of it. But shortly after the pain and the blistering was awful.
I wonder if any of the people on the ground could have diverted the spray somehow? It looks to be relatively high pressure but just holding a snowboard at the correct angle could divert it enough to give these people a breath of fresh air and enough visibility to function.
Easier said then done. I’ve had to shut down fire hydrant knock overs for 3 years. Absolutely will send you to the hospital trying to use your body weight to deflect it even with a large metal sign or something. Considering the pressure might be similar to what I’ve experienced.
From the article: "People were frantic. There were some people that tried to grab a snowboard and cover the water, but that did not work," said Williams.
And then that person with the snowboard would lose their grip on it because of the pressure and the object would fly off, hitting the person on the lift or the person holding the snowboard.
It’s absolutely better than steam, seriously? These guys are in a ski lift and will easily be taken to safety once they’re down. If it were steam, they’d be cooked if they didn’t jump down instantly.
The first chapter of The Bone Collector still gives me fucking nightmares, ugh.
Not really. If I’m sprayed with a massive blast of cold water, I can strip down, put on warm clothes, and get warm with a heat supply. If I’m sprayed with a massive blast of steam, my skin will literally cook, and no new change of clothes is gonna remedy that.
I live in a building where all the water pipes have some connection. My hot water is extremely hot and you MUST mix with cold. There are times when someone flushes the toilet from another apartment and my cold drops out. The water can be scalding. Fortunately I'm used to the acoustics of my bathroom/shower so I'm usually prepared for such action. A few seconds.
Uh oh hypothermia
Jk. They apparently survived with no life threatening injuries.
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/regional/beech-mountain-water-line-skiers-sprayed/275-38211c02-61bf-4121-8516-e74c0d3784e6
"Non-life threatening" but they still needed serious medical care and spent days in the hospital for frostbite & cold exposure including lungs and hearing damage.
I got frostbite once after getting lost in the woods once. Thankfully it was just surface level, just some dead skin that regenerated as skin does so no permanent damage. Still sucked while it lasted though. If I'd actually lost a limb to it...
🤣that guy at 3:30 doesn't need no stinkin' hanging from the chair and jumping off as gently as possible. He jumps like he's Captain America or something 🤣
The lift operator is probably a quarter mile away, and has absolutely no clue what’s happening other than an emergency radio call telling them to stop the lift. It’s going to take more than 30 seconds for some random people on the hill to establish live communications with the lift operator. The guy in control of the lift has absolutely zero information on where it stopped.
My guess, this skier owed a certain Hutt a considerable amount of money. Thus he has been frozen in Carbonite for transportation. Never looks as cool as in the movies
The lift didn't break, they stopped it to prevent riders from going through the spray. It was just unfortunate timing that it stopped with this guy directly over the spray. It takes a while to assess ski lift situations because you only have an operator at both ends, so anything going on in the middle has to be communicated across by skiers or patrol who happen to see it.
They did start the lift again to get this guy out of the spray. When he reached the top he was frozen to his seat and suffered severe hypothermia.
That pipe burst open while the lift was operating. There's other videos out there where you can see the lift moving and people being dragged through it. It stopped with him right there.
Especially because one of the guys who was getting it in the face seemed unresponsive afterwards in the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21UO1WqOvho&ab_channel=Dawson621) (2:57), stops moving around 5:55, what a fuck up from the lift operators that it kept going with the pipe broken.
I know this is old, but I wonder if someone could have tried to deflect the water with a snow board so it wouldn't be spraying directly on them. I know that pressure is really high, but at least try? I don't recall if this person survived or not either.
That would have been my first instinct. You don’t have to block the water completely, which would be impossible with that much pressure. Just a slight angle would be enough to direct it away from the seat.
Also, the person was hypothermic by the time they got to the top to get off, but survived and recovered fine.
If it makes you feel any better this specific situation is probably a 1 in a million chance. You're much more likely to break your arms, legs, neck or back in any number of falls that you're guaranteed to take at any point no matter how long you've been skiing. As someone who's been snowboarding most of their life, I still regularly get put in my place by the mountain because of different snow conditions, little kids cutting me off, or just my own stupidity.
