Catastrophic flooding in Nepal.

[Climber]

I was waiting for somebody to start a thread on this.

Catastrophic floods kill over 390 in Nepal and Tibet, with more than 1,400 missing

Rescue teams and military helicopters searched Thursday for hundreds of missing people along the mountainous Nepal-China border, where a deadly torrent of water and mud several stories high swept through communities a day earlier following a glacier collapse.

Videos of the disaster showed people running before the floodwaters swallowed them up and washed out buildings and bridges. More than 390 people were killed, according to authorities in Nepal and China, and more than 1,400 were missing, including hundreds of foreigners and pilgrims. Hundreds of others have been displaced across the Himalayan region.

I saw videos of the flash flood, I've never seen anything nearly as bad from flash flood, I heard that it may have been a glacier falling into water and creating a surge.

Frightening stuff!

 

[GAJ]

Horrific.

More like a flash tsunami.

 

[2legs2wheels]

Saw some videos and thought they were fake AI ones. Once I realized they are real, I was horrified!

 

[N4teTheGreat]

I believe they determined it was a glacial damn that failed unleashing an entire lake at once, pretty horrific.

 

[budman]

Horrific. Unbelievable.

to those lost and hope for any that are trapped.

 

[Mike95060]

Saw some videos and thought they were fake AI ones. Once I realized they are real, I was horrified!

Same.

Some facts:

 

[mercurial]

I spent a month in Nepal a long time ago, and while the people are perfectly lovely, I never felt less safe in my life than my time there. The geography of the area is just so extreme, even in the foothills it's all these knife like canyons with raging rivers at the bottom, with boulder-strewn roads precariously carved into the hillside. Earthquakes, monsoon flooding, landslides, it just never ends over there. Your only safety approach is "thoughts and prayers".