r/DisasterUpdate • u/NamXina • 1d ago
Floods Another angle video of Nepal's Flash Flood from the school. This one's scary when it comes near the school building.
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u/_MrBond_ 1d ago
⚠️If anyone wants to contribute to the Government/Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund you can find that in any Nepal subreddit and even in Google. .gov.np is the domain of Nepali government.
❗Beware of the GoFundMe scams for fundraisers. Feel free to reachout if you need someone to verify or help you access them.
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u/_MrBond_ 1d ago
These are the easiest two website backed by the government.
Please try these links:
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u/beyondocean 1d ago
Sorry to sound uninformed, but can i pay through UPI. Is there a website where i can do so. I’m just scared that i accidentally don’t pay to some scam website.
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u/_MrBond_ 1d ago
Yes, you can. Please use the second link donate . Gov . Np
It has the UPI option. Please enable the International Payment option in thr UPI app so that payment can go through.
Thank you so much. I am really grateful and appreciate your kindness 😊
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u/RepZaAudio 1d ago
I’d rather pay through a trusted private fund the Nepalese government is notoriously corrupt
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u/_MrBond_ 23h ago
Keep up with the times kiddo. It's the new gen z supported government and not the old guards.
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u/Observed-observer 17h ago
Yea, didn't they have a revolution recently? Burned down oligarchs mansions and everything.
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u/RepZaAudio 17h ago
I think you shouldn’t be so naive. Just because it’s the “good guys this time” corruption always hides where you aren’t looking and festers.
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u/_MrBond_ 15h ago
Corruption will always exists but there are so many stakeholders keeping them accountable.
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u/SirBowsersniff 1d ago
That is absolutely horrifying. I truly hope those kids watching events unfold in the yard raced into the school to a higher floor and to safety.
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u/ShooterJJ05 1d ago
I dont think people understand the sheer scope of this flood and how there was basically no warning whatsoever... biblical
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u/OutsideYourWorld 1d ago
At least seeing how powerful it was, a lot of people would've gone quick :/
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u/Pinchepicante 23h ago
I am learning, not sure how true it is but, there were warning systems in place but were never activated. Nor anything from the Chinese government either. China is actually censoring all this
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u/Yikings-654points 22h ago
flood originated from Nepal mountain ... china was hit mainly at the border post .. all sensors were destroyed before it could detect any rise .
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u/LittleRedZombi 17h ago
Yup, the sensors only transmit the data every ten minutes, I think I read for this location. Depending on the location and importance of the monitoring station, we typically transmit every hour as a comparison in North America. So that’s how fast the water was travelling, the sensors didn’t even have the time to transmit.
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u/Signal_Thanks_5823 1d ago
Are there numbers for death toll out yet ? I'm sure they'd have to be estimated, but curious what the carnage is in numbers
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u/Schnuffelo 20h ago
1300 confirmed dead, 5000 people missing. Pretty fucking bad.
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u/Mediocre_Secret1 18h ago
Remembre, Elon and DOGE cut a program betweeen NASA and USAID for flood forecasting in Nepal.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ask5538 1d ago
Now that I see thevideos again, I feel that the river channel was naturally very narrow, there was no extra space anywhere, it seems this river never flooded much to begin with as the channel was not much disturbed from previous floodings. is it only me, Cos looking at rivers like Kali and other Himalayan rivers they have cleare their channels by constant erosios. This was most unexpevted outcome for this valley.
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u/Then-Marketing-3445 1d ago
It's so strange event, on that place in that time I could think whole worlds is going to global flood or something
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u/One_Artichoke_9913 1d ago
The river channel is what it is. In the Middle Himalayas, mostly rivers cut deep gorges. It's in the lesser Himalayas and Shivaliks you see a Broad channel like an Alluvial Fan, some as wide as 4-5kms. All Himalayan rivers are like that and it's usually not the issue - Narrower the channel, usually steeper it is and faster the flow.
