Structure swept away in Chilcotin River landslide

Tsilhqot'in National Government has released video footage to Castanet showing a structure washed away from the Chilcotin River landslide in B.C.'s Central Interior.

[@donkstamper1335]

The one house in Canada I could still afford and now it's gone ..... 😢

[@bikechickluvs2groove]

Isn’t nature just so beautiful! ❤

[@Don_ECHOguy]

Yes, when it isn't getting burned out, hailed out, or flooded.

[@jasonbednar3597]

What is the beauty you speak of? I don't understand

[@wadeross6311]

It is beautiful and natural…….the media likes to scare and dramatize natural events so the Liberals/NDP can tax people more…..then give tax payer money to media.

[@TimDyck]

That is part of the beauty of it. Everything works in balance, the forest gets old it burns or has a bug kill and is renewed. Wildlife flourish in the underbrush that comes up after a fire. And in this case a bill slides, silt is taken downstream and deposited producing a fertile flood plain. Since the last ice age this cycle has been going on.

[@jasonbednar3597]

@@TimDyck I understand what you're saying and I agree. The workings of nature are beautiful AND awesome to behold. However I fear this is a man-made disaster

[@adamsn06]

The title should be "Old shack swept away in Chilcotin River landslide"

[@Alwayswilling]

The shack was long abandoned and falling apart. It's really a stretch to use it as a loss as it would have fallen into the river soon anyway, but hey, if you need to kick up your video with something more than rushing water I'm sure some viewers would call it a loss of property instead of an improvement to the river front.

[@Charlee-w1u]

click bait

[@davidhick4303]

If they really wanted click bait they could have truthfully said “historic building destroyed by ecological disaster!” Greatly exaggerated but still technically true lol

[@Charlee-w1u]

@@davidhick4303 We live in a CNN era or errors

[@anulfadventures]

I was wrong. I thought the slide would hold, form a lake behind it and just carve a small exit. Much like the Slumgulian slide by Lake City Colorado.

[@johnarnold893]

This slide is all sands and gravel. No way it would stay in place.

[@jakhamar55]

No. Valley too shallow for that.

[@trevortomah8508]

All that heavy silt, can't be good for all the fish species and other aquatic life forms, both in the Chilcotin River & Fraser River, be safe, stay safe every one.

[@billrobbins5874]

Sad to see but mother nature is in charge. Hope all remain alert and are safe. 🤢

[@apextroll]

I can't imagine it will be good for the salmon run, but I don't know much about it.

[@briang7870]

The Fraser is muddy already

[@jakhamar55]

Beed to get out there on my jetboat

[@terrywarner1254]

This area historically is subject to geohazards, The Aboriginal's have a name for the area the reflect the slumps.

[@kingswayguitar]

i visited lexi creek many decades ago. i remember hugging an elm tree like the one beside the cabin swept away. it was beside the big river. wonder if it;s the same one in the video, elm are not native to the chilcotin which is partly why i remember. pray that everyone is safe,

[@adelinehillock1553]

I am sorry for all the people affected by this

[@jakhamar55]

Dont be sorry. Its how things work.

[@ryanwoods5687]

I hope that guy with the corny mullet got his boat outta Hope BC harbour . He was just saying it won’t happen to him . Hopefully there isn’t a mullet floating around that area

[@jo-annleake8198]

This is beyond words 😢

[@DavidBale-vn4op]

The burnt trees and shifted landscape are very dramatic. Was there also pine beetle deadwood here as well

[@michaelw1412]

There's going to be lots of gold to be found

[@jasonbednar3597]

I imagine the region must have been clear-cut in the past. Which makes it more susceptible to fire and bugs

[@fgk765jkh]

​@@jasonbednar3597Care to explain how clear cutting can cause fires and beetles?

