Disaster In Nepal

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1. Those poor souls.

   1. Indeed.

      Coincidentally, I had booked a Langtang Valley trek for this October; now changing that to a Mardi Himal trek instead.

      Tourism is essential for the Nepali economy and its people, so hopefully this tragedy will not scare away too many prospective Nepal visitors,

2. This is so sad. And 100% to blame on China for building like that.

   Engineer Ching: “Gee, you think it might rain? In the mountains? That could be bad.”

   Comrade Apparatchik Chong: “Who cares? Thin that cement out more, Ching, I need more graft here.”

3. Jesus!

4. The entire population of Nepal should be flown into Calgary, given citizenship, benefits, college degrees, and then this would solve the ugly possibility of Alberta succession. Oh, and drivers licenses too. Bring the military age men first, of course. Yup.

   1. Alberta Gurkhas!

   2. “The entire population of Nepal should be flown into Calgary…”

      Honestly, that might be better than what we’re getting lately.

5. Perhaps this not the time make this human disaster a political debate tool?

6. Shocking!

   A landslide caused this? Not a collapsed dam or something?

   Here in CA … the eco-intelligentsia will praise Nepal for leaving nature in its pristine untouched state. No Army Corps of engineers creating concrete flood protections, retaining walls, soil nailing, or dams. Here … we leave nature … untouched … by humans so it can burn to the ground.

7. This is the stuff of disaster movies. Never thought I’d see it in real life.

8. In the second video at the X post — the one with the parking lot full of buses — it looks like a lot of people did not survive that.

9. “Sudden release of water”. News reports say a moderate earthquake, 4.4, caused collapse of a Chinese built dam in Tibet, flooding at least 3 villages. Beyond that, I don’t know what to say, except that it was of course devastating.

   1. Interesting. I rarely log in to X but did so today so I could watch these videos. A post there attributed the flood to a glacier collapse that temporarily dammed a river and then let go. Googling on it just now, Google’s AI summary is going with the glacier and climate change angle on this. So we may never know what really happened.

      Only when you scroll further down from the summary do you see the possibility that and earthquake caused the glacier collapse, rather than warming.

      1. “Google’s AI summary is going with the glacier and climate change angle”

         How do you say “the narrative” in mandarin?

         1. I saw the same thing … Ohhhhhhhhhhhh Mommmmaaaaaaaa … if only the FAT RICH SELFISH American pigs had STOPPED driving their pickup trucks and air conditioning their homes … when Al Gore WARNED them to … inconveniently … then glaciers wouldn’t melt, move mountainsides, causing a mass landslide that murdered thousands of noble, peaceful, nature-respecting Nepalese peoples.

            It’s capitalism’s fault. Kill the Rich … and TAKE all their stuff

10. The 4.4 earthquake most likely was the measurement caused by the initial water/debris hitting the valley floor. That mass would have been a near incalculable volume causing the earth to shake and shudder.
    The images of so many people being swept away by the flood was heartwrenching.
    It angers me that the MSM has to manipulate their viewers with climate change hysteria in their initial reporting. Narratives are in their scripts, thats what they are paid to spew. Disgusting.

11. Here’s some ammo to counter the “unprecedented” claims that will surely appear:

    https://kathmandupost.com/columns/2019/07/26/a-short-history-of-floods-in-nepal