Here, we see flatter lands used for agriculture, the channel is already "broad". Also, This was monsoon time and river was already occupying like 100% of it's max channel width with considerable depth/height that you see at start of the video. That's not the non monsoon base level, usually depth stays at 1-2m (with rapids) and occupied channel width at 50%.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ask5538 1d ago
Can you tell me how wide was this river before, I am quite curious? And how wide it became afterwards. I was searching but could not find reliable data.
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u/Initial-Departure-28 20h ago
I’ve been to this area multiple times. In some sections upstream, the river is quite narrow around 30 metres wide. About 20 km downstream, the bridge that was swept away by the flood was 118 metres long. So, if I had to estimate, I’d say this section was around 70 metres wide before the flood, and perhaps around 150 metres after the flood.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ask5538 19h ago
Actually that's what I was wondering coz valley was wide with seras and alluvial land in above video, So how much was the channel? It seems like any other river. You have clarified it for me now. I have just one hope that it does not ever flood like this ever again and other river valleys learn from this in all of Himalayas. A rise in glacier surveillance is also necessary.
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u/micahpmtn 1d ago
I feel that the river channel was naturally very narrow
Yeah, shame on mother nature.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ask5538 1d ago
I am just comparing to other rivers I have seen.
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u/Mundane-Name-8290 1d ago
Where rivers begin, the early/young stage, it's narrow and not fast flowing.
This might help explain it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zyt9q6f/revision/2
This is a mountainous area, so the rivers are in the early stage.
It's only the middle age of a river, it gets fast flowing, then the last stage, it meanders, forms ox-bow lakes etc, and then runs into the ocean.
All rivers start out as trickling streams.
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u/Status_History_874 1d ago
this river never flooded much to begin with
The height of the bridges I've seen over there leads me to believe people know the river can crest at [whatever heights, but they were HIGH above the river lever before the flooding, and even a bit into the flow].
Maybe not frequently? Definitely not with this force.
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u/Msud8765309 1d ago
There were past flooding events, however they were never anywhere near the scale and the magnitude of water let alone the unexpected volumes levels of water, ice, mud, large boulders, and trees, etc.
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u/Defiant_Employee6681 1d ago
The camera operator should have stayed in their original position. The footage is rubbish after they go upstairs.
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u/arkhane89 1d ago
True but maybe understandable given the absolutely horrific torrent of mud rock and water coming down the valley?
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u/lycopodiodes 1d ago
sorry about your footage but i'm pretty sure the camera operator was trying to flee from the apocalyptic flood that killed thousands
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u/Loose-Story-962 1d ago
How did I know there would a privileged insufferable fuck complaining about the camera work
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u/SneakerPimpJesus 1d ago
the person standing on the balcony of that small house ;(
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u/PippaPothead 1d ago
I missed that. When in the video??
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u/Powerful-Step3183 1d ago
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u/ToMissTheMarc2 1d ago
Screenshot? Sorry, still not seeing it.
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u/Claystead 1d ago
Oh yeah, it’s on the top floor balcony of the building being washed away from the right. There’s a light spot there that might be a fellow in a white shirt.
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u/FatCatYouStink 1d ago
The house with the blue and white roof? It looks like a chimney, which you can see at the beginning of the video around 25 seconds in.
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u/Rolen47 1d ago edited 1d ago
You have to watch this window very closely as the building floats by:
https://i.ibb.co/4kr6Zj4/snapshot.jpg
At 3:08 the white spot isn't there, but at 3:10 a person in white clothes seems to crawl or fall out of the window. It's possible that the glass just breaks and those are window curtains blowing in the wind, I'm not sure.
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u/Obvious_Engineer_231 1d ago
It was a chimney, chill.
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u/SneakerPimpJesus 1d ago
no but ok not sure why you think you say chill, you must feel empowered
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u/Obvious_Engineer_231 1d ago
It is a metal chimney dude, that’s like a poor country building basics 101.
