Death by Mega Traffic Jam │ Snowstorm HORROR in Murree 

Hi folks! just wanted to add to this to say that on the Friday, locals did take in tourists into their homes and even trekked out to provide food & blankets on the Saturday, the locals did more than the government!

The hotel owners who upcharged everyone are absolutely vile. So many lives could have been saved if they weren't so greedy.

Gotta love how tragedy brings out the absolute worst in hotel and store owners in this story. There's times like these when you as a hotel or store owner can really make a difference in a horrible situation like this by giving families with babies or small children or elderly that don't have money free rooms or blankets or supplies, but sadly not all people care about their fellow man and would rather benefit financially from others suffering, very sad.

I am from Murree and I am happy that you have made a video on this tragedy. I was in Murree that day. We local people did our best to help the people trapped in the snow. And keep them safe. Helped to reach places.One thing you should remember is that hotel owners are not 90% local

It's amazing to see events like this in non-US and non-Europe regions covered. There are a lot of channels that cover disaster events, but they all don't give a lot of attention to other countries where a lot of bad shit happens. Great work!

Families should've rented a room or two all together and just slept on the floor, would be cheaper with everyone pitching in :( this is so sad, especially the greed that caused this as well. Raising prices for people that are desperate is just cruel

I wonder what would happen if you just sat in the hotel lobby being like “I’ll leave when you force me to” I mean, unless they had their own security, what were they going to do? Call the police?

Pro tip from a Canadian: always keep a tin can with a roll of TP and a full bottle of rubbing alcohol and matches. In this situation. Dump the bottle of alcohol onto the TP in the can and light it. It’ll stay lit for 8-12 hrs and keep the inside of your car above freezing.

Visited Muree a lot as a kid, one of the most beautiful hill town in Pakistan. Didn't know this Happened, inshallah Allah gives them a space in heaven.

I was driving from Chicago to Nashville this past March and while driving through Kentucky, it began to snow, and I mean snow. It was shocking how fast it came on, just like described in the video. I was prepared for a long, slow night of driving, but there were absolute idiots passing me at insane speeds of 70+ mph and knew there was going to be an accident. I will never pull off to the side of a highway in conditions like this. You couldn't even see the lines, you are almost guaranteed to be run into by someone. I crawled to the nearest exit and got off, spent the night in my car. I was warm, had snacks and drinks from the 24 hr gas station and was safe.

Sad story, I live in Russia in Siberia, for me those conditions are usual, but for Pakistan it was an unexpected extreme situation, and "unexpected" is the main problem. In summer we have temperatures about 20-30 degrees Celsius and very rarely close to 35. In winter time it's often between minus 20 to minus 30 degrees Celsius, but sometimes close to minus 40. So, we are good in dealing with different weather conditions (not really good in extreme heat though). Firstly, we siberians are not who do not afraid of cold, but those who dresses appropriately to weather conditions, this is the most important rule. Secondly, you must be prepared, take some food and water, take a lighter with axe and rope, have simple spare parts for your car with you. It's simple and everybody knows it in Russia (but of course there are some people who think they don't need to follow these rules and every year a couple of those dies in Yakutia region, which is a little bit to the east from Siberia and it can be colder than minus 50 degrees Celsius there easily). I wrote a lot and it might be not clear for many, since I haven't been practicing English for years, but always be prepared guys! Take a couple of minutes to explore the region where you planning to go, explore the road in google maps or other app, have all the gear you need and might need. Learn on the mistakes of others and on such unfortunate tragedies, don't try to make a new tragedy just because you unprepared for weather. For thousands of years people were trying to study the laws of nature, don't disappoint our ancestors.

I can’t believe this is such a recent event yet I hadn’t heard about it. Thank you covering it and doing so respectfully. You’ve earned a new subscriber!