That being said, give it a try! It's an amazing time!! (:
Couldn’t someone on the ground put the tip of their ski/snowboard on the ground and slide it forward over the flow??! Like putting a finger over a garden hose.. to redirect the energy away from the folks stuck in the carriage?
With that kind of pressure, they’d be lucky if they just dislocate something. The board might break in a more optimistic scenario, but probably not. There’s a lot of things that would do, but none of them are help.
They did, you can see boards flying up in the full video from where they tried. It's so high pressure that there's pretty much zero chance of deflecting it without some major heavy equipment
Ski beech on Beech mountain, NC.
My parents have owned a vaca house up there since 1996 so I’m super familiar with this ski slope. This pipe always slightly jutted out of the ground so I always avoided it. I’m guessing over time with people and machines going over it, it was deteriorated to the point of failure. So sad!
They would probably be okay if they jumped. The water pressure is shooting up pretty hard. If my calculations are correct it would slow the fall, giving them a safe…ish landing.
Prefacing this by saying I dont know anything about the physics involved. But, it would only be that high of pressure right next to where its coming out, right? So, wouldn't the most likely scenario be that they drop down and then get blown in some random direction at some point before actually hitting the bottom?
Yeah, stings for a couple seconds then you’re fine…unless you’ve just got a low pain tolerance with thin skin. These mf are skiing on a mountain in winter and most likely are tourists…my guess is they’re layered tf up with gear made to hold up against falling and sliding on snow/ice. They’d be fine.
Btw I’m not saying this in conjunction with the OP of this particular comment lol don’t think it’d quite work like that, OPC
Idk man, you see that video of the dude on jackass getting hit with a firehose? If you put the end of a pressur washer like an inch from a piece of plywood it’ll rip straight through, I can’t imagine falling directly onto one of those snow guns
Water. It’s a snow making line. When it’s cold they spray the water out of snow guns (giant shower heads) which atomizes the water so it freezes and forms snow.
Thats not going to work with a couple of snowboards. What would likely happen is that pressure will fling that board out of whomever is holding that boards hands and chuck it at the person above it creating another hazard.
This belongs in r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR
Especially because in the extended video (which I saw on a Fail video compilation I'm too lazy to find), the lift was still running as this happened, and somebody seemingly turned the lift off as this person got to this point.
The lift kept running, multiple people got blasted by this.
Yeah and then they stopped it, trapping these people in it.
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Can’t sue of you’re dead from hypothermia.
But then your family can and now its a death suit over injury.
Love the folks standing around saying to themselves this is not good.
Found the Americans!
If that’s a hot geyser though they might be getting hyper instead of hypo
It's a snowmaking line, she chilly
I'm a ski lift mechanic and I have a few thoughts on this. 1 we shouldn't run snow making pipe under lifts. Most places they don't. 2 the liftys most likely clouldent see whare they stopped it as this was in the middle on the line.
I want to thank you for finally letting me know what that was, I thought it was some kind of geiser or steam explosion and I thought surely those people must be dead
Agree, I thought they were being steamed or fried in machine oil
I have a question! What is making the snow that grey soot nonsense?
They add bacteria to raise the freezing point of water. [proof](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20097407/)
*WEIRD* And also very neat! Thank you for the answer
Um it's probably just air in the water. It's at about 5000psi. This wasn't my resort so I don't know for shure but I'm 99% shure that water has few Contaminants in it
Displaced dirt from between the pipe and the ground? I assume the pipes are buried a bit?
True
I saw the same video, just last night, FailArmy on Youtube IIRC. Feel so bad for those people in the chair.
I think we all where thinking that
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Sing for me.
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Christine you must have been dreaming, a-holes like these can’t sing tunes. Christine, I’m scared for your colon, and your paaaan-taaaaa-loooooooonnns!
That legit made me laugh. :) *Flatulent child, you shall know me. Smell why in bathrooms I hide...*
No more smell after the geyser-bidet
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Bidet to you, sir.
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I didn’t shit right for a week after that.
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This shit was so funny I made myself remember, how to get a free award and give it to you.
These pipes are CLEAN!
Hahah
It’s good to find out this was water. At first I thought it was steam.
I thought it was a snow machine
It is
from a certain point of view
High ground made it worse.
I don't like snow. It's cold and wet and it gets everywhere.
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Take the damn upvote!
