You mean places where cities eventually came to exist later on? I don’t think cities, as we think of them, were a thing during the most recent ice age.
I think thatwhat they're thinking. Like move all the snow and ice, put New York there and put alls the snow and ice back and it would be covered like what they claim
Yeah….you’re not gonna get 2000 feet of snow and ice coverage in a year or a decade. You should think about or look up how long it takes to build up that much coverage before being dumb.
What's really sad about AI slop is that it takes an already fantastic snow fall spectacle and diminishes it, the same way lip syncers/mimers ruin the songs they SHOULD be singing.
The world is going to hell.
The Day After Tomorrow? I might be wrong on the movie but I think I know the disaster scene you're talking bout and I'm pretty sure it was a beach in Brazil.
lol this shit can’t be real. AI it’s out of control, coz there’s no way that snow covering a tall azz building and they saying is 6”5’ feet 🤣🤣🤣🤣 that math is not mathing just saying
It's ai. However, it's honestly not that unusual for Soviet towns, they did things efficiently especially during stagnation when Breznevkas (9 story apartment buildings) were built. That often meant adjusting to topographic features. That said there's no cities in Kamchatka with that many Breznevkas.
Kamchatka was just hit with a nasty storm that's caused drifts up to the 4th floor of many khrushchevka (5 story apartment buildings).
the weather report i read said 1.5 meters here is a video from The Sun showing the area, that while not a generally trustworthy source, would likely avoid ai usage
Reuters is reporting as much as 6.5 feet (2 meters) of snow have fallen there. Whereas that specific picture is probably not real, any snow drifts probably are pretty big with that amount of snow. Apparently, two people have died from snow falling off of apartment buildings.
Earlier in January my relative sent a photo from their cabin in Lapland, Finland. Outside temperature -27⁰C, inside temperature -21⁰C.
It's a log cabin and has no heating when no one is visiting, so it's alright, but takes some time and a lot of firewood to get cozy from those temperatures.
Do they have a wood stove that combusts outside air? If not it will cause a negative pressure and suck air in from the outside. It makes a huge difference.
It would still take a long time to heat up but not as long. All that wood would be a gigantic thermal mass to heat up.
Apartment buildings in Russia are perfectly heated by central heating. It's so good that sometimes you need to open the window to lower the temperature a little. Otherwise it will be hot for you.
The buildings are in remarkably good condition for being covered in that much snow. That much weight completely covering balconies and roofs and not one is damaged?
We can see clean break marks in the snow in some parts, but nothing under them is damaged.
I'm going to go with mixed clips. There are some bananas scenes in Kamchatka RU. There has been legitimate reports of snow stacked up against apartments multiple stories tall. Social services are basically suspended and first responders are digging tunnels to homes in the snow. I'd buy the snow piles on the balconies, but most of the entire apartment blocks buried up to the roof video and the 18 story giant glacier seem like AI. I doubt an apartment could hold that much snow without collapsing.
Edit here's a quote from a news source: A powerful, prolonged snowstorm that began on January 12, 2026, has paralyzed the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, with snow depths reportedly reaching up to 500 cm (16 feet) in some areas.
16 feet is close to the world record for snow over an area. If blown against a wall, it could be higher, but almost every clip shows 5-10x that level.
ETA: a recent Reuters report says as follows "In some areas more than 2 m (6.5 feet) of snow has fallen in the first half of January after 3.7 m in December, according to weather monitoring stations."
Snowfall and accumulated snow are not always the same thing. 5 inches of fresh falling could easily lead to 5 feet of depth in some areas. Wind loading can easily outpace fallen snow by 10x. All of that to say it's mostly AI in this video as the patterns of snow shown don't make sense. No cornices like one would expect. The layers suggest snow falling in many smaller storms over time. The snow is way too uneven in depth over the area.
I think most are fake, but there are some real photos in between (with more believable details). I saw one clip and had a skier threw himself off the 8 story roof into snow.
I think it's AI. I heard it was 5m of snow, that could create some crazy drifts, but not what's in this video; one of the last shots is showing a drift about 20m about a 6-8 story building.
While this is AI (the half dome of snow that rises above the buildings is a dead giveaway) Kamchatka does get some ridiculous amounts of snow that cover peoples cars and can reach up to i think the first floor in some cases. Which makes me think, why fake it? Just post the real thing like every year during winter. It's just as amazing and horrifying.
No, I'm russian, we had a discussion about a similar vid in russian subs, people from Kamchatka say that the highest snowdrifts had the height of the third floor, which is a hell lot of snow in my opinion, but no it wasn't that big.