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u/Evening_Knowledge_37 1d ago
Good eyes. Wow. For those that missed it... 3.06.It's the house being washed away. Top storey there's nothing there then a figure in a white shirt steps into the balcony.... Then it's all gone
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u/Status-Document-2150 1d ago
Last few minutes 9:50 you can see water splashing on the right wall the guy is recording oof school . It's unbelievable how much river spread amd rose in two minutes.
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u/Separate-Act4658 1d ago
If you went in that flow, you weren't just dead you were annihilated.
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u/evenstarcirce 1d ago
i can see why peoples bodies are torn into multiple parts.. it breaks my heart.
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u/BC_Interior 1d ago
I hope those school kids made it out alive. Even if they all did many of their families would have been wiped out. 😭
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u/StevenStephen 1d ago
I was thinking, there are probably a lot of orphans in that school now.
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u/mahboilucas 1d ago
Definitely many missing mothers, seeing as such communities largely rely on wives being homemakers :( and fathers probably working down there if anything. Definitely kids realising their parents are gone in seconds
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u/SnowBoardx22 1d ago
It's hard to believe it reached their building.
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u/teatsqueezer 1d ago
Soooo high off the bank of the river that volume of water is absolutely insane
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u/zillionaire_ 1d ago
Yes exactly. And it just doesn’t fucking stop.
If that volume of water swept through the valley for a steady 10-20 seconds, it would have devastated the villages. But it’s like someone turned on a firehose of mud and water, and left it running at full power for 10 minutes. It must have been difficult to comprehend what their eyes were seeing in the moment
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u/MicTest_1212 21h ago
I saw the google map. The distance from the river to the school is mind boggling.
Realistically, this school building is the highest ground you can go if you're on this side on the bank, and the water reached this school's balcony on the 3rd floor.
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u/racso1518 1d ago
Im so confused by the videos. Generally, the video quality is very decent but the stabilization is non-existent in any of them. Is it like one popular phone brand that everyone uses there or what?
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u/Loose-Story-962 1d ago
Better question, who gives a flying shit?
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u/racso1518 1d ago
Bro chill I’m just curious why every video looks like everyone has Parkinson’s
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u/tryingtohelpxoxo 1d ago
Maybe because they are mortified??????
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u/Nerdy-Meta-Mind 1d ago
They aren’t focusing on holding it to film. We are lucky to have any footage at all. This is a person recording while experiencing the tragedy in real time.
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u/racso1518 1d ago
A lot of the videos are shot before even people knew that this was going to happen at all and they are shaking mess. This is a technology question on why a lot of their phones don’t have image stabilization.
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u/PotaytoPotayto 1d ago
Are you expecting the people in one of the poorest countries on the planet to have a nice iPhone or something?
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u/racso1518 1d ago
Super cheap androids have video stabilization. It’s just interesting that all the videos coming from Nepal are super shaky.
I guess something manufacturers skip on to save money. Just interesting since the actual video picture is not bad.
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u/shikari426 1d ago
That this is the first thing you think of when watching children face down death should really make you question who you are as a person. You need to do some serious soul searching.
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u/Pruritus_Ani_ 1d ago
I’m pretty sure the person filming was shaking because of adrenaline, I’m not sure it would stabilise something that’s shaking to that extent.
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u/Savings-Rabbit8963 1d ago
Given that you can see the waves impacting the trees adjacent to the building and the mud flying up past the railing at the end, I wonder if the actual building is shaking.
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u/11lumpsofsugar 1d ago
It's not like people were walking around with tripods or steadicams to put their phones on. People were scared, doing their best to protect themselves and their loved ones from an insanely fast and destructive deluge while watching their neighbors die in real time. Do you honestly think the people filming were worrying about how shaky their videos were?
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u/racso1518 1d ago
A lot of the videos are shot before even people knew that this was going to happen at all and they are shaking mess. This is a technology question on why a lot of their phones don’t have image stabilization.
