This Existed: Watch A House Crash Into a Bridge Over A Flooded River

In yet another sign of the crowd-sourcing times, a CNN iReporter captured some eye-popping footage of a house floating down the Conestoga River in Millersville, Pennsylvania, as several others take cellphone video of the scene mere inches from the teeming flood waters.

“Oh my god, that was a house!” an onlooker exclaims as the remnants of the house crashes into a bridge.

After cautioning his companions to “get off the bridge,” the cameraman describes the scene, “It might have been part of, or an addition to a house. You could tell it was some sort of room. […] Before the [structure] came down, there was a T.V., and R.V. trailer that also hit the bridge. There was a lot of debris coming down the river.”

Wet weather has triggered widespread flooding in the Northeast, and according to the iReporter who recorded the effects of the deluge, “Millersville received upwards of five inches of rain over eight hours the evening prior.” Additionally, the Conestoga River was predicted to crest and reach its second highest level ever.

While videos like this are compelling in a way that traditional news reports are not, they fail at providing the human context, and the crowd-sourcing trend also leads people to do less-than-intelligent things like gawking at a house as it crashes into the bridge they’re standing on.

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