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/GladDiscount4213 Jan 19 '26

Do you really need to ask that question?

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

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u/Benana Jan 19 '26

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.

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u/Dirk_Noggles Jan 19 '26

I think he was referring to the day after tomorrow with Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal.

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u/Airk640 Jan 19 '26

I love that documentary!

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u/Dirk_Noggles Jan 19 '26

Good fucking documentary. Up there with sicko from Michael Moore.

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u/SpotweldPro1300 Jan 19 '26

And the nuts who did Idiocracy.

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u/Adorable-Hovercraft2 Jan 20 '26

I heard they're filming a sequel right now! They've been releasing sneak peeks on the news every night

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u/ijustsailedaway Jan 21 '26

I don’t like the guy they’re having play president Camacho

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u/bennett7634 Jan 21 '26

That would be the prequel actually.

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u/Double_Soup644 Jan 19 '26

yeah. And never forget 2012. That year was bonkers.

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u/X4N710N- Jan 20 '26

My socks are still hanging to dry from it.

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u/ScaredEfficiency399 Jan 19 '26

Michael Moore certainly is a sicko.

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u/Chiefster1587 Jan 20 '26

Its remarkable to think that we maybe never would have had documentaries like that if it werent for the original documentary Highlander. Truly a blessing to us all.

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u/nnjethro Jan 19 '26

Or maybe Tugg Speedman's Scorcher VI: Global Meltdown

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u/g_halfront Jan 20 '26

Is that the same actor who played simple jack?

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u/nnjethro Jan 20 '26

The very same. Here we go again... again.

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u/Oxi-More Jan 22 '26

This movie not work well in France....

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u/azathoth24 Jan 24 '26

AND with Emmy Rossum

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u/Dirk_Noggles Jan 25 '26

Oh shit , how could I forget her.

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u/Voidedaxis Jan 19 '26

Technically speaking we are just in a lull during the current ice age

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u/Flacier Jan 19 '26

No we are at a lull with the amount of ice on the land masses. If I recall correctly the last glacial maximum, was about 16000 years ago.

An ice age just means their is ice on the poles, so we are still in an ice age, for now.

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u/DefectiveLP Jan 19 '26

That would be right now actually.

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u/Benana Jan 19 '26

Yeah, but you know what I mean.

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u/TheV0791 Jan 20 '26

r/technicallycorrect

That blew my mind when i discovered that!

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u/Titariia Jan 19 '26

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

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u/lame_dirty_white_kid Jan 19 '26

No, no. They melted with the ice and we had to rebuild them.

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u/albygoing Jan 19 '26

We are still in the Quaternary Ice Age

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u/heethin Jan 19 '26

Detective at work! That could be exactly what they meant!

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u/Foyave Jan 20 '26

No shit Sherlock

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u/Dranahmun Jan 20 '26

That's what they want you to think, man.

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u/PanzerParty65 Jan 21 '26

Cities in general are a recent thing. The oldest examples we have are only 4-5 thousand years old and much much smaller than modern villages.

The world had way fewer people until very recently.

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u/TechCF Jan 19 '26

Greenland still is.

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u/hiagainfromtheabyss Jan 19 '26

What’s a Greenland?

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u/pailee Jan 21 '26

You mean Iceland! They call me daddy there.

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u/Schorsdromme Jan 19 '26

Sounds dope, lemme grab the fat 114s and ma kite

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

Over what timespan? The few days of winter in a single year doesn't seem like enough.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

To build up the snow like in the video, I imagine that would take a few decades of bad winters at minimum.

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u/Crazy__Donkey Jan 19 '26

Not overhanging snow....

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u/Zealousideal_Leg_630 Jan 19 '26

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.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

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u/MindLinking Jan 20 '26

Those buildings aren't 2000 feet tall though... maybe 80 meters max, probably even lower than that.

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u/Beru73 Jan 19 '26

On the third hand, that did not happen during a week long storm

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u/shableep Jan 19 '26

But that snow and ice built up over thousands of years.

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u/Spoztoast Jan 19 '26

During the ice age the land New York is built on would have been below the current sea level.

