Why this "falling rocks" sign is more important than most
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- Опубликовано: 7 ноя 2021
- In Brienz/Brinzauls, a small village in the east of Switzerland, there's a village slipping into a valley and a road that's surprisingly dangerous. Thanks to everyone I interviewed: pull down the description for links and more details!
CCTV footage from Geopraevent, used with permission: www.geopraevent.ch/
More details on the Brienz radar: www.geopraevent.ch/project/ro...
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Camera: Alicja Pahl
Producer: Sebastian Capeda at Viven viven.ch
Editor: Michelle Martin / mrsmmartin
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Update from June 2023: there was indeed a large rockslide, but it managed to miss most of the village! www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65926381
I was just reading the report and wondered 'Is that where Tom went?'
I just saw that on the German news and immediately recognized the village.
Tom would you come back for Part 2?
@@Schwarztee87 What is he supposed to say. "The mountain was there, now its here." Doesn't make for the best video, does it?
I recognised the town from the news report and came to check!
I'm certain that that must be a relaxing village when you're in your bed at night and the weather is stormy with a chance of massive boulders.
@@MaybeGodwillsaveMe it's not grammatically incorrect, in fact some argue it's better than one "that," which is why it hasn't fallen out of style.
@@MaybeGodwillsaveMe Thank Thank You You.
Cloudy with a chance of boulders
@@thap34nut66 low rumbling thunder....oh wait.
which 'that' would you remove? The 'that' that introduces the statement, or the 'that' that serves as the identifier of the object of the sentence?
My GCSE German is really paying off, I understood "worst case scenario" without even trying
HAHA xd This would be me with Spanish
Right?! It's like it translated itself
Even non-Swiss German speakers don't understand more than that from Swiss Germanophones
@@kosinusify the language spoken in the video is not Swiss German, it is German with a Swiss accent
@@Beybladelouser yes, it is clearly understandable if you can speak german. A lot more understandable than something like bavarian or saxon...
I love the fact that "Worst Case Scenario" is still in English.
I hate the fact
No language better suited to describe something bad
Schlimmstenfalls
Hey mate, no apologies were made for being the most versatile language on earth.
It may sound that way, but it's actually "Worst Case *Szenario* "
See, this is why engineers are incredible. If I were living there facing this problem, I'd throw my hands up and say "The mountain spirit is pissed off at us, we should probably leave."
To be fair, leaving works too.
@@gui874111 To be fair, the mountain spirit probably is pissed off anyway. =D
Studio Ghibli agrees
Last time I heard mountain spirits the Hawaiians were protesting a new telescope. Kind of lost respect for them.
I was just thinking that this is how most people would react and why the world is so terrible
Imagine the fear of being a pair of scissors in this village.
That’s why you build your house out of paper
Huh?
@@thesauce1682 it's a rock paper scissors joke. in the game, rock beats scissors, therefore a pair of scissors would be scared of a village with falling rocks because of the rocks.
Lesbian villagers: [perpetual sweating]
@@dang5874 PAHAHHAHA
That "worst case scenario" really caught me off-guard
Same with "Kindergarden" or "Schadenfreude" from a native German speaker's perspective :)
Switched to scouse for a moment there 😂
It's just an engineer speaking engineer
Bratwurst käse scenario
@@KevinHesp The dreaded Wurst-Käse-Szenario!
As a swiss I'm deeply sorry our mountains didnt treat you with the right amount of respect to show you a little rockfall.
We still hope you enjoyed your stay and will come back in the future.
Maybe they were camera shy!
Iceland's and Swizerland's geology (-y, not -ist!) are conspiring to not do anything whenever Tom arrives
As another Swiss, now nobody is allowed to be there.
Feel sad for the people who used to live there.
@@rjung_chwhat? Where did they go?
@@XandarYT they are allowed back it seems.
Update: The town of Brienz is now prepared for evacuation. The rocks have started moving more quickly and there's now a real danger to the town.
Evacuation order has now been given.
I remember watching this video. It seems crazy to me that the whole village has to leave now.😮
I really hope they will be able to return soon.
The village is currently evacuated and a major landslide is expected within a month!
The Landslide has happened...
