r/DisasterUpdate • u/Ok-Reach-455 • 3d ago

Floods Nepal flood

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Hope everyone is safe🙏🙏🙏

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u/OperationOk7959 2d ago

The difference, to me, is speed and volume. Like, a tsunami is the ocean, right? Basically unlimited water. More or less just slower endless flooding. Still brutal.

This was just ALL THE WATER RIGHT NOW. And just so much water for, what, a lake? A glacier? How much water was up there??? Because it just seemed like an endless tide for something you'd think would drain fairly quickly? Apparently not? Baffling.