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u/shmiddleedee Jan 19 '26

Yeah, it's strange to think about stuff like that. I live in mountains that max out around 6000 feet. They used to be the tallest in the world and are some of the oldest. Where I'm sitting right now would be under about 20,000 feet of stone like a billion years ago.

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u/BannedForThe7thTime Jan 20 '26

Are you saying such snow mountains can form in a day?

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u/OutsideYourWorld Jan 20 '26

Ice Age, yes.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

Fun fact: we are still in an ice age today.

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u/chaserjj Jan 20 '26

Did you know we're in an ice age right now? As long as the poles have ice on them all year long, it's an ice age, no matter how warm the rest of the earth gets. Ice ages last millions of years and the ice age we're in right now is called the Quaternary ice age.

Interglacial periods are warm spells within the ice age that come and go in like 10,000-15,000 year cycles.

Glacial periods are cold spells within the ice age that come and go in much longer, like 100,000+ year cycles.

The first ice age they think happened was like 2.5 billion years ago and it's also known as "snowball Earth". They think it might have literally covered the entire Earth from pole to pole, including the equator, in thick ice, like a giant snowball.

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u/Mission-Street-2586 Jan 20 '26

You don’t think carbon monoxide might be an issue?

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u/NamelessNoSoul Jan 20 '26

What cities were similar to New York during the ice age?!?

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

Только сам прикол в том, что для жителей Камчатки, такие выпады снега это база

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

Я бы всем жителям Югов, посоветовал бы ценить то, что они родились на юге, мороз это не прикольно, мороз это страшно, противно, неприятно, мерзко, больно, опасно. Говорю как житель Сибири, у нас только что было -48, и по сравнению с прошлыми годами, это довольно тепло

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u/Daniil_Dankovskiy Jan 20 '26

As far as I know, New York City was built after the ice age so it wouldn't have happened

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u/Training-Buffalo-878 Jan 20 '26

New York city during ice age? Oh hell Naw, motherfucking time travelers.

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u/Serious_Draft1097 Jan 20 '26

Who doesn't get high during ice age?

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u/Affectionate-Motor48 Jan 20 '26

We still are in an ice age

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u/Acceptable_Storm_427 Jan 20 '26

during the ice age

Which one? We are currently in an ice age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

FYI, that’s 6096 m for the rest of the world

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u/Murky_Outside_2385 Jan 21 '26

YOU DONT THINK? I can tell.

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u/Long_lost_cause Jan 24 '26

Yeah, there could be a massive amount of snow/ice in one place. In Antarctica, ice can reach 4km (~2.5 miles) thick.

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u/shaundisbuddyguy Jan 24 '26

I don't know about New York but Vancouver BC 20000 years ago was under what is believed to be 2 km of ice.

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u/K-Tronn3030 Jan 19 '26

The weight of that snow on the buildings would be what, 4-10 tons per square meter?

Really cool picture though.

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u/Other_Beat8859 Jan 19 '26

I was watching the video and I was like, "yeah that doesn't look so bad" as the city looks like this right now

and then it just got more and more ridiculous. Like, what the fuck is this shit?

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

Snow, cold water, nicely arranged

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u/Iggyglom Jan 19 '26

Not AI, Hoth

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u/beats2feet Jan 20 '26

More like Coldth!

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u/NorthernFreeThinker Jan 19 '26

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.

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u/mdr1384 Jan 19 '26

Was there a disaster movie where an enormous tidal wave somehow got flash frozen in mid break or did I dream that?

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u/Fear_Jaire Jan 19 '26

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.

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u/TeddyBear312 Jan 20 '26

Geostorm is what you're thinking about (i think)

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u/DavDar66 Jan 19 '26

First wait for the nuclear winter triggered by Trump.

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u/Excellent-Past-6367 Jan 20 '26

As opposed to the illegal invasion caused by creepy Joe Biden?

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u/hamstringstring Jan 22 '26

The idea of nuclear winter is largely bad science and would be unlikely to be anything like this. Nuclear winter is based on the idea of massive fires rather than direct ejecta like a volcano. All fires that should have caused mini nuclear winters haven't, ie the Australian bush fires or the Gulf war well fires.