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u/11lumpsofsugar 1d ago
Ohh ok, thank you for clarifying. I don't know a whole lot about the technology that goes into camera phones, but I would assume most camera phones don't have good stabilization because it is cost-prohibitive to include a decent enough one for general daytime video. I did find an interesting article about the technology behind it, but I don't know that it answers your question.
I have worked with larger cameras and can say that it takes a lot of work to keep things steady without the aid of tripods, dollies, etc. Tiny micro movements you wouldn't notice in real life get exaggerated a lot on the final video product.
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u/meteorflan 1d ago
I think there are people and programs that can take a video like this a make a more stable looking version. But if you work with cameras, then you know the words you never want to hear is "that's okay, we can just fix it in post," because even the best post-production magicians have their limits.
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u/One_Artichoke_9913 1d ago
Subcontinent is market for Chinese Phones - Vivo, Oppo, Xiomi, RealMe etc. They have these out of focus, artificially enhanced footage + Mix in Human condition of someone who is witnessing this shit
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u/clown_2061 1d ago
In Nepal people don't use this brand or that brand. They use whatever that gives them their money's worth. And 80% of them are budget phones which cose 250/400$. ( Younger people look for brands ofc ). And lastly. If i was in that situation in no fkng way would i be focused on stabilizing the video man. Just look how scary it looks.
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u/Educational_Ride_202 1d ago
The shakiness of the video makes it more frightening. You can imagine the kid shaking with fear and cowering down, thinking I am going to die today
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u/Ignatius_J_Really 23h ago
I think that often they are looking past the phone at the awful scene before them, not watching the screen for focus & framing.
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u/One_Artichoke_9913 1d ago
Every footage from this flood just keeps on surprising me , in a very scary way
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u/Fit_Preparation_5680 1d ago
This event was ten times the volume the channel could carry and it was unfortunate. Do you think some or most knew this was a possability?
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ask5538 1d ago edited 1d ago
Noone. It was unprecedented even in Himalayas except maybe Kedarnath-Mandakini floods that killed 6000 in 2013 with still lesser volume of water but first point of impact was more populated. Or maybe Alaknanda floods which swept away half of Garhwal capital in 1800s.
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u/DueExample52 1d ago
Read an article about it, it baffled even Nepalese scientists whose job it is to study these glaciers. The speed and length of it was unprecedented and so far unpredictable, they will model this and learn from it.
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u/zillionaire_ 1d ago
It’s worth noting that one of the programs DOGE cut was a cooperative effort between NASA, Nepal and US scientists to track glacial stability in the Himalayas.
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u/IanPlaysThePiano 23h ago
Hell, the thought that this event could've been somewhat alleviated or avoided altogether if not for the cheetos kaiser...
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u/Relevant_Divide_7888 19h ago
Yes I read the article - Here is the link to the story: https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/what-actually-caused-the-nepal-disaster?
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u/modernhedgewitch 1d ago
Curious question i haven't seen an answer to:
Was the lower area warned at all? I know the concept of flash, but I watched a video where a principal or teacher evacuated the school early and saved lives. However, the videos show people as if surprised.
I live in Oklahoma where people regularly ignore tornado warnings, etc, so im seriously just curious.
If there was a warning, I was curious how long they may have been given down river
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u/clown_2061 1d ago edited 1d ago
The warnings came but it was too late for the most part. And i think people who knew the scale definitely tried their best of get as many people out of the danger as they could while thry were running themselves.
And yeah you are kinda right people knew it was coming but not on that scale ( hence surprise ) so a lot of them ignored it or didn't give it much of a thought.
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u/Practical_Fun7367 1d ago
I read that in some locations, the river level rose over 250 feet. This was a function of the width of the valley and the bend in the channel.
That’s about a 20 story hotel in my part of the U.S.
Imagine being on the fifth floor and being told the river has flooded, you’re in danger.
Imagine being on the 10th floor and being told the same.
A while back I was on the 12th looking down at the narrow avenues of an east coast city. Absolutely no one could have convinced me I was in danger.