[@jasonbednar3597]

@@fgk765jkh I could, but I'm sensing some snarkyness from your question. Correct me if I'm wrong pls

[@wadeross6311]

@@jasonbednar3597 bugs eat trees, fire burns trees……if it’s been clear cut? You must be from Vancouver 😂

[@dennislandstrom6904]

The entire hillside involving the slide appears to be bug killed and or fire killed. Dead roots do not use water so I suspect the ground was well saturated. Just my guess.

[@voiceofraisin241]

That is true. However, they said the hillside has shown signs of slumping for years before the fire.

[@loriwoloshyn7266]

Excellent footage thanks for sharing. Hope all who are effected stay safe and not suffer too much damage.

[@jessestanley1690]

Mother Nature can change landscapes quickly

[@jasonbednar3597]

@@jessestanley1690 Yes, and so can we. In 150 years we've pretty much ruined this entire province.

[@timothyparker4896]

Structure? That sounds dramatic. Sure you don’t mean ‘dilapidated wooden hut near end of its life’?

[@davidhick4303]

No they should have said “historical building destroyed by exaggerated ecological disaster!” Lmao

[@Qingeaton]

I always think of the stone tool artifacts that were buried and are now being washed down into the river for someone to find.

[@jasonbednar3597]

@@Qingeaton what are your thoughts as to where these tools came from originally?

[@Qingeaton]

@@jasonbednar3597 The cultures that came before us, like the Clovis, Folsom, Dalton, etc. Some of the stone points took down animals that are now extinct, such as the Mammoth and Mastodon.

[@jasonbednar3597]

@@Qingeaton very interesting, you've inspired me to look deeper into this. Perhaps I won't have to look so deep after this great upturn of earth

[@einfelder8262]

Amazing - the entire area appears to be volcanic ash with a thin covering of vegetation. No wonder the "dam" of sandy ash was quickly undermined.

[@ninemoonplanet]

When we see this close enough to understand how destructive the debris is, the water amounts, it clarifies everything. Flows are much worse than people are saying. Don't mess with this, stay out of the river's path.

[@voiceofraisin241]

It looks like the lake has been drained. Is that the case?

[@jasonbednar3597]

@@voiceofraisin241 I would think so yes. One big surge

[@lilliansongs-w2d]

Poor Trees, they were so happy before this happened.

[@sandraberube641]

It’s so sad what you see! All mother nature 🌬️ but 😮 🥹🙏🙏🙏

[@frances7340]

Will the Lower Mainland bee affected as well as Richmond?

[@charlesbeaudry3263]

Good job!

[@GrandmaBeth2dogs]

It was a heritage log cabin.

[@AOCisHome]

it's all burned land. No root's left. 2:02

[@WelcomeBackCanada]

First thing I saw when this happened. People who live in that area said the same thing. 😢

[@Jessev741]

It's sand...

[@jasonbednar3597]

Do you think the region was clear-cut prior to fire?

[@squire7207]

So you're in a helicopter videoing these scenes & the best you can do is a phone held vertically. Too bad the resolution and or focus is from a previous millennium,

[@amelia2770]

Beautiful sight 😍

[@SailorGreenTea]

0:58, was that a dog bark?

[@TWilson-t8h]

Sounded like a guy saying “Wow”. 🤷‍♂️ (0:59)

[@CouchCommander5000]

awesome

[@dough1968GMC]

Bravo to the vertical Cameraman!!!😂🤣😂🤣

[@WatershedWildlife]

You're shooting a landscape in portrait? WTF?

[@aspman97]

Generational thing? something to do with never having taken art class?

[@fgk765jkh]

Seriously, stop your winning. Save it for the 2 year olds.

[@alan4sure]

It's GenZ and millenial cluelessness showing. 😅

[@alan4sure]

​@@fgk765jkhyou woulda done it too I'd bet. No clue.😂

[@fodor7069]

Exciting.

[@johnarnold893]

Don't these people have any idea how to shoot video. It's an outdoor scene, not a portrait. Shoot in landscape mode FFS.

[@schrempskynate8944]

Realtors be like "Limited time offer get a cabin with a river view out of the back of the porch. Asking $2 million. Hurry. Please God hurry".

