A bunch of guys ignored warnings about a flash flood…a drone captured their mistake.

Some would say hopping on top of a waterfall when there have been flash flood warnings is stupid. But these guys did it, and were lucky to get away with their lives.

As they describe it:

Then suddenly without warning there was an enormous rush of water coming over the waterfall, it had to have been instantly 50 times as much water rushing over, and the water was flowing fast.  What caught my eye was the massive volume of water at the bottom of the fall churning over the surface of the pool, created by the power and volume of water that suddenly appeared. Those of us on the beach screamed to each other “WHERE’S SEAN?!?!”.  There was no other option in my mind than that I had just seen our friend disappear and be killed, and there was nothing we could do about it.  The water was rushing to the beach like a big wave to shore and we scrambled to grab our backpacks and cameras from getting washed away.

 

The whole thing was caught by a camera on a drone they had set up to catch their dive off of the waterfall. At about :32 you see the water flow increase dramatically By :55 it's a raging flood.

You can read their tale of near tragedy here.

 

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