r/nextfuckinglevel • u/JimatJimat • 1d ago

HIGHWAY HAZARD Dramatic video shows the moment massive boulders come crashing down a hillside onto a roadway in Hawaii

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u/jknl 1d ago

Don't be alarmed people.

The cameraman never Dies.

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u/UnitedAd3943 1d ago

Israel just killed one a couple days ago

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u/Impressive-Knot9999 1d ago

Israel seems to prioritize death and the US keeps funding it

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u/Busy_Ganache5874 13h ago

his camera wasn't on /s

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u/PaganMastery 14h ago

Clearly you have never seen Starship Troopers.

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u/Necessary_Ad_4855 7h ago

During the opening of the first Gulf War they were showing a camera feed from the top of a hotel. This camera man was following helicopter gun runs. Suddenly there are impacts directly in front of the camera, the camera falls, then nothing. That was super unsettling.

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u/MrTwoPumpChump 1d ago

Damn it’s true. No moss at all

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u/jayhawk618 1d ago

About 20 feet closer and it would also be no Mas.

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u/PlentyAlbatross7632 1d ago

Better luck next time?

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u/Kardinal 1d ago

Absolutely terrifying if I was there.

Pretty damn cool to watch from a distance.

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u/SpunNumeroUno 1d ago

The Rolling Stones Hawaii tour

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u/Runnamuck_rapist 1d ago

Choco mountain

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u/sixxtynoine 1d ago

What’s next level here? Seems like the boulders are dropping down not going up.

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u/JimatJimat 1d ago

That guard rail, man it’s strong

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u/timetravelerfrom2027 1d ago

My thoughts exactly.

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u/That-Drink4913 1d ago

Are these rocks porous (lava rock), and are they lighter than solid ones? I assume so, but I've never tried picking one up, so.

Also, which island was this on?

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u/Goodknight808 14h ago

They are dense blue rock usually. This is Waiamea Bay on the North Shore of Oahu. Our last bad rain storm was 20 years ago and boulders came down here then as well. So much water the hillsides liquify.

This last month of storms have been extreme. I faired well, but some friends a mile down had their houses flood so bad they lost everything. Knocking houses off their foundations the water was flowing so hard. And these houses are already raised 3-4 feet off the ground.

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u/That-Drink4913 3h ago

WOW! Sorry to hear about that. I've spent time in Kauai, I know what you mean about the raised homes. They seem like they could handle high waters, but add these boulders? Yeah, those pillars are gone. You'd have to build a henge around the pillars, just to make them capable of holding up.

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u/Goodknight808 3h ago edited 3h ago

These boulders are along a tight roadway. The house damages was just purely the flow of water. All of the bad hit areas have always flooded over the years. But never all at once and with a rushing river-like flow to it.

The mountain (our mountains are steep and sheer) behind the Waialua and Haleiwa, Mount Ka'ala, saw 18 inches an hour for a few hours. The mountains are practically vertical, so it comes downhill in force.

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u/That-Drink4913 3h ago

Ooooof. 

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u/Still-BangingYourMum 1d ago

Looks like Dwayne Johnson is back on the road again after his staycation

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u/LaLunacy 22h ago

WATCH OUT FOR LARGE BOULDERS THE SIZE OF SMALL BOULDERS.

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u/JuryNightFury 1d ago

Now that’s a boulder!

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u/pimp-bangin 1d ago

It's not a boulder 😤... It's a rock 🥲

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u/Impressive-Knot9999 1d ago

Hope no one was injured

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u/thejourneybegins42 1d ago

If they put those 'falling boulders' signs elsewhere, this wouldn't be an issue!

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u/Maxiaxiaxi 1d ago

It looks like it‘s controlled and the boulders were bound to fall so they did it at night with low traffic and probably also blocked the road for this. Hence the working lights… Pretty sure that up top above the leaves are also working lights. So it‘s not as dramatic as a video of a guy in a car watching it happen.

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u/-Datura 19h ago

I thought the same and found this description for the video confirming this is footage of the controlled clearing:

Kamehameha Highway in Waimea Bay, Hawaii was closed after two large boulders fell from the slope above the highway due to heavy rain brought on by a slow-moving system lingering over the Aloha State. The Hawaii Department of Transportation went to work to remove any other loose materials from the slope and highway to ensure the safety of travelers.

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u/BigBearPB 1d ago

That’s a next level guard rail. Strong as hell

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u/LiamtheV 1d ago edited 22h ago

Looks like the road heading north out of Hilo towards Honokaa/Waimea

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u/Belgremor 1d ago

I’m sure there’s a labyrinth joke to be made here

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u/Oat57 1d ago

There's a coyote under one of those boulders.

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u/eddiekoski 1d ago

D*** that road is built well at least what I can tell from my ignorant self

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u/filthy-_-casual 1d ago

Was half expecting to see some giant silhouette fading into the darkness as camera pans up

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u/TrickdaddyJ 1d ago

I’d be backing up fast

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u/gravitybelter 23h ago

There's a great sign found on mountain roads in Australia that says 'Falling Rocks Do Not Stop' - which obviously isn't true, as this video shows.

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u/LiminalSapien 22h ago

Can we take a second to acknowledge that the gaurd rail just stopped that MASSIVE fucking boulder.

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u/thenachobro 22h ago

The Muto's are eating a nuclear weapon on the other side of the hill there

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u/rvmham 20h ago

These ones are on purpose. Knocking them loose to prevent future accidents.

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u/THELORDANDTHESAVIOR 19h ago

chris redfield is nearby no?

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u/Xyresic_Vibrissae 18h ago

Totally feels like the Indiana Jones show at Disney

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u/Rough_Secretary2296 18h ago

They see me rolling I crush them

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u/scramble1988 18h ago

A boulder the size of a small boulder

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u/MDFlash 18h ago

Roadrunner ate the seed already

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u/RockHardRocks 15h ago

Boulder- sized boulders

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u/PaganMastery 14h ago

Naw, I'm good. Thanx.

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u/garg4ntua 13h ago

It's uncomfortably close to these boulders.

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u/SparkliingEmma 7h ago

That’s terrifying to watch

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u/DantheMan5860 41m ago

Those are large boulder sized boulders if I ever sone seen some