Earthquake…
This wasn’t the Rolling Stones concert I paid for
Lmao
1.5k subs before my birthday 🎂
Current: 1k
No, you wont get 1.5 subs
The Rolling Stones should do a concert there
Better than the Travis concert
_"And, since installation, we've detected five and a half..."_
Oh, well that's not that bad. Although, I don't know what "a half" would mean-
_"...thousand events."_
Oh, damn.
Thank you! My mind thought the exact same thing
Exactly my thought process
😅😅😅
I thought exactly the same thing!
Same
And that's just the last 3 years, or ~1100 days... so, like 5 times a day, on average, the lights come on and traffic stops for giant rocks.
Reminds me of a Douglas Adam's quote:
"The avalanche began. Stones, then rocks, then boulders which pranced past him like clumsy puppies, only much, much bigger, much, much harder and heavier, and almost infinitely more likely to kill you if they fell on you."
😂 I love this, thank you for sharing!
Update from 16th June 2023: Last night, a huge section of the mountain collapsed. The section of road shown in Tom's video is now several metres under rock
Just saw it on the news and recognized it, hope everyone is well.
The traffic light survived, but the hut that can be seen at 3:17 didn't. In hindsight it probably wasn't the ideal spot to build a hut.
Just imagine if this video was done in one take, and the rock fall started right on cue. Tom would have died of happiness!
Did you mean cue?
Or possibly due to being hit by a boulder… glad that didn’t happen!
@@michaelsmith4904 Yes, then 'Tom would have died in happiness!'.
@@NeblogaiLT Hahaha
It would make up for his disappointing lava flow.
"Beautiful hills and mountains that occasionally try to kill people"
"Hmm, i roll for perception check"
The barkeeper laughed, the party laughed, the hills laughed, we killed the hills. It was a good time.
The gang of thugs that was about to jump the party: "Oh, THEY killed the hills? Maybe let's... _not..._ mess with them..."
nat 1
Everything appears to be safe :)
"The rocks roll for speed check"
Tom: “mischievous kids throwing pebbles”
Also Tom: throws a pebble
Tom is still young at heart
Well, he flew a kite in a public place
Let’s hope a rock doesn’t hit the traffic light
Because that would be terrific on the edge of time
@@Pamimiii what about it being "Terraffic"?
Might save a car
I think that also means stop
@@Grane1234 I was thinking about that
Fun fact: some Dutch traffic lights use radar like this to detect if a person is waiting at the intersection, so that the system can stop the cars and let the pedestrians cross.
Count on the Canadian to bring fun Dutch facts. Just look for Orange circle xD
I don't know if it's radar-based, but many traffic lights in the UK have a little box of tricks on top that can detect pedestrians and cars, and control the lights accordingly. Even some of the temporary traffic lights used in roadworks have them.
In Canada we just have buttons that you can press; is the radar superior to that system in some way?
Another fun Dutch fact. There are no "falling rocks" signs in the Netherlands. I guess.
@@marshm3llow467 Is the radar not superior than buttons?
On the 16th of June, a big rock slide happened! It barely missed the town. The slide stopped just before the little parking space on the left and the stop light on the right you see at 3:06. It did destroy the shed and those five flagpoles. They closed the entire town just hours before the slide.
No, the entire town had already been evacuated more than a month prior to this. People haven't lived there since the 12th of May and you weren't (and still aren't) allowed to go there.
As of 9 May 2023, the two million cubic metres of rock are moving too fast for the village to be safe. Because of that, the village is to be evacuated until Friday, 12 May at 6 p.m. and nobody (with a few exceptions, as some cows etc will stay for now) will be allowed in anymore. They've already stopped letting non-residents inside, the roads have been closed. It's very likely that there's going to be some sort of bigger landslide there in the very near future.
What about the people who live there. Are they compensated? I would assume insurance companies would just refuse if you live in an area such as this.
Still.... it's a small village, I would hope that those who live here could relocate and get similar houses elsewhere.
@@goffe2282 I asked my teacher this and he said insurance would have to pay. Brienz/Brinzauls is in the canton of Grisons (Graubünden), where property insurance (or whatever the correct term in English is) is mandatory. And that's the main purpose of said insurance.