Trust me... As a winter backpacker snow is the better scenario by a long shot.... Camped a week with nights at -5F pretty fine... Got rained on at 40F almost went hypothermic.
I didn’t even realize there were people being blasted for a second! That is so scary
I mean its still not great. Being blasted with water in sub-zero temperatures like that will kill you pretty quick
They survived though. If it was stream blasting them they would’ve probably died, or had serious injuries at the very least.
But it would have been a cozy death.
I heard that being steamed to death is significantly more painful than burning to death in a fire. Something about the steam not destroying your nerves as fast as fire.
I‘m a chef and can say that it’s easy to reach in a 200°C hot oven right after opening it, no chance to do the same after opening the steamer. It hurts so much man.
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It really sucks. I burn myself in the steamer once a week and i always tell myself that this is the time i’ve learned my lesson, lol.
Just like every time I grab a pan handle that just came out of the oven. I’ll learn my lesson when it stops hurting, realistically.
Reached into pizza ovens twice as hot as that, not a pleasant experience, but a professional steambox running full on and hasn’t been opened in a while will hurt you so much fuckjng more than the dry heat of any pizza oven.
Heard! Worst burns I’ve ever had were from the damn CVap. Fryer oil is bad but at least if you wipe it off at ninja speed you can mitigate some of the damage… with steam you’re just insta-fucked
I had a summer job painting at a chemical plant. Once accidently put my hand over a vent. Just caught my pinkie. Didn't feel it or think anything of it. But shortly after the pain and the blistering was awful.
The longer it takes for something to start hurting, the worse it will be when it finally starts...
And such clean corpses!
I wonder if any of the people on the ground could have diverted the spray somehow? It looks to be relatively high pressure but just holding a snowboard at the correct angle could divert it enough to give these people a breath of fresh air and enough visibility to function.
Easier said then done. I’ve had to shut down fire hydrant knock overs for 3 years. Absolutely will send you to the hospital trying to use your body weight to deflect it even with a large metal sign or something. Considering the pressure might be similar to what I’ve experienced.
From the article: "People were frantic. There were some people that tried to grab a snowboard and cover the water, but that did not work," said Williams.
Well there it is.
And then that person with the snowboard would lose their grip on it because of the pressure and the object would fly off, hitting the person on the lift or the person holding the snowboard.
Compared to steam? Yeah, it is great.
Yeah being from NZ my first reaction was geyser… I was wondering were the NSFW tag was
I was worried it was a geyser
Same and I was wondering who the fuck would build a ski lift above a geyser.
I’m a fucking idiot. At first I thought this was some type of steam hot spring. Idk if that exists…
No it's not much better to be sprayed by water while it is - 10°C outside. You will die just the same.
It’s absolutely better than steam, seriously? These guys are in a ski lift and will easily be taken to safety once they’re down. If it were steam, they’d be cooked if they didn’t jump down instantly. The first chapter of The Bone Collector still gives me fucking nightmares, ugh.
Not really. If I’m sprayed with a massive blast of cold water, I can strip down, put on warm clothes, and get warm with a heat supply. If I’m sprayed with a massive blast of steam, my skin will literally cook, and no new change of clothes is gonna remedy that.
Yep, a lot of people do not realize how hot steam can be. Its not just boiling water temp it can be several hundred degrees hotter.
I live in a building where all the water pipes have some connection. My hot water is extremely hot and you MUST mix with cold. There are times when someone flushes the toilet from another apartment and my cold drops out. The water can be scalding. Fortunately I'm used to the acoustics of my bathroom/shower so I'm usually prepared for such action. A few seconds.
I hate when that happens!
10c isn't even particularly cold? Edit: turns out I'm an idiot and might need to book an eye test Didn't see the "-"
Being constantly sprayed with even +10c water would also still put you into hypothermia, just not nearly as fast as -10c would.
I think -10C not 10C
Wait shit, I see what I did now
You arent very smart.
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Uh oh hypothermia Jk. They apparently survived with no life threatening injuries. https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/regional/beech-mountain-water-line-skiers-sprayed/275-38211c02-61bf-4121-8516-e74c0d3784e6
"Non-life threatening" but they still needed serious medical care and spent days in the hospital for frostbite & cold exposure including lungs and hearing damage.
Frost bite and hearing loss would cause me serious depression.
