The mechanics of the Nepali flash flood

pm2222

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-nepal-tibet-glacie... CCTV footage is there. Horrific scene. When you see it coming at you it’s already too late.

yeah879846

Paywall. I'm not sure how you expect anyone to read this

decasia

The CCTV footage was one of the most heartbreaking things I have seen on the internet lately. It makes me think a bit of the Johnstown flood from 1889: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood#/media/File:Th...

croisillon

another good article, without paywall: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/nepal-tibet-fl...

glimshe

I haven't yet been able to properly internalize the horror of this scene. Maybe because we're exposed to so many images from disaster and action movies/videogames, I got somewhat desensitized to the "graphics", so to speak. It's like my brain is denial. At the same time, I know this is real and a tragedy in an unimaginable scale. Every "little walking figure" is a full human being with dreams, fears and a rich life story. I'm afraid that at one point it will just hit me super hard.

tintor

Is Switzerland exposed to similar risk, given the amount of glaciers?

blondie9x

Really helpful on navigating what happened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZvUQ7aoehw

dredmorbius

Is there a text of this elsewhere? I'm hard-paywalled (archive.is doesn't seem to capture a copy).

Magi604

There was a video on threads earlier today (probably long gone now) of some of the bodies they were finding. Just truly horrific what that amount of sheer force can do to a person.