@@jonistan9268 I hope they get enough and that the property they owned is just not valued high enough.
It happened!!!
I hope the cows are ok
I'd like to think that Tom stood there for many hours recording the same clip over and over again just to improve his chances of a rock falling in the background.
Might have been easier to take a sledgehammer up there to knock a few loose
I wouldn’t doubt that 😆
I absolutely believe this to be true. If not, it's head cannon.
"I was hoping a little rock fall- CUT!"
*attempts 10 more times*
Good ol' "The light will turn green.... NOW!.... NOW!.... NOWNOWNOWNOW!- YES! I'M PSYCHIC!"
I love the "No stopping for the next 480 meters" sign. It's weirdly specific and very obviously a very good advice.
If that were in America, there'd be a whole line of cars parked in the middle of the no stopping zone with people hopping out to take a selfie with the hillside as the backdrop.
@@thekinginyellow1744 If youutravel like this in switzerland, you would never get nowhere becaus we switzerland is similar to the rocky mountain geographicly speaking.
Trust me, here in Hamburg we have 'no parking' warning signs during high water events. These fairly regular events are highly predictable. The region around the Fischmarkthalle, the Fish Market Hall, and some areas in the Speicherstadt, will then be flooded up to a meter or two in depth. More than sufficient to completely submerge parked cars.
Yet it is astonishing how the city of Hamburg regularly recieves 'donations' of flooded parked cars in exactly those areas. The numbers of stupid people are staggering.
I suspect the specific 480m number is chosen to highlight the importance. If it was 500m, then it would seem like a generic sign, and be taken less seriously. 480m makes it seem like the sign is bespoke, and therefore the danger is real.
@@RustyDust101 I would think that in Germany people would heed the warning. Is this my problem of positive discrimination? 🤭
This is one great example for setting a safety mechanism BEFORE an accident happened.
Update, the village has to be evacuated right now due to the mountain threatening the village itself.
True !
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Today I learned the German for “worst-case scenario”. And that is something you might not have known.
Wurst-Käse Scenario - Sausage-Cheese Scenario.
There is another, less Anglicised expression: GAU = größter anzunehmender Unfall = catastrophic failure
Would you prefer Schlimmstfallszenario?
Thousands of tonnes of sausages hurtling down the mountain would presumably be the Wurst case scenario
It's not. It's just a phrase that is commonly used.
Villagers: *Literally live next to a mountain where rocks come raining down.*
Geologist: "It's not life-threatening, just unpleasant."
“Roses are dead”
“Violets are dying”
“Outside I’m smiling”
“But inside I’m crying”
“I just wish people would give my content a chance”
I can't imagine having your house sliding down a mountain at 1.5 meters per year.
Geologist: "On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being safe and pleasant, and 10 being Pompeii, it's a 3. It's fine."
Kinda like Icelandic people living next to an active volcano that actually produces lava sometimes. "We have warning systems, it's fine"
Hi! Thanks for the great video! Update about this story, they are evacuating the village this week! It's now moving more than 1m per year and they are expecting a large rockfall anytime soon in the coming weeks.
Greetings from 🇨🇭 Switzerland!
2:14 "If [the traffic light] is RED, there is an acute risk of falling rocks"
I don't know why but I really like this wording
This was a really difficult video to find a title for without giving away the story. I think it's fascinating, but sometimes it's really frustrating how everything has to be summed up into a single title and thumbnail!
How did you post this a week before the video was uploaded?
A week ago?
Hi Tom
When will you cover the official talk show?
As in come to the official talk show
As a Swiss it's weird hearing someone talk english with an noticable Kiwi accent and then still having a bit of the Swiss german melody while talking. :) Great video Tom!
Finally someone who recognises it as a kiwi accent. Everyone is calling it Australian
@@rachelcookie321 I'm an Aussie, and I thought I detected South Africa in a few words, but I think the melody threw me off.
@@rachelcookie321 I thought I could hear a bit of both. Maybe a northern Queensland accent even?
No it’s Kiwi. It’s definitely not Queensland.
Yours
A Queenslander with Kiwi roots.
Oh, thanks! As someone who lives far from any of these, that person just had me confused. Are they central European? Yes. Are they British / Australian / something? Yes. Are they Swiss and grew up with enough English to develop an accent? And that accent not being American? Hmm.