The up charges at the shops and hotels are so disgusting! I was stuck in Snowmageddon in Atlanta in 2014 in my car for 13 hours trying to make a 40 minute trip home from work. It was traumatizing! People abandoned their cars at certain points because they ran out of gas to stay warm and certain parts of the interstate you could see cities and try to walk if you weren’t too far. The stores and hotels would’ve never had done something like this EVER here! If anything they gave things for free.

my family in pakistan lives near murree so seeing you cover smth so close to home is such a pleasant shock. this was such a tragedy ):

Terribly sad incident. That was my concern once you said they fell asleep. CO is a big concern if your vehicle gets stuck in a snowstorm. I've lived where it does snow and keep a compact shovel as a precaution. Not to necessarily dig out the car, but to keep the exhaust clear. This is clearly a case of extreme weather naivete.

as a pakistani who enjoys your videos very much i was surprised to see this in my notifications! love when channels like yours cover non US or UK centric disasters ^^ another well made video!!

I live in Colorado, USA, which is a state well known for snow and our ski resorts. But even here, where we all keep “winter packs” in our cars, bad things happen. We were hit with a “bomb cyclone” about 5 years ago. Within a couple of hours several feet of snow had fell but that wasn’t the problem. The problem was that it came with winds in excess of 100mph, way worse than a normal blizzard. Trees were snatched straight out of the ground and you could only see a foot in front of you. Cars were trapped on the interstate for hours and the winds were so high that 18-wheeler trucks were literally being blown over on their sides. Snow cats couldn’t even get to the ones trapped.

I've been stuck in a car in a white-out blizzard not knowing when or if rescue was coming. It is genuinely terrifying, especially if, like me, you're not used to that much snow. Having to repeatedly get out and clear my exhaust pipe, knowing that if I didn't I'd literally die like these people, was awful.

Dude a lot of places in the world would have opened up their lobbies and stores to shelter people. What the heck is wrong with this town?? Edit: As someone from a place that is often threatened by hurricanes, this is just sad. I’ve met some of the nicest people when we lost electricity and the one time that the house was flooded and we couldn’t stay in it.

just recently came across your channel, was expecting to find yet another monotone commentator droning on about an incident i had already heard of a million times before, but instead was delightfully surprised when your content was the perfect style for what i love in true horror!

Where I’m from, we actually have arms that lock across the highway to close roadways in severe inclement weather. It closes it off as close to the nearest city/larger municipality as possible so that people who can’t turn around have a safe place to bunk down with the highest likelihood of having access to resources.

Survival experts say if you have even a small tea light candle it will keep you warm enough til rescue, after watching this I bought my son a pack to leave in his cars emergency box, keep up the good work your doing. X😎🐘

that's so disturbingly sad. there was a hotel and food stores and they rise the prices and outside people are dying. I can't believe this greed for money is more important than human lifes. I feel so sad for all the people who died that day. :( I would have invited them all to sleep in the lobby and cook some pasta. life isn't about earning the most money as possible. why not give something back at only one day of your life, when you were granted the chance to do actually something really good, when people are really in need? what has humanity become at some places of the world? :(

As far as I remember those people were prosecuted . Their licenses were cancelled and stores closed by the government. I hope others could learn a lesson from all this. If you’re not used to a kind of weather , don’t go there without learning how to survive if something happens. Never take risks. Stay home in bad weather . Above all, help others in need.

Michigan here...weather changes quickly. We've had storms where ppl were stranded on highways.

On the theme of weather disasters getting a lot of people caught by surprise, maybe you could cover the floods in western Europe in 2021. While a lot of the places got the time to prepare once the threat was mostly reduced to a coming surge of water, there were a lot of places that got caught by surprise with a highway full of cars flooding, part of a town being erased from the earth in a landslide, and many many towns and villages getting caught in the surging waters. Not to mention a death toll unacceptable for a disaster that pretty much announced itself beforehand.

I mean it really highlights the difference in mentality between the east and west. I couldn’t imagine hotel owners in Colorado for example, up charging people in the middle of a disaster, basically telling them to screw off back to their car to die.. you know what I mean, very scummy

I can't believe they didn't turn around, the store owners and innkeepers should have been prosecuted. I'm reminded of what I learned from my parents ever since I remember. They always stored several thick blankets, snacks, and water(Dad would keep a gallon inside the car) in the trunk of our car, and I did the same with my first vehicle on. I never heard personally of anyone who froze in their car, but they passed the habit on of 'just in case' and I have used the blankets more than once.

