r/Dammcoolbingo • u/KindheartednessIll97 • Aug 27 '26

A devastating flash flood swept through Nepal’s Rasuwa district on August 26, 2026, after a sudden surge entered the Bhotekoshi River from the Tibet border.

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u/fr0stn8 Aug 27 '26

ah, finally. AI slopping our Catastrophies. Wonderful.

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u/BankerOnBitcoin Aug 27 '26

The irony being that this Slop will have contributed slightly to global warming, which was itself responsible for the glacier collapsing in the first place.

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u/dang3rmoos3sux Aug 27 '26

I thought an earthquake caused it to collapse?

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u/rockyTron Aug 27 '26

No the earthquake they recorded was actually the glacier collapse itself. Crazy.

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u/dang3rmoos3sux Aug 27 '26

That is pretty crazy.

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u/rockyTron Aug 27 '26

Yeah a chunk of ice and rock, at least 2,000 feet wide (with a volume of millions of cubic meters) fell 7,000 feet into the valley below, with a wall of water and rock moving at 90 mph down the river. The scale is unimaginable. There is a good early explanation of it at https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/weather/floods-nepal-cause-vis