Now I know!
DM: You enter the town of Brienz.
Players: We're going to continue down the road and look for tavern and shops.
DM looking at notes, looks to players: What were your dex saves again?
There has been a major landslide this night over there today June 16 2023
There are only two questions that remain to be answered:
1. How does a geological radar specialist in Grisons end up with an Australian accent?
2. Is it alright to wish the residents of Brienz "Guten Rutsch" ahead of the new year?
Australia is a popular destination for young Swiss people to travel to (as in: taknig a year or so off in your 20ies and travel around Australia for a while) or to study in. There's a surprising amount of Aussie accents around here.
Backpacking high school graduates is Germany's+ Switzerland's biggest export to Australia
> Susanne holds an MSc in climate sciences from ETH Zurich and a postgraduate diploma in risk, disaster and resilience from UCL London.
+6 months in New Zealand 15 years ago.
1. probably did a work & travel year in australia while not having refined english before, very popular in ger, alternatively might be raised bilingually by an australian parent
2. yes, since they are not germans but swiss, these people do posess humor
@@user-ib3th1vz4g Do you know, or are you guessing re 6 months in New Zealand?
(I also thought it sounded more like NZ than AUS)
Trying to place the accent was very distracting, I should watch the video again.
I like how there’s this small hut right in the firing path of the landslide, whoever lives in that must have guts of steel
I was never aware of the fact that "the other Brienz" has massive geological challenges too. I know the village called Brienz in the canton of Bern and there the mountains are also quite alive. Parts of the village have been destroyed in 2005 by massive mud flows. I hope the people in Brienz / Brienzauls are safe for the years to come and that the worst case scenario is not coming true.
I don't think it can be understated how good the pan over to the "heavy rock" was. Not only does it get the point across immediately, it also got a huge laugh out of me.
“Roses are dead”
“Violets are dying”
“Outside I’m smiling”
“But inside I’m crying”
“I just wish people would give my content a chance”
@@slosandwich7287 Thats rough. Go somewhere else.
@@slosandwich7287 its nor your a bot, or you havent thought of taking advantage of the algorithm yet
I want Tom to make a video on why all the grass in Swizerland is so perfectly mowed.
We don't have anything else to do
Cows. The answer is cows. (And some sheep and goats.)
@@tookitogo so the grass is mooowed, then...
@@stahlschorsch 😂😂😂😂nice one!
Because farmera get money for it. As easy as that.
I LOVE the sound of a Swiss who went to New Zealand to polish her English!!
Been puzzling over that one, you might be right!
It’s absolutely mesmerising!
I had to come back here. Remembered the video but couldn’t remember if was the same village that’s been in the news. Nature is a scary thing.
My family calls it the most athletic village of switzerland, because it moves so much.
that has to be one of the coolest looking villages ever
Most villages of that size in the Alps look something like that.
it rocks
Alex!!! Hi!
And the faste one with 1,5m per year
...
you're here
1:24 Im starting to learn the language, i fully understood "worst case scenario" - Thanks Tom Scott
Thanks! I missed this and was looking for a timestamp.
Update: The residents of Brienz have today been told to evacuate their homes by this Friday and seek accommodations with friends and family in different villages.
As software engineer developing this I would have very very swaty palms every time it goes off ... A lot of responsbility for correctly judging such a complex envionment. Lots of respect for their seemingly working solution.
Hi
If think if I lived there, I wouldn't mind the occasional false alarm honestly. Much better than false negatives.
As a software engineer developing this, I would always have sweaty palms because false negatives exist and people could be hit by rocks
i know! _100%_ correct dude
It going off is fine, I’d worry all the time it’s *not* going off!
Even simpler, they could have just told everyone to bring paper with them whenever they drive down this road.
I'm always trying to do things my own way, and now I've decided to find a way to cut rock with scissors. If that doesn't work, I'll bash it with a sledgehammer, purely out of spite.
**20 ton rock travelling at 40 mph off a mountan side towards me**
Me: **pulls out piece of paper**
Me: Checkmate!
LMAO!!
Until the rocks bring scissors with them on the way down.
