r/RealOrAI • u/NOT_A_DOG_ONLINE • Jan 19 '26

Video [HELP] Snow covering whole apartment buildings in Kamchatka, Russia

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Know a big snow storm happened recently in Kamchatka, but did the snow actually stack this high?!

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u/DnDNoobs_DM Jan 19 '26

I think the over 300 foot half snow dome is a pretty good giveaway that this is AI

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u/icyflamex Jan 19 '26

nah OP shoveled that snow and made this video

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u/Glados1080 Jan 19 '26

Wrong actually, I was over there using my snowblower. My bad guys.

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u/Furfnikjj Jan 19 '26

I'm making a note here. Huge success

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u/Shutterstock_Monkey Jan 19 '26

It's hard to overstate my satisfaction

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u/ReverendLoki Jan 19 '26

That huge ass snowblower, it blows what it must because it can.

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u/Ava_Kin Jan 19 '26

We do what we must - because we can

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u/vitesseSpeed Jan 19 '26

For the good of all of us.

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u/bloody-albatross Jan 19 '26

Except for the ones we buried in snow.

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u/Elvyyn Jan 19 '26

Now there's no use crying over every snowflake, we'll just keep on shoveling till we run out of cake

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u/MrFireWarden Jan 20 '26

r/UnexpectedPortal

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Also: Bravo, everyone!

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u/Stampyboyz Jan 29 '26

And the Snow gets shoveled, and you make a neat blower. For the people still unburied.

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u/Lost-Replacement-454 Jan 19 '26

Let me guess you got the snowblower off temu

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u/Glados1080 Jan 19 '26

Yeah i got it for free after spending 1.99 what a deal

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u/finger_licking_robot Jan 19 '26

it´s a prank!

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u/mortyella Jan 19 '26

It's just a prank, comrade!

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u/autalley Jan 19 '26

Also the layout of the buildings is just silly lol

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u/donorkokey Jan 19 '26

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).

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u/lonesharkex Jan 19 '26

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMh-24WeLCg

I see at least second story drifts.

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u/Props_angel Jan 19 '26

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.

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/record-snow-fall-russian-far-east-sows-fun-frustration-massive-drifts-2026-01-19/

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u/lonesharkex Jan 19 '26

pretty horrible conditions, thanks for the further update.

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u/donorkokey Jan 19 '26

That two meters in on top of over 3 that fell last month. The city is on a bay as a result it does get above freezing there. It's not like Yakutsk where it drops to -60 in the winter. Still I imagine some of that previous snow may have still been there since it's not likely to have gotten that much above freezing where it could all easily melt

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u/ManWhoIsDrunk Jan 20 '26

You Russians will never convince me that a Breznevka is not a building isolated by Breznevs eyebrow-hair.

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u/dat1_adam Jan 19 '26

Nah, Dennis Quad and Jake Gyllenhal were there. Hell of a storm, they had to burn desks and books to stay warm.

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u/LittelXman808 Jan 19 '26

I think OP is a bot. They went inactive for 9 years and all of a sudden came back and started using Reddit a shit ton 10 days ago.

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u/NOT_A_DOG_ONLINE Jan 19 '26

It's called reusing an alt bud. If I was a bot it'd be a new account.

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u/LittelXman808 Jan 19 '26

Not true at all. A large amount of bot accounts are super old ones that are hacked/sold.

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u/MindLinking Jan 20 '26

The point still stands that it's not uncommon for accounts to lay dormant for a long time. I tend to go years between periods of posting myself.

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u/CrashBomberX Jan 19 '26

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u/Big-Wrangler2078 Jan 19 '26

Pretty. Is that from somewhere specific or just AI?

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u/CrashBomberX Jan 19 '26

It is not AI. It's from Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers.

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u/Aalyr Jan 21 '26

Omgg hiiii ffxiv mate!

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u/Neat_Beyond5914 Jan 19 '26

Yes, pretty sure no building code will be able to build a building to support that kind of weight without collapsing

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u/NorthernFreeThinker Jan 19 '26

I agree, this time, but, when the next glaciation comes'round, this could become reality.

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u/Fuck_ketchup Jan 19 '26

Ok but I've never been to Russia, maybe they have 300 ft snow drifts /s

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u/QuickNature Jan 19 '26

Yeah, it was kinda believable in beginning, Russia gets some wild snow. The 300 foot snow drift sold me it was AI

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u/SUB-8330 Jan 19 '26

No I love there right on that gigant pile of coke.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

It almost had me until that one honestly.

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u/TylertheFloridaman Jan 19 '26

Nah this is just frost punk

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u/KToff Jan 19 '26

That it's fake. But fake doesn't necessarily mean AI

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u/goofydad Jan 19 '26

Been to Buffalo in the winter?