You find the most interesting stories ryan. Love the content

I'm in the midst of a MAJOR binge of your episodes. Stellar stuff. You're helping me get through some tough stuff. Love your scripting, research, thoughtful approach and editing style. I also really love the wide variety of tragedy tales available. Keep going! ❤

In the late 70's, I lived in Tehran, Iran. It used to snow out of the blue for now reason. People would always get stuck somewhere in the snow. Either just driving to work or to some festival. The really odd thing was when a truck (lorry) would get stuck in the snow, the driver would start a fire under the engine to thaw out and warm up his engine. Seeing dozens of fires under vehicles is a little disconcerting.

As soon as you said they tried to turn the heat on, I knew it was going to be carbon monoxide poisoning. So sad

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Thanxx for making a video abt it. I really wondered what happened to the victims. It was just awful when i heard the news last yr. 😞 Terrible businessmen.

I was caught on a motorway in 1999 due to heavy snowfall. Trucks were blocking the road (motorway) as they slided downhill on certain passages and vertically stopped. Keeping the engine running (heating) was no option as the car only had a 40 liter tank. A car on idle consumes 1 l/hr. Thankfully the german automobile club came along with motorcycles and distributed hot tea and blankets (for free). It took me 11 hours for a 300km ride to get home. No casualties. Small hint: keep a blanket and cookies in your car. And - eat snow if necessary. It is water…

God, those hotel and store owners absolutely disgust me. How can you see your fellow humans beings, children, suffering like that and not only not do everything you can to help, but actually take advantage of them for a bit of cash?? How? Those dumpster fire human beings have blood on their hands.

Those people just wanted to go enjoy a change of scenery, probably many w/their children & probably many w/their elder family members all who were especially vulnerable to the elements. It must have been a terrifying ordeal. Poor people.🌹❤

Oh no! I forgot I watched all your videos. Keep them coming please. Many people can't wait for these. Thanks for the work

This is extremely upsetting, and heartbreaking, that in such a tragedy, people can be so cruel for rubies. Hopefully, they were held accountable. So many lives could’ve been saved. And so many people failed.

snow'll getcha, people who live in hot areas see the christmas movies and think its neat but as little as 1 hour outside in the snow will give you frostbite, and the beginning of hypothermia side note: at 1:46 the map gives its opinion about islam

Reading that title gave me instant goosebumps. Been subbed to you for a while and didn't expect to see this here. My family was literally planning on visiting Murree at that time but I was the one that advised against it.

look forward to this every week keep this going dude nice work!

and to this day the same hotel is probably still in business. what if all of them people stormed that hotel like the storm overwhelmed them. what's even worse is that they would all be arrested.

They wanted to see snow. They saw snow.

Pretty pumped to watch this new vid

Glad I just stumbled upon your channel…I see many nights of bingeing your older content. Great work!

Thanks for another great video Ryan! Would love to see more snow stories. 🙂

I feel like there is use to be found "in blaming." The only way to prevent having tragedies happen again and again is by identifying who was... well... to blame.

Cool new style, liking it ❤️

Wow. Horrific. May their souls rest in peace. Tangentially, I had no idea how beautiful Pakistan is geographically. Snowy mountains on one side, deserts on the other. Thank you for thoughtfully encapsulating this story.

Hi! Thank you for covering this case. I am from Pakistan. I must acknowledge your research about the area was spot on. A devastating tragedy which you covered in a nice manner.

Your videos are brilliant. Informative and well worded. Thank you. Keep up the good work!

0:17 What a happy little channel

I'm from the upper peninsula of Michigan and I can tell you, the cold is no joke. We've welcomed strangers into our homes during bad weather. I can remember being a kid in the 80s and more than once we had strangers sleeping in our living room for days sometimes during horrible snow storms. People freeze to death easily, or die in other ways during these storms and it's no joke. Then again, this is Michigan, not Pakistan.