Indeed. Just fencing the area with paper would have been much simpler. None of this complicated "radar" stuff...
;)
Just an idea, in uni we learnt about a town 'Rissa' that had quick clay underneath it that became liquefied due to the excavation of only 1 barn. It seems like a topic you may want to make a video on
Rissa is no longer a town/municipality on its own. A law signed in 2018 reorganized it so it is part of a larger municipality.
Heard in the news a few days ago that the village is to be evacuated, and thought "That could be the village Tom Scott was about a yerar ago". Yepp. It is.
This village must be really grinding the dungeon masters nerves. He's giving them a lot of warning shots
Make a perception check
I rolled a -1
Rocks fall, everyone -dies- installs a calibrated radar network with warning lights
world state dcs
The rocks are so bright, they occasionally look like they're added by CG and the lighting pass isn't quite done.
They reminded me of Minas Tirith.
The rocks are brighter than my future
The AO isn't RTAO, so it's understandable.
@@skachor that isn't a huge accomplishment
oh wow, A video about a place I've actually visited! Last winter while driving home from skiing I actually had to stop infront of the red light and actually saw some rocks falling down of that site. Was quite terrifying but hearing that 5500 events were recorded this incident is apparently not even noteworthy ^^
"One day when you're older, you could get hit by a boulder."
Yoda
and when you're lying there, screaming "come help me please"
@@finesse5820 the seaguls poke your knees
@@sebastianglyb2334 mmh Ah mm-mm-mm mhhah mm-mm-ha mm-mn-mm-mm mm-ha
Stop it. Please
everybody knows that seagulls are the worst
That footage of the really big boulders rolling down the hill is honestly terrifying! Wild to think that something that large and heavy would roll in a way that makes it look like a toy almost.
my thoughts exactly, a few meters to the side and that shack would have been vaporized
Ever heard of gravity? Round things + gravity = rolling. Regardless of it's heaviness.
@@vomm ever heard of being stupid? I assume you didnt. You can always look into mirror if you are curious about what it is
@@mertaliyigit3288 😂😂
@@vomm yes, I'm sure everyone who went to school heard about gravity👌
I think a "DANGER: Rock Crossing" sign would have better comedic value, but Rock Light, Green Light seems safer.
surelly a traffic light for the rocks would be the best solution, they approach the road, press a button, wait for traffic and then cross, no need for fancy radar just some manners and a bit of patience
I think the major concern is in fog/heavy snowfall makes seeing an incoming bolder difficult in many cases, and given it's the Swiss we're talking about, this much infrastructure is worth preventing a potential accident with an overconfident driver in the snow.
Not complicated enough
@@Mikemcjr guess so
@@Alex-cw3rz The number of people here not getting the joke is too damn high!
Let me just reiterate the punchline...
_ahem_
*ROCK CROSSING*
As in, a crossing for the rocks. They deserve rights too!
I saw today's article about the landslide and knew the village looked familiar from this video. I'm so glad this worked so well!
The village was evacuated. The whole mountain is about to slide down.
Yes, I read it in the news. Very sad!
It was quite jarring to suddenly hear him say "worst case scenario" in English, but not nearly as jarring as if you were driving down the road and got hit by a car sized boulder at 20 km/h!
Imagine telling your insurer the reason your car is totalled, is because a rock hit it. Not that you hit a rock, but the rock hit you.
@@SeanBZA Poetry in motion, Sean.
Imagine how massive that wall would have to be to stop such a boulder
Good ol' denglish
also interesting point: that village won't exist for "long" as it's moving down the hill (as mentioned in the video) the buildings are taking damage. I beleive the current plan by the government is to abandon the village at some point. but of course that's not really well recieved by the inhabitants.
Agtualy the movement stabalised at 1.8m/j
And there are plans to make a drainage tunell to get thw water out of the slip zone
It was done bevore but i dont know on top of the head right now where
If the government wants to abandon the village, I'm sure the inhabitants aren't going to mind. As long as they're allowed to stay.
@Vojtěch Kareš They just want to see where it's going. On a serious note, we have entire Citys in quake zones. This waterslide movement is quite comparable.
If you want to see how this might take place, just look up Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA. It's the town with coal fire burning under it. Those that wanted to move out were paid for their houses, and those who didn't want to leave are under an agreement that once they pass away, those houses go to the government.
