These Wild Pictures Of An Entire Swiss Town Buried By A Glacier Are Going Super, Super Viral

I’m sure you’ve seen the pictures on social media of the town of Blatten in Switzerland completely covered by a mudslide from a melting glacier.

According to the BBC, the 300-person town was evacuated a few days prior to the disaster because geologists said the glacier was “unstable.”

Here’s a sattelite picture of the town before:

They also said that in 2022 and 2023, Swiss glaciers lost 10 percent of their water volume.

The BBC warns that all of the Swiss glaciers could be gone this century.

One woman told Reuters she couldn’t talk about the disaster, saying, “I lost everything yesterday. I hope you understand.”

USA Today reports the mayor of Blatten told reporters at a press conference, “We’ve lost our village. The village is under rubble. We will rebuild.”