This was so sad🙏 I remember seeing this when it first happened. I have vlogger subscribers who immediately got this out on RU-vid and I watched the entirety of it. It was such a time for mourning.

I have been watching this channel before I go to sleep I love this guy

The hotel owners truly should be held responsible to a certain degree, And before anybody freaks out and comments that I'm an idiot, I don't mean charge them with murder but they should be charged with negligence or something.

I Visit Muree every summer with friends and when news broke out about this incident the whole country was outraged of negligence from authorities and business owners in muree. It was even jammed up at the start of august during peak summer days but this time the authorities managed it more efficiently. I had a chance to meet up some locals and hotel owners in this trip and realised it was just a few hotels and shops who did this especially in the vicinity of the traffic jam, many locals did help around people.

You find really new stories! Keep it up!

During heavy snowstorms always keep your vehicle exhaust clear. Also keep any intake and exhaust pipes or vents for your home heating systems. Keeping some emergency candles, matches and a lighter, a few of the thin emergency space blankets and a pair of scissors in your vehicle can save your life. The heat from a candle can actually help to keep you warm, space blankets help you retain body heat. In a worst case scenario you can cut up portions of your vehicles interior with scissors to use seat padding and material to insulate yourself, make foot coverings, etc. A few items that will fit in your glove box or console storage could save you. Add some energy bars and a gallon of water and you up your odds of survival.

I am so glad you covered this! I might never have known about it otherwise. I do not know much about Pakistan and what weather is usually like there, but I will say I live in the far south of Canada (like if you went across on a map I'd only be about 3 hours north of Barcelona) in an area that has a lot of very diverse pockets of weather because of it's continental geography that causes a lot of storms that tend to concentrate over some areas and not others - creating pockets of relatively heavy snow and cold while the next town over might have no snow and be above freezing. And I do wonder if the mountains and continental climate cause a similar effect in Pakistan, perhaps even worse. So I totally get how people just wouldn't know there was that much snow and would get caught. It is very sad. And also very sad no one gave them somewhere to stay. I would like to think that perhaps they just did not know it would get that cold and that exhausts would end up covered...I would like to think they would have been hospitable and kinder if they thought there was a chance the storm was deadly,

Finally, some non-Western-centric event stories! Love it! Wonderful!

Okay, I'm gonna need some more content here soon. I've watched them all and I'm already hooked! 😂

Thankyou for featuring my dad's homeland.

Under those circumstances, I would hope at least a few people helped themselves to a free room for the night and told the owners to take it up with the cops.

Let's goooooooo , hope everyone is blessed 🙌

Love all your videos you maniac. Great idea forward channel ;)

Sad situation ..good coverage ❤ thank you

Whenever I'm heading up to the hills in winter, my car always has sleeping bag(s), spare clothing/blankets, tinned food, and water. It's actually a big estate car and I don't have kids, so could comfortably camp in it for quite a few days. Not everyone has that much comfort, but should still take the above items so at least you survive.

It's so sad that the business owners denied life-saving services to these vulnerable people. If anything they should have made their services even more affordable and they would have probably made a great profit whilst also helping those in need. I feel like they were partially responsible for this tragedy, I hope they were reprimanded in some way.

This is such a truly sad situation. This is why you should ALWAYS, ALWAYS, during the winter months, keep your cars stocked with extra blankets, pillows, water bottles, and protien bars, snacks, beef jerky, & MRE's...& even small packets of instant coffee and hot cocoa. I would also suggest having a cord of firewood and firestarter sticks. I also keep flares and I'm planning to get a solar powered charger station, so we can charge up our phones in case of emergency. My ex-husband was a trained Forestry Ranger in Oregon, and he has a saying, "I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it." That's SO TRUE!!!