Also, the story on HOW the fire started and HOW the efforts to stop it when it was still possible to do so always came up a day late and dollar short are dark, grim, and comical.
@Vojtěch Kareš probably because people like their homes and so want to leave at the last minute rather than when it no longer is statistically financially viable. It's understandable that a village has more value to it's inhabitants than the pure financial value.
Tom: its not even a rock its this thing.
*shows a piece of the mountain literally next to road*
Me: *soils myself*
I just saw the article, that's I come back here
In the US I've noticed a change in the signage in rock fall areas from the traditional "Beware Falling Rocks" to "Beware Fallen Rocks". If I had to theorize, I suspect drivers watching the hillsides for rocks actively coming down were running into rocks already in the road which would be a far more common event. Thus, "fallen" is statistically a much higher risk than "falling".
Interesting, where I'm from (NY) there are a lot of road cuts where they blasted back the hill and frost definitely knows down lots of little pieces but fortunately the DOT actually pushed the cliffs far enough back to not need any of these signs or to clean up the road.
I do notice 1 sign on the Mass pike though and can't remember if its fallen or falling.
Obviously these are a different hazard to a large unstable gravel slope occasionally dropping massive boulders at 40mph (or however fast) like this town has or can be found in the Rockies.
We usually just have "Danger rock falls" in the UK. Covers both scenarios I suppose.
@@paddor To this European it seems strange how much text there is in North American road signs. When do people find the time to read all that, while still driving?
@@TheDukeOfWaltham I read automatically. Does that not happen for you? I don’t have to spend seconds peering at the sign, I see it and take in the information
@@heatherduke7703 Sure, I suppose common words and even phrases are processed much like images by the brain… Just a grouping of lines and shapes, taken in as a whole rather than read letter by letter.
Still, I would argue that proper images are more distinctive, and thus take up less of the driver's attention. Milliseconds count when it comes to reaction times. After all, that is why more countries nowadays seem to favour lowercase lettering in highway signage: capitals are blockier and look more alike.
"Mischievous kids would set it off"
*Mischievous kid proceeds to toss rock into the air*
@@ragnkja Mischieveously
a verified yotuber copyed you bruh
"RUclipsr" copied you
Arrrr...!
@@Humulator Imagine being so dumb that you didn't consider that 2 different humans are capable of coming to the same conclusion
Anyone just see the news of the huge rockfall yesterday?
I was just about to say. seems about time for part 2
As a Swiss guy, I really appreciate those well made videos about our little country. Thanks Tom! One could say rock solid work... I'll see myself out...
The pun quality has hit rock bottom..
@@aknopf8173 that's a stone cold fact
You profile picture rocks!
Agreed
You're rocking those jokes
Tom: "I feel like heavy rocks isn't getting the point across"
Tom: "This is one of the rocks"
Tom: *Shows boulder*
Me: "I think Tom forgot the word boulder"
I think I forgot it too. What was it again?
Or rather, if that is a rock up there, I would hate to see what a boulder is!
A large boulder the size of a small boulder
@@kosinusify How much is that in terms of hamburgers? Oder Fussballfeldern?
I like that boulder. That's a nice boulder.
Well, the road is gone now so I guess the sign isn't so important anymore!
This whole town was now evacuated. Authorities expect the mountain to come down within the next days.
"The hills are alive... with the sound of boulders"
*Rock'n'Roll
I love the random boulders dotted about the hill, they seem really peacefull even if they got there by rolling down a hill with enough force to tear down the walls of a house or pancake a car
Having driven past on just a week ago, I can confirm from my Dashcam movies that there are plenty of new boulders not in this video, including three big ones up against the grey shed that have crossed the road and not been removed, an plenty more that stopped below the tree line, and the big rock by the road have a 'smaller' one just behind it.
As of April 2023, the movement has accelerated and the town possibly has to be evacuated soon, as a large rockfall is getting more likely in the near future. That's sad news for such a cozy town and it's inhabitants, but i guess sort of expected with the rate of movement it already had, back when the video was shot.
an actual german phrase resembling "worst case scenario" would be the commonly used "im schlimmsten fall", meaning "in the worst case". Unfortunately there is no commonly spoken german noun (to my knowledge) for "worst case scenario", which is why the anglicism "worst-case-szenario" came into existence and is commonly used in german speaking countries today.
