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> ""We also know that the velocity of the water flow must have been more than 300 kilometres an hour."

I'm not sure how to visualize this.

A snow avalanche is probably the closest thing you can see today.

Try to find one where it hits trees and see what it does to them, otherwise it's hard to really see the scale and force.

I feel like the friction against the air would be enough to cause tornadoes.