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Real Survival Stories

Flood in Myanmar: Hidden Dangers

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Documentary, Society & Culture, Wilderness, Sports, History

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A charity worker in the mountains of Myanmar is caught in a devastating flood. Joel Hofmann spends his days working with locals, trying to make life here easier if he can. But when a tropical typhoon unleashes destruction on their quiet town, he and his brother will find themselves thrust into mayhem. Doing their best to lend a hand, they’ll face collapsing buildings, hidden hazards and utter confusion. And when the flood cuts off their only route home, the stakes are raised once again… A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins. Written by Joe Viner | Produced by Ed Baranski | Assistant Producer: Luke Lonergan | Exec produced by Joel Duddell | Sound Supervisor: Tom Pink | Sound design by Matt Peaty | Assembly edit by Rob Plummer | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: Ralph Tittley. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at support@noiser.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:33.2

It's September 11th, 2024.

0:37.2

In the Shan province of eastern Myanmar, a small mountain town

0:41.3

is slowly disappearing beneath a torrent of brown floodwater.

0:45.3

The local river, swelled by days of torrential rain, has burst its banks.

0:52.3

It now spills outwards, forming an unbridgeable swath that

0:56.8

surges through the town. Buildings, entire streets, are swept away as the ground beneath their

1:04.3

concrete foundations dissolves into liquid mud. Trees are uprooted and sucked downstream, branches thrashing like drowning limbs.

1:13.6

In the churning mass, bulky items tumble and swirl.

1:18.6

Tuck tucks and motorcycles, brick walls and chain-link fences, items of furniture and household belongings.

1:25.6

All are borne along by the fierce current.

1:28.3

In the chaos, terrified townspeople seek refuge.

1:34.3

Some huddle on the few remaining rooftops still visible above the water.

1:39.3

Others shimmy up telephone poles or string together life rafts out of plastic bottles and rope.

1:46.0

A few, meanwhile, have been left with no choice but to pit their own strength against that of the flood and swim for their lives.

1:56.0

Among them, a 26-year-old Joel Hoffman and his brother Silas.

2:03.3

The two men struggle against the deluge, fighting to keep their heads above the rampaging,

2:07.7

debris-filled water.

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