Just sad all round those poor children

Wow. I didn't know about this and promptly read the available reports and information. Weather warnings were essentially nonexistent, the roads should've been closed two days prior to the incident, parked snow removal equipment in ways that blocked more traffic and didn't staff them, no disaster planning or response meetings occurred even after officials were warned, there were still consistent tourism advertisements urging people to come up despite the ongoing storm, no traffic control whatsoever, the hotels in the area are owned almost entirely by people or corporations with little connection to the local community, all tied together with the fact that lower elevations in the areas rarely see more than dusting of snow, like Islamabad and Rawalpindi, so folks heading out may or may not have known the dangers of CO2 in cars. This was an utter and complete failure of estsblished warning systems. Looks like 15 people were removed from their government positions after the report came out and they changed some of the infrastructure and emergency response policies due to the disaster.

Thank you Tragedy Tales.

Being one of those stuck there on that night, i can tell u it was way worse, there were those who weren't properly dressed up for the weather n their limbs became blackish n started bleeding from the extreme cold. It was horrific, in the morning when bodies started coming in it was truly an sad sight...

Stories like this one make me wish for something like karma to really exist because that would mean that those horrible excuses for human beings are royally FUCKED.

That's the thing with snow. A bit is lovely, a lot can be a problem, and too much will likely end in disaster. People just tend to underestimate it. Horrible thing to happen though, the Hotel owners are the worst! Though, really, who travels to a region with forecasted blizzards to see snow? Also, how the heck did 2 woman die, but 10 men and 10 children? How does that add up lmao

Great job great channel thanks for all the great content

Such a sad story told so brilliantly

Listening to a story about a snowstorm with 33° C oustide. 😁

I cant believe those hotel owners 😱🥺 my dad always told me "if its within your power/authority to help, do it" especially when it comes to human life..

I was subscribed when this channel had 67.7k subs. Just want to mark that down before this channel hits a million subs.

I moved to Canada from Ireland as a child. I thought the snow was AMAZING. Snowballs, sledding, snowmen. So great. Then I grew up. Heavy snow is a nightmare. Plunging temps are horrifying. Walking anywhere in the thick of winter is difficult. Driving can be dangerous. (But also the drivers can be dangerous). Every year it's like people forget how to drive in winter, going too fast or just taking sharp turns. Snow is amazing when you've never seen it. But living in it is hard and must be prepared for.

It's unfortunate that you did not mention how some of business owners took in people free of charge when the snowstorm came, your blanket statement paints a bad picture for those that are good in this situation.

Normal people: There's a catastrophe right in front of my door. I will bring food and blankets and maybe get my guest room prepared to save at least the kids from the cold. These people: So I heard I can squeeze money out of frightened, freezing families.

This is heartbreaking. But great content. New sub

It's such a shame that people thought more of their own greed than humanity. R. I. P 22 🙏💔❤

People who are profitting from tragedies are completely inhumane. They sat on their rich asses in the warm room, eating their delicious food while other people including kids was outside in storm, hungry, thirsty, slowly freezing to death. It's so sad...

Nice video minus the politics.

42 seconds in. I'm liking it. Great job.

The hotel owners should be held accountable for all 22 deaths they are beyond disgusting raising their prices like that in a Blizzard

Vermont laughs hard.

In good countries, people come together. In Pakistan, they upped the prices putting people at risk for money. Never will I visit that place

Alertistan is the best name they could have chosen for their national alert system lol

I seriously hope the ones price gouging people in a disaster situation were charged with some sort of crime. I was in the Houston area during hurricane Katrina and remember having to choose between being filling up my tank of gas and eating because so many stores were price gouging people attempting to get to safety. It is a crime that should be set on the similar level of manslaughter.

See what greed does! Absolutely disgusting from the Hotel people!

prices of hotels went up because they had a bit of an overdemand problem. otherwise they just would have rented to all the people [they're a business, it's a win win], i think it's safe to assume that there wasn't room for 2000 people in hotel rooms lol.

Well explained with a little background about muree.

Can you make some new cave videos soon? I have seen all of your cave videos and would love more. *Edit" keep up the great work!!!

Great video, sad story .