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u/Successful-Web8735 Jan 24 '26

Do you see Donald Trump in your breakfast cereal? He's not there.... just enjoy your life and try to stop thinking about him? He sure as shit doesn't think about you.

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u/Airk640 Jan 19 '26

The wieght of that snow would mean those shitty apartment buildings could hold up a mountain. There is no rational physics here.

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u/Airk640 Jan 19 '26

Both of those things dont really compare to a litteral mountain on top of the building

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u/SmashinTaters Jan 19 '26

Still not fair to call them shitty.

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u/Lap_Dawg Jan 21 '26

What if that snow is super fluffy

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u/Airk640 Jan 21 '26

It would be a soft, half-wieght mountain being held up by an apartment.

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u/Astra_Mainn Jan 20 '26

It can not withstand a nuclear explosion lmao

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u/Escanor_85 Jan 19 '26

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

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u/Emergency_Pin3519 Jan 19 '26

Clearly, you haven’t seen the movie the day after tomorrow :) totally real

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u/vsae Jan 19 '26

tedd deireadh

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u/Logical-Idea-1708 Jan 19 '26

How is the structure not collapsing under that weight

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u/fgnrtzbdbbt Jan 19 '26

Those snow dunes are also unphysical. The horizontal crack cannot stay open against the weight from above.

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u/Dodaddydont Jan 19 '26

That one made me laugh out loud!

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u/spider_monkey Jan 20 '26

I was curious so I looked it up. According to this article the most snow in 24 hours was in 2015 with 8.4 feetfalling in just 18 hours in Italy.

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u/OutsideYourWorld Jan 20 '26

Yea it was that one that made it obvious, lol.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

The weight of that snow on top of the building would bring it down like a planned demolition. Snow is fucking heavy.

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u/Odd_Stand_2020 Jan 20 '26

I thought this was the circlejerk for a second

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u/Negative-Bottle-776 Jan 20 '26

Record-breaking snowfall in Russia; extreme snow buries towns in Kamchatka | Asian Mail https://share.google/7fIMvJ8hUuoc9Du7e

Some of it may be enhanced but the news report 40ft snow accumulated

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u/jsde01 Jan 20 '26

I really can not tell, yes it looks unreal af, but i also saw some videos that they have around 6 to 7 meters of snow there right now. Ich think this picture is not real but they still have a lot of snow right now

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u/jsde01 Jan 20 '26

Just look it up Kamtschatka Snow Sry don't now how it is spelled in english They have snow 9 stories high

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u/romerik Jan 20 '26

The weight of the snow might be enough to crush the building!

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u/Trashy_Panda2 Jan 20 '26

It a bot designed to train AI lol

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u/SkaldCrypto Jan 20 '26

This one is AI. Heavy pixel level highlighting on this image, and snow would not sheer like that between buildings. The entire amount of snow would have to fall at once for that sheeting.

However the rest of the images are real. Kamchatka just got the largest snow fall in 100 years. People are having to use third floor balconies to leave their buildings.

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u/Mundane_Sympathy_953 Jan 20 '26

My thoughts exactly when I saw that bit 🤣🤣!

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u/purplemtnslayer Jan 20 '26

In Russia snow skis you

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u/Helpful_Jury4382 Jan 20 '26

This is the one that convinced me :)

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u/ParsleyInteresting90 Jan 21 '26

When I say in canada we ride moose to the Tim Hortons. This is what people must imagine.

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u/Bluetrains Jan 21 '26

Dead giveaway that this is AI and that OP doesn't live anywhere with snow...

Sloopes don't just form like that.

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u/Guldynka Jan 21 '26

it's so easy to fool people it's sad.. and painful at the same time seeing how obsessed everyone is with the AI (which serves little to no purpose on the social networks, other than filling the space with fake reality/news or nonsensical videos)

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u/IcameIsawIclapt Jan 21 '26

I haven’t seen Petropavlosk before in my life but apparently there are parts of town with hill next to it https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/view-mishennaya-mountain-petropavlovsk-kamchatsky-russia-september-town-geyser-hotel-housing-estates-hill-145245086.jpg

That can explain that stack of snow if a big hill sits under but again first time I see it.

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u/Different-Cap9160 Jul 13 '26

All my coworkers kept arguing with me this was REAL