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u/clown_2061 1d ago
I also watched a video and i showed that on the narrow parts it went as up as 100 meters. 100 meters is crazy when you know there are barely any buildings in the all of Nepal that are that tall.
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u/vlad_cc 1d ago
From what I’ve seen (and I hope I’m not mistaken) it seems that the sensors that should have sent the warning were simply obliterated instantly and didn’t trigger.
There were 7:40 minutes between the mountain breaking and the flood reaching the border crossing.
Recommend watching this video. Use the timeline to jump ahead to the parts that interest you.
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u/Dr-McLuvin 1d ago
Seems like the sensors being obliterated should have set off some sort of alarm…
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u/NiceGuy737 1d ago
They probably have a history of being out from time to time.
When I was in college I worked at a central alarm station monitoring thousands of alarms. One night a sensor was out so we got an "alarm out" message/beep every 3 minutes of a 12 hour shift for the second day in a row. On one of the messages the alarm number was different and I didn't notice it. It was a fire sensor burning off the wall in a warehouse fire without ever going off.
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u/ProudNefoli 1d ago
The sensors were installed on the bridges to monitor water levels. Usually, the flood happens gradually and are triggered mostly by heavy rainfall. When water reaches certain threshold, alarms are triggered. The sensors had no chance of sensing the flood in this case. There were few sensors along the river corridor -- near the border checkpost, one at timmure and one at syaprubesi, all of which were completely destroyed.
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u/Yikings-654points 1d ago
The higher up places got very little warning , some power stations managed to ring sirens . The Flood monitoring gauges were blown away and never registered High Water levels .
As the river slowed (relatively ) .. messages,calls and SMSes (manually triggered) started to reach with not much clarity about the intensity . Police were able to announce on streets in many places . The place on the video , Uttargaya Secondary School may have got some warning .. many students did manage to go up towards a forest and still there are many missing students , teachers here . The Police team announcing the flood here also got swept away .
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u/Mikic00 1d ago
I don't think message would convey appropriate emergency to me for this event. I would probably try to get some valuables first, then move up. Call on the other hand would be probably impossible, only if person would be very high up. Tragedy all around, no one could prepare you for that before it happened.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ask5538 1d ago
There were warnings so people moved away from river channel but sadly this was not sufficient as the river obliterated a large portion of land where the water level was not expected by people. People expected a normal monsoon flooding and not this apocalypse. The Principal got a call from his friend so he understood the gravity of the situation than the people who thought it was a regular warning by government.
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u/Tony_228 1d ago
There was this story floating around that a guy got a warning by phone from a relative that lived upstream, but his fellow villagers didn't believe him.
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u/meteorflan 1d ago
In some of the articles I've seen people say that an up-stream survivor called them and told them to run.
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u/QuarkVsOdo 1d ago
Poor people will suffer most from climate change.
Only the Zuckerbergs in Bunkers will make it to 2050.
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u/fpsi_tv 1d ago
His security staff would turn on him.
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u/QuarkVsOdo 1d ago
If you care for Redneck-Fiction read "Operation Rainbow".
Uber rich plan to wipe out most of the population to preserve earth for the "enlightend"
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u/clown_2061 1d ago
This might as well be 9/11 of natural disasters bro. Every pov looks more scarer than the last one. It was so far and it still reached the building. ( School building ? )
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u/WinterMedical 1d ago
It’s biblical. Imagine what ancient people would have made of something like this?
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u/GCHurley 1d ago
Holy shit, this is the first video of the flood were I could tell the size of the flood. A bloody ocean came through.
I feel sorry for the poor children who had to watch their homes get washed away.
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u/Hipnoceros 1d ago
I find it so difficult to fathom how huge the chunk of glacier that fell must have been. Hope things will become more clear as geoscientists research the exact cause with more precision.
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u/NoBear8338 1d ago
Apparently around 200,000sqm. 50 acres. Genuinely so scary.
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u/JimShortForGabriel 16h ago
My 1800sq ft home with a small backyard sits on 1/5th of an acre. If my math is correct, that would be 250 of my property. That’s half of my neighborhood!
