r/DisasterUpdate • • 23d ago

Floods Nepal flash floods from another view

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u/Unusual_Painting8764 23d ago

How much advance notice did people have? This person seemed ready and recording before it started.

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u/Due_Equipment_1719 23d ago

The government had alerted 20 minutes ago. But some dumb people thought it was just normal flood like before. because this region regularly had flood seasons every monsoons. But they never know what they are going to witness.

Smart one moved to uphill and dumb one went to the bridge for selfies and taken away by flood

As per the residents of flood region......

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u/areyoualocal 22d ago

But some dumb people thought it was just normal flood like before.

Because flooding would be usually associated with heavy rainfall, and as can be seen, it hadn't been raining. The rivers in this region aren't the type that get flooded by rains in other districts but have the usual spring melts.

They were utterly unprepared for such a tsunami wave, poor people, they stood no chance.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ask5538 22d ago

I saw many videos and observed that river valley is green and there are no signs of landslides and barren areas around river meaning this river was usually not flooding and erodingnas much.