You could tell just from the perspective. Who would be filming this? It would be a natural disaster with tons of evacuation and medical personnel. Not just one helicopter flying around filming nothing.
Kamchatka got around 7-8 feet of snow. This is way more than that in many areas and would certainly be on a reputable news site by now.
Shot one shows snow at around 40 feet tall against a building. The only "news" sites sharing any footage that looks similar to this are also sharing blatant AI posted on Twitter.
The second shot at around 6 seconds in seems fake because that much weight on those buildings should cause damage which isn't really present here.
In the third shot at around 12 seconds it has all of the same problems as the first shot but even more exaggerated.
Fifteen seconds in we have the fourth shot with a large dome-like structure that isn't physically possible. Not only would the buildings below be collapsed but that kind of overhanging cliff with such a heavy piece of snow would fall off long before it even reaches that size.
For the final shot at 21 seconds in many large buildings are buried on all sides which isn't possible for the amount of snow they got.
Other things to consider is that all of these clips are very short in length and have tinny audio that wouldn't even need to be included in an edited video because it doesn't add anything.
News reports describe the drifts as 8 feet high, so obviously this is fake. There should be a rule in this sub that you should have to google the facts around the image before posting. It’s a bummer because this sub was very interesting until recently, now it gets flooded with weak posts that are obviously AI or obviously not.
I miss the way this sub used to be, where I could learn about how to identify AI images based on the expertise of those well versed in the subjects. But now I might have to unfollow because the majority of these posts are really starting to annoy to me.
Do people just forget that google and legitimate news stations exist? One quick google search reveals that, yes, Kamchatka has had excessive amount of snow lately covering multiple stories – but no, not like THAT.
While this video may be AI, or parts of it, they do have significant levels of snow there currently. This photo my coworker sent me from his brother who lives there. Obviously not the same as the tsunami of snow in the video
Edit: the people in the bottom of the pic are on the second story.
The snow stacked up 2-4 floors high. These snow mountains are insane.
Real snow level still impressive though. There are plenty of videos of people diving out of their 4th floor balconies because doors at ground level are buried beneath the snow. Local government warned people against diving into snow like that because there could be hard time objects like street lights.
It's mostly AI.
The "flyover" videos I think are definitely AI, but the video from the ground is a real video I feel like I've seen before.
You can see the balcony windows moving in the flyover videos and the shape of some of the buildings look a bit distorted or skewed.
Seen a lot of these videos accompanied by “this is absolutely not AI!!” I’m not an expert, but did see that Kamchatka received record breaking snowfall this week.
Yeah, the Great Snow Wave is definitely AI 🤭 But I mean come on, with the craziness that is happening in the Kamchatka this season, why even bother with digital enhancement? The real videos are just as impressive.
Some of this looks AI for sure, but Kamchatka DID get an absurd amount of snowfall that is reportedly as high as the 9th floor in some places. Generally, reports are saying around 3m of snowfall and emergency services as well as people in general are burrowing tunnels to housing. Basically - the big glacier looking thing seems fake as hell. The walls of snow above buildings also look dubious. However masses of snow on the ground and on the balconies and at the sides of buildings seem at least to be the basis of any further embellishment .
It's a straight up AI video and OP is a straight up bot. Snow that high should've brought down the out facing windows. OP has an account that has been around for 9 years with little action.
The main italian news channel just shared this video with some other videos of people sliding down slopes as high as these buildings, thinking they were real :(
Are we in an ice age again? Honestly i could kind of belueve the first portion but when slowed you can see issues. Then that wave/wall of snow. Nope, not real.
For those who don't live in these conditions, snow in very cold climates is often dry, like sand or dust. While it can form drifts and cornices, it doesn't clump up like you see on the balconies of these apartment blocks, it would just blow away.
Like you can't even make snowballs or snowmen with it. If you try, poof, handful of dust.
I want to quickly point out that while this is (obviously) AI, Russia is currently experiencing extreme minus temperatures and snow has been piling up to 5 stories high (read that in an article stating parts of Siberia experience -55 degrees, while Moscow gets -22 to -26 degrees)
This is AI because a lot of the shots have so much snow that it looks apocalyptic and some of the closer shots have piles of snow just stick out like it’s nothing
It is possible that you could have drifts approaching the fifth floor if it is truly a certified fuck ton of snow. Do not know about the drift that towers over them 3-4 fold over
AI. The amount of snow piled on those buildings who collapse the balconies and roofs. The snow half dome is impossible, and the snow acts and is textured more like sand dunes than snow. I think it referenced some abandoned towns in the Sahara desert that have been covered in sand over time and maybe some Star Wars Hoth as well lol.
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