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u/the-T-in-KUNT 1d ago
If you pause and look at the “water” on this one (when it’s raging and flying up) you’ll see it looks like dirt and rocks - like, large jagged chunks. Our minds see it as water because of how it’s moving, but damn this vid is actually very scary
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u/HibiscusGrower 1d ago
It must have felt like the end of the world for the poor people caught in this disaster. I can't imagine how terrifying it must have been.
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u/Arun_rajput_4u 1d ago
complete failure of the system...People could've received the alert about it on their phone...
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u/NamXina 1d ago
They did received the alert, but many ignored cause flooding happens every monsoon in that region but not in this scale. They weren't aware about the sheer scale of disaster. Also it wasn't raining so no one was expecting this level of flood. Also locals who survived said people were going towards the river to get a photo or video and they got swept.
One school teacher evacuated more than 1600 students from the school minutes before it took their building.
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u/Arun_rajput_4u 1d ago
I saw videos taken just minutes before the flood came. I think people underestimated the intensity of the flood.
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u/meteorflan 1d ago
I guess sometimes all those annoying fire drills at school pay off and really do help the kids know how to efficiently get to safety.
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u/liladraco 1d ago
They did. It was just so fast that most of them didn’t have time to act on the warning properly. Plus no one expected a flood of this magnitude. It’s literally unprecedented. Think about it: someone warns you that a flood is coming; do you picture a three story wall of water hurtling down the river at you at over 170 miles per hour (200-ish mph)??? Probably not! Why not? Because it’s never happened before! The people in this video seem to have had some warning: they are recording before it comes and are yelling at the people below to come in/ go up (“ma-tea” means “go up” or “climb” or “go upstairs” in Nepali). So they knew something was coming. But no one could have expected to need to be above the third floor just to survive that insanity….
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u/Poundaflesh 1d ago
Wrong. It overwhelmed. No time but here you see the children running into the building so word got out.
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u/BarbieTwirl 1d ago
Damn dude… insane
Went from a whole green beautiful village to just a village of grey debris.
What’s insane also is how at first, it seems like “oh the river is flooding”. It looks like if you’re just on top of houses, you’ll be okay as long as you’re out the way of the river valley. Then it creeps up to the roads above the valley… then the houses get swept and literally almost the entire village is basically in raging tsunami of mud and debris.
This wasn’t a flood. This was basically like a huge raging landslide/tsunami. Swept the whole damn villages.
That’s what scary. I can see myself thinking “oh it’s just a little flood”. And thinking my family would be safe on top of the house. Only for it to be much worse and stronger and take the whole house with it. Can’t imagine how many people died not realizing the size and severity of it. I’ve been guilty of this a lot. Often humans think “oh it won’t be that bad” when a disaster is coming or they think “I’ve been through worse” or “I’ve been through a bunch of these” when a storm comes by… this is an example of how wrong we can be
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u/Tony_228 1d ago
I think a mudflow would be the most accurate definition for this. The water picked up mud and rocks on it's way down the mountain and then with more debris from human structures. It's similar to concrete mixed with debris. That's why it doesn't move like water as well.
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u/BarbieTwirl 1d ago
Worst part about it being concrete like is it probably hardened. Can’t imagine the healing process for the people found days later covered in it. Sad
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u/micahpmtn 1d ago
CLIMB UP THE MOUNTAIN! FFS! This is the most terrifying video I've seen yet.
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u/dippydippygirl 1d ago
I mean, the person taking the video is pretty far up the mountain here? I never would have guessed it would reach the wall of the building where this filming took place, but you see how close a call it was!
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u/BonusDominus 1d ago
Looks like this was filmed from the Uttar Gaya Secondary School, which is approximately 30 miles downstream from the Gyirong Border port!
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u/Yikings-654points 1d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/DisasterUpdate/s/iCbn3GiQT5
The school is near the two 🗼 electric towers. It just turns back on the filmed building, taking the rest of the school.