Gau?
@@pacisking I retract my statement! Gau and Combinations like "Horrorszenario" and "Katastrophenszenario" or "Desaster" could all work. Thanks!
@@FF-pv7ht exactly.. there are just too many german words I guess
Cultural symbiosis! The same way we say phrases like Schadenfreude, because there is no English version of that specific phrase.
@@leonhood914 "you _are getting enjoyment by watching someone suffer_ b"
WAIT,
that's Twitter users in a nutshell then...
there should be a light facing the hill, so that when there's a rockfall, there's a green light for the rocks to cross the road
Well, these are sensible, law abiding Swiss boulders, so that’d probably work!
Rocks aren't known to obey traffic signals, so you could raise some good revenue for the town if you put a red light camera there too.
@@lewiszim Na, these are SWISS rocks, they wouldn't dare run a red light!
@@lewiszim the think is, this would be a perfect advertisement for that small village and the valley it is located. (toursim)
I love it when Tom talks about Switzerland, the country I live in. It’s such a small country and it gets unnoticed all the time. But it has some very interesting things going on!
Yes same i live one town over from there. The people of Brienz are very stubborn and (somewhat understandably) dont want to abandon their village, even though its looking like they’ll just have to in the near future.
@@sandy-lo Salüüüü zämmmäääää
Unnoticed? You folk seem to be running the world nowadays. Or at least some people who meet in a Swiss resort beginning with D. and ending in S. are.
In fact, Switzerland was discovered by some intrepid British explorers in 1893.
FYI today there was a big rockslide, the village didn’t get hit tho but it was close
Loving the Germany/Austria/Switzerland content, Tom!
DACH
It’s always annoying when you have to wait for rocks to cross the road so you don’t hurt one of them
At least they tend to be quick about it.
Theres a road in switzerland where you regularely have to let airplanes pass, cause it's dividing a factory from it's landing strip
Rocks are like deer, or moose, or kangaroos: they tend to do *at least* as much damage to you as you do to them. Let those rocks pass in peace!
“Roses are dead”
“Violets are dying”
“Outside I’m smiling”
“But inside I’m crying”
“I just wish people would give my content a chance”
I don't mind waiting for the odd rock, it's when a whole family is crossing the road at the same time that I get annoyed.
And last night 500.000kg of rock fell down and the village is evacuated
The people who engineered this need to look at my local level crossing. It crosses a major A road which results in it being closed more than it is open. The barriers are down for a proven and documented 40 mins out of every hour, and they drop about 10 minutes before any train (which is several miles away) passes. It causes huge tailbacks at rush hour.
Whoa that's insane.
The closest level crossing here where I live in the Netherlands sees 8 trains an hour and is probably closed... 5-6 minutes per hour? If that long.
That's annoying, but different level of risk so they have to use different assumptions about allowing traffic through.
If somebody happens to wonder: The "Brienz" in this video is not the better known Brienz in the canton of Bern, but Brienz-Brinzauls in the canton of the Grisons, a tiny village near the Albula pass.
I know not what you are talking about, but thank you for the info, I'll google it and be wiser now.
Thank you :) They made me look 230 km away from the point of interest.
I thought "/" meant different spelling or dialect in " Brienz/Brinzauls" while it is in fact Brienz-Brinzauls.
@@Quetzalcoatlv3 The "-" does indeed mean different languages. Brienz is German, Brinzauls is Romansh.
Here you see the wild ancestors of your pet rocks making their, oftentimes, once in a lifetime relocation journey. As you can see, humans have moved in on these majestic form's land and have created a road across the boulder's path. A lone car has ignored the warning signs, the large boulder doesn't care. It flattens the small car as it continues along its downward journey.
It's so sad how people domesticated rocks and bread them into little tiny pet rocks. They're a mere shadow of their great ancestors.
Tyrannostonus Rock 🗿
The rocks are not the ones trespassing
**People explaining the seriousness of the falling rocks**
Me: Woa that grass is REALLY green!!