[@Don_ECHOguy]

Putin would blame this natural event on Zelenskyy as he is notorious with the blame game.

[@jasonbednar3597]

@@Don_ECHOguy Have you always felt enmity towards the Russian president or just since we were told to recently by the media and our "leaders" ?

[@oracleofottawa]

Another welcome improvement to the British Columbia Mainland..... (I do hope there were no dead baby's washed away in this video.)

[@jasonbednar3597]

@@oracleofottawa dead babies??

[@Kirk-i3u]

A run down, dilapidated barn was swept away, oh, no.

[@jasonbednar3597]

Actually it's part of a historical homestead. Kinda sad, I think

[@jorgseidel7011]

No wonder , unable to have a good forest managment and the destroying cattle business

[@DunDun-e43]

That's more like it then the slow flowing first images we saw. But I am low hoping it would burst to be spectacular

[@martinelongum9921]

Where is this river? I am inDenmark

[@alanmurtagh6675]

British Columbia, Canada. You are safe.

[@martinelongum9921]

@@alanmurtagh6675 thankyou - I just didnt know which country

[@rioborzeli147]

This Video is NOT from you I seen this from TheBirdNerd flying his private helicopter, TheBirdNerd should be getting Credit for this ?

[@Jessev741]

Read the description, they claim it was shared to them by the Tsilhqot'in National Government.

[@Don_ECHOguy]

TheBirdNerd is a video gamer and bird nut and does not own a private helicopter. Looks like he downloaded his 1:29 clip from Vivavideo so he does not own it or the rights.

[@Bruno-my9uf]

This is old news !!!!!!

[@AussieBodybuilder]

14 East Indians lived in that structure

[@fgk765jkh]

Relax racist

[@TWilson-t8h]

Human trafficking, Oz Man?

[@Charlee-w1u]

Structure yea an old worn down shed,

[@canada.589]

can aaaaa daaaaaa lol

[@boblatkey7160]

Structure swept away? You mean 100-year-old pile of wood? 😂

[@steveballzack1409]

In B.C. that's a $1.5 million home.

[@cortholiopezorama8879]

No. It’s 1.5 million for the hole dug in the hillside. That’s 2.25 million easily.

[@jasonbednar3597]

@@boblatkey7160 some funny replies, but it was actually a part of a historic homestead. Everything goes eventually, just like us

[@stevenmcinnis8105]

A cheep drone takes better footage.

[@danwins2241]

I saw the full video where the helicopter films the old shack from above the river for a while and nothing happens. It then flies to the land side of the shack and then around, wouldn't you know it the shack falls in the river. It had nothing to do with the prop wash helping the shack into the water for a more dramatic shot. The news would never manipulate a story would it.

[@longsleevethong1457]

This is Justin Castro’s fault

[@MM-ld6fj]

No big deal just a old old building.

[@Method9]

But we're still building 12 pipelines, right? That's the important thing.

[@atodaso1668]

Well yeah, the millions of extra people per year require more resources.

[@waltergoring8428]

@@atodaso1668 In an backwards system like ours

[@cortholiopezorama8879]

If true believers would stop using petrochemical products there’d be more for everyone else and we wouldn’t need new pipelines.

[@waltergoring8428]

@@cortholiopezorama8879 Thats like asking prisoners to not eat at the prison cafeteria if they don't like the food

[@jimmiematho8082]

😮 all I care about is we don't send any money to the Indians you can tell the chief is angling for some funds already about his salmon

[@Jessev741]

@@jimmiematho8082 wtf is wrong with you?

[@WilbertRobichaud]

@@Jessev741 He is telling it like it is, Joe is a crook and will see this as an opportunity for himself to get richer. We live here and know about Joe.

[@jasonbednar3597]

Your concerns about judicious use of public funds is valid, but the term Indian is a slur.

[@fgk765jkh]

Spoken like a true racist.

[@WilbertRobichaud]

@@fgk765jkh when you classify people by numbers like "first nation" is racist.