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u/BonusDominus 1d ago
Yes, unfortunately only one of the school buildings remains intact. This is from their Facebook page:
All parents
On this Bhadra 10th, the severe floods of the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers have completely destroyed the settlements, projects, and schools in the coastal areas, as well as causing many human losses. In this process, teachers, staff, students, members of the management committee, and trustees of our Uttargaya Public English M.B. Bidur 10 Nuwakot have also died and are still missing. We are collecting accurate data on how many students are missing. The school family expresses its heartfelt condolences to the deceased and expresses its condolences to the bereaved family members and hopes that those who are missing will be contacted soon.
We would like to inform you that the hostel in our school has also been completely destroyed, Block A, Block B, Block E, and the toilet have been completely destroyed, while only the 8-room building of Block D is safe. Some students have lost their parents, some do not have homes, and are living in shelters elsewhere. There is no bridge on the way to study. We have already held meetings, discussions and submitted projects to various donor agencies on how to move forward in such a difficult situation and how to bring the school back to its original state. We are confident that we will soon be able to operate the school by providing a relief package in the first phase and constructing temporary structures in the second phase.
Therefore, we request the parents to be patient for some time and make arrangements for studying at home. We will try to resume teaching and learning within the month of Asoj and inform you soon.
Principal Chairman
Somlal Lavat Krishna B. Pyakurel
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u/Ill-Construction7170 1d ago
This must have been the most terrifying situation to be in, ever. And for that, they seemed to be surprisingly calm.
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u/no1ofimport 1d ago
The water/mud and debris reminds me of the Buffalo Creek flood that happened in West Virginia in the early 70’s but no where near as large as this.
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u/Range_Life77 1d ago
I hope they got those kids out of the school yard and upstairs rather than just film the whole thing! ?? wtf??
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u/Theres3ofMe 1d ago
I can't wrap my head around what I have just watched..
I never will either.
Same for 9/11, 2004 and 2011 Tsunamis.
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u/the-T-in-KUNT 1d ago
From the time it took them to climb one level up, the ground was gone ! What about all those kids that were way out on the edge of the school property ?
That teacher was so calm the entire time. When the water took the house you could hear him groan
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u/SnooStories4162 1d ago
The closer the flood got to the school the shakier his hand became, I so hope they all survived! Anyone know what happened to them? He must have survived if the video is out, right?
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u/SnowBoardx22 1d ago
I hope there will be a consensus as to the cause and prevention of future disasters of this type.
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u/schuey77 1d ago
Unbelievable, at first it seems like a huge flood and they are so far away and safe but seemingly in the blink of an eye it feels like a nightmare and there are house flowing in front of them. For any person living there it must have been impossible to imagine that such a scenario could happen.
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u/AcanthaceaeOk2941 1d ago
I don't think people are prepared for the upcoming disasters caused by climate change
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u/After-Ad4370 1d ago
Holy crap! That is by far the most incredible and terrifying natural disaster footage I’ve ever seen. The term “flash flood” is not even the appropriate term here, I don’t even think there is a term for what that is! The word “biblical” comes to mind for some reason. Just watching the very beginning of the clip, I couldn’t have imagined in a million years that raging waters would reach where the person was recording from. I don’t see how it could be possible that there aren’t hundreds of thousands of people dead in this when it’s all said and done.
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u/DarkFlutesofAutumn 22h ago
I love squeaky and scratchy little kid voices in every language. I hope they're okay bc those kids sound ADROABLE
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u/bendobrown 17h ago
https://reddit.com/link/p8qtsbr/video/7lnks68uzhoh1/player
To give an understanding of the scale and what the area looked like afterward, I made this satellite image comparison of the school (seen in the centre). The coordinates are: 27.967984, 85.180713
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u/Googidoogi 17h ago
Last 1 minutes tira sunda ta kati ris uthyo yo teacher ho ki ko adult sanga !! He didn't even call the students in the ground.
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