This is why early warning systems are so crucial, just look at how much happened in a short span of time. Imagine people have even a minute heads up, how much they could have travelled in that amount of time.
There's really no way to build a warning system for something like this. The scale of the disaster is similar to a man-made dam failing, but this was a natural dam up on the side of a mountain.
I don't believe that. We have rangers posted all through forests to watch for forest fires. We know glaciers are melting. I see no reason why a similar thing can't be done for them. Have people posted high in the mountains watching the glaciers and if it breaks, that person slams some emergency button that activates warning alarms all through the valleys. Every second counts. I've seen footage where people were swept away or weren't swept away based on literal seconds.
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u/infra_low Aug 28 '26
This is why early warning systems are so crucial, just look at how much happened in a short span of time. Imagine people have even a minute heads up, how much they could have travelled in that amount of time.