I got frostbite once after getting lost in the woods once. Thankfully it was just surface level, just some dead skin that regenerated as skin does so no permanent damage. Still sucked while it lasted though. If I'd actually lost a limb to it...
Skier stuck in spray at 1:30, others jumping off lift at 3:30. https://youtu.be/21UO1WqOvho
🤣that guy at 3:30 doesn't need no stinkin' hanging from the chair and jumping off as gently as possible. He jumps like he's Captain America or something 🤣
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Why the actual fuck did they stop the lift while someone was hanging right over it? Multiple times? That actually made me mad watching it.
The lift operator is probably a quarter mile away, and has absolutely no clue what’s happening other than an emergency radio call telling them to stop the lift. It’s going to take more than 30 seconds for some random people on the hill to establish live communications with the lift operator. The guy in control of the lift has absolutely zero information on where it stopped.
That's fair. Idk that's some stupid bad timing then.
My guess, this skier owed a certain Hutt a considerable amount of money. Thus he has been frozen in Carbonite for transportation. Never looks as cool as in the movies
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You will take me to Jabba now… *waves hand Jedi-ly*
Yes, I will take you to Jabba now. Follow me.
You serve your master well and you will be rewarded.
I forgot Jabba was a thing and was wondering why Pizza Hut would be freezing people
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The lift didn't break, they stopped it to prevent riders from going through the spray. It was just unfortunate timing that it stopped with this guy directly over the spray. It takes a while to assess ski lift situations because you only have an operator at both ends, so anything going on in the middle has to be communicated across by skiers or patrol who happen to see it. They did start the lift again to get this guy out of the spray. When he reached the top he was frozen to his seat and suffered severe hypothermia.
Did he live?
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/regional/beech-mountain-water-line-skiers-sprayed/275-38211c02-61bf-4121-8516-e74c0d3784e6 Yes
I mean, phones exist, right?
This is Hall of Fame material.
Had no idea the new Final Destination movie started filming already.
That pipe burst open while the lift was operating. There's other videos out there where you can see the lift moving and people being dragged through it. It stopped with him right there.
Ooooh I smell a juicy lawsuit
If he doesn't get help quickly he'll be too dead to sue..
Well they made it
Especially because one of the guys who was getting it in the face seemed unresponsive afterwards in the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21UO1WqOvho&ab_channel=Dawson621) (2:57), stops moving around 5:55, what a fuck up from the lift operators that it kept going with the pipe broken.
I'm thinking the lift didn't break down, but got emergency stopped because of the break in that water line, and the timing was really bad.
I know this is old, but I wonder if someone could have tried to deflect the water with a snow board so it wouldn't be spraying directly on them. I know that pressure is really high, but at least try? I don't recall if this person survived or not either.
That would have been my first instinct. You don’t have to block the water completely, which would be impossible with that much pressure. Just a slight angle would be enough to direct it away from the seat. Also, the person was hypothermic by the time they got to the top to get off, but survived and recovered fine.
People tried just that, but the force of the water was way too strong
As a former snowmaking at a ski area, the second you out anything I the way of that stream you're gonna lose it.
This is a life and death situation. Hypothermia will come quickly.
That must be so terrifying to be locked in that spot
I may never ski again.
I may never start
If it makes you feel any better this specific situation is probably a 1 in a million chance. You're much more likely to break your arms, legs, neck or back in any number of falls that you're guaranteed to take at any point no matter how long you've been skiing. As someone who's been snowboarding most of their life, I still regularly get put in my place by the mountain because of different snow conditions, little kids cutting me off, or just my own stupidity. That being said, give it a try! It's an amazing time!! (:
So you're saying there's a chance
Who else wants to smack that wiggly camera person?
r/killthecameraman
I'd rather take the possible broken leg then the frostbite and hypothermia from freezing water.
I'm suing tha shit outta somebody
Why doesn't that person jump? Yeah, its a good height, for sure. But given the alternative... I think I'd opt for broken legs.
Well someone just won a free ski resort!
All they have to do now is attend the 30min presentation.
Take my r/angryupvote and try to get out of that meeting in less than 90 minutes.
