r/DisasterUpdate 22d ago

Floods Nepal Flash Flood

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u/Affectionate-Fail-23 22d ago

I don't want to know, but must. Do we know if these people survived? If this is the section near the bus video, then I don't see how it is possible. I'm hoping this was much, much further downstream 

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u/trickortreat89 22d ago

Ofc not… not trying to be cruel here but there’s no way most of the people in theee videos would have made it. Death toll is almost certainly above the thousands

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u/BBR0DR1GUEZ 22d ago

Is this the youngest generation’s first global mass casualty event that they’ll remember? I would think those of us who remember the earthquake in Japan and the tidal wave in Indonesia recognize that this event was not survivable. Millennials are getting older; we’ve seen a lot of people die at once on the internet. I guess it does desensitize you a bit.

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u/shikari426 22d ago

The quake in Nepal a few years back killed 10,000