3:40 TIL Tom is a mischievous kid.
“Winter of Avalanches?!” What’s next? The “Spring of Meteor Impacts?” The “Summer of Hail Boulders?!”
Just a matter of time :p
Watch out next for the election of idiots! As old as time!
The Fall of Rocks… no, wait
Welcome to switzerland :)
There are rain seasons, tornado seasons, taifun seasons, why not avalanche season?
Am Austrian - can confirm: Other countries may have bears and wolves - in the alps you don't want to turn your back on the rocks
Here after a new huge rockfall made BBC news today, thought the town looked familiar!
It was indeed at this location. A major part of the wall came down eventually, but it missed the town. Just damaged a stable and some trees, and covered the road under 5m of rock. Ow, and the traffic light turned red.
Actually now (April, 2023) the hill is coming down so fast, that every inhabitant must be relocated.
Tom Scott sure brings information I never knew I would know.
And never knew I needed
This is another example of something I’m like “Why would you live there?!” And they’re just totally used to it. Kinda like some friends I made from California who didn’t understand why when the weather sirens went off I wanted to go for a drive and see what was going on.
well if you own a house there, imagine trying to sell it to move.
If you're renting there, then I imagine there's a VERY good reason why you would need to be there
houses do be expensive in switzerland.
If you own a house there you cant afford another one closeby or anywhere in switzerland sadly.
Except when ur rich af, but then you would have probably another house anyways.
Conversely, I live in California and some people are amazed that I would still live here, when they hear about how we get (small) earthquakes all the time.
I was under impression that the problem appeared rather suddenly
Like people living on a volcano.
I appreciate that Wahlen, while speaking english, sometimes randomly pronounces words which are loanwords in German with more accent, very relatable.
We live in the mountains and the only road to the city is on the mountainside. The road is about 3kms long with lots of curves. There used to be these 'falling rocks' signs everywhere.
The funny thing is that these signs were always damaged by falling rocks. So much so that now they gave up on putting up new signs.
On the bright side, Nature has been very kind. I can remember only one case of death due to falling rocks in 25+ yrs.
"Winter of Avalanches" is my favorite Norwegian metal band.
I hope someone takes a picture from the same spot every year, so in the future it will be possible to see a timelapse of the village sliding with 1.5 meters/frame.
But the spot that the picture is taken from would also be sliding alongside the village.
@@dolebiscuit So then you do it with a drone
@@beatall3 you do it with a high res camera from a spot that's far away enough to not be affected by movement
You could try to see if Google Earth Timelapse is able to capture precisely this. My line is hiccoughing at the moment, and isn't rendering the maps.
@@beatall3 And tether that drone to a specific set of coordinates, which should mean that it will be taken from the exact spot every time.
The town is in the news again, village evacuated 😢
Imagine being the crew in charge of fixing the road everytime one falls.
“Falling rocks” signs should never ever be ignored.
Most of the time their installation is pointless, which dilutes their severity. Falling rocks signs should never be posted in areas where they are safe to ignore.
What do you do when you see a falling rock sign? Slow down so you don't crash into one that has fallen or speed up so you are somewhere else when it lands on the spot where you would have been if you had slowed down?
@@BrianBell4073 get off the road
@@eyemoisturizer well at that point you just close the road entirely if that’s the signs message
@@eyemoisturizer I hope you aren't in charge of teslas autopilot
Imagine your whole village being hunted down by a hill that also throws rocks at you.
That's a fairytale premise right there.
A very *slow* hunt, too. The slower hunts are usually the more horrifying. Can you imagine a glacier hunting down your great-great-great grandchildren over some slight you did decades ago?
You did it Tom! another awesome fascinating illuminating stimulating video!
Motorists: "Great, we're safe!"
The guy who mows the grass at the bottom of the cliff:
"Ground meteors are not real, they cant hurt you"
Ground meteors:
Ah yes, a funny copy and paste joke I've been seeing for the last 3 years. Peak comedy!
Ground meteors doing barrel roll to avoid fall damage!
As someone who lives in the Rocky Mountains, ground meteors are indeed real.
At least they won't kill the dinosaurs again... I hope
@@NotSomeOrdinaryGuy i never read this joke before thiu