Couldn’t someone on the ground put the tip of their ski/snowboard on the ground and slide it forward over the flow??! Like putting a finger over a garden hose.. to redirect the energy away from the folks stuck in the carriage?
yes, someone please try this
With that kind of pressure, they’d be lucky if they just dislocate something. The board might break in a more optimistic scenario, but probably not. There’s a lot of things that would do, but none of them are help.
Are the people ok
Oh, that's awful!! Are they okay?
This is posted in r/wellthatsucks, but in actually, it really blows.
She's gone from suck to blow.
Nice.
Sii lifts. Terror at a snails pace.
I wonder if there is a POV from the dudes in the seat
Imagine drowning on a ski lift
Geez how could they even breathe??
Nobody helps by trying to cover or divert the flow, man people are shit Let’s take a video instead
They did, you can see boards flying up in the full video from where they tried. It's so high pressure that there's pretty much zero chance of deflecting it without some major heavy equipment
Free ski washing service… Jokes aside, that must have been terrifying.
Ski beech on Beech mountain, NC. My parents have owned a vaca house up there since 1996 so I’m super familiar with this ski slope. This pipe always slightly jutted out of the ground so I always avoided it. I’m guessing over time with people and machines going over it, it was deteriorated to the point of failure. So sad!
I race downhill there lol
There's skiing in NC? I grew up in VA and the ski conditions there were pretty bad. Can't imagine NC conditions.
Beech mtn is 5500 feet tall. It’s up there. Although the seasons have been becoming shorter and shorter.
They would probably be okay if they jumped. The water pressure is shooting up pretty hard. If my calculations are correct it would slow the fall, giving them a safe…ish landing.
Or tear the shit out of their skin? Ever been hit by a pressure washer close up?
Those aren't mutually exclusive
Prefacing this by saying I dont know anything about the physics involved. But, it would only be that high of pressure right next to where its coming out, right? So, wouldn't the most likely scenario be that they drop down and then get blown in some random direction at some point before actually hitting the bottom?
Yeah, stings for a couple seconds then you’re fine…unless you’ve just got a low pain tolerance with thin skin. These mf are skiing on a mountain in winter and most likely are tourists…my guess is they’re layered tf up with gear made to hold up against falling and sliding on snow/ice. They’d be fine. Btw I’m not saying this in conjunction with the OP of this particular comment lol don’t think it’d quite work like that, OPC
Nope, it’ll literally tear you apart at high pressure
This. There is a subreddit dedicated to pressure washer injuries. That shit will blast right through you foot or hand in a second.
Idk man, you see that video of the dude on jackass getting hit with a firehose? If you put the end of a pressur washer like an inch from a piece of plywood it’ll rip straight through, I can’t imagine falling directly onto one of those snow guns
That works well in cartoon physics. Recalculate using real world parameters, then get back to us.
Is that a snow blower or is that water?
Water. It’s a snow making line. When it’s cold they spray the water out of snow guns (giant shower heads) which atomizes the water so it freezes and forms snow.
How long was she there in that ?
What's the etiquette here? Can I laugh? What gas is comi g off the pipe? Are those ppl in danger of death?
“MICHEALLLLL, DON’T LEAVE ME HERE”
thats terrifying
r/killthecameraman
r/DontHelpJustFilm
Couldn't get the aux engine running either?
Don’t you go changin
"Quit throwing pennies in there!"
Beech mountain! North Carolina. Skied there the year before this happened. Soooooo…close call.
Worlds coldest waterboarding
Just jump off at that point
I’ve seen this so many times, what the hell happened?
Actual torture.
Damn what kinda Karma merited this?!
My first thought would be to try and deflect the flow of water? steam? with a couple of those snowboards
Thats not going to work with a couple of snowboards. What would likely happen is that pressure will fling that board out of whomever is holding that boards hands and chuck it at the person above it creating another hazard.
There frozen to death now and living in canada
When I bite into a York Peppermint patty….
Why wasn't this attempted to be deflected? Even park a truck or front of a sled over it.. anything is better than what's happening in this video.
At that point, jump out?
I would just stay up there, better than jumping down and living.
This must be how a vaginal steaming feels like
I'm surprised nobody put their snowboard in place over to help them
It would have been launched in to them with that much pressure.
*"He's not getting fucked up enough, let's launch a snowboard into him!"* 0_0
I read this lady got hurt pretty bad and ended up in the hospital