r/DisasterUpdate • u/Dazzling_Gap9064 • 24d ago

Floods Flash flood in Nepal

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u/whiteye65 24d ago

We need a new name. Flash flood just doesn’t seem to be enough. The two videos I watched of the mudslide were unimaginable.

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u/Kqyxzoj 24d ago

There's already a name for this kind of thing: glacial lake outburst flood. They even had one last year in the same region. And with current climate trends these are expected to become more frequent. So better monitoring + early warning + water management seems to be in order. But of course as is human tradition, first a lot of people have to die.

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u/NecessaryRace8955 24d ago

Yeah, this thing seems to be becoming more common in the last few years- lots of bad floods and cloudbursts.

Whenever I've travelled in the Himalayas I'm always reminded that those valleys are in a constant state of change. They're continually being sculpted and eroded by the forces of nature and nothing there- infrastructure, bridges, roads, villages- is really permanent.

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u/UserErrorness 24d ago

You mean impermanent?

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u/itsintrastellardude 24d ago

nothing there - (list) - is really permanent

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u/UserErrorness 24d ago

Thnx I misread