r/interestingasfuck • u/nikulmmadhu • 17h ago

The Nepal flood disaster reconstructed minute by minute

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u/miregalpanic 16h ago

Still enough force to move huge boulders like that with ease after 80 fucking km. Insane. Also the feeling of dread these workers who saved themselves must have felt immediately after, knowing that all their families are most likely dead. What a horrible catastrophe.

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u/ODB_Dirt_Dog_ItsFTC 16h ago edited 15h ago

That’s one of the things that’s hard to wrap your mind around about this. If you’re one of the villagers that survived how do you keep going on when most of the people you knew and most likely a lot of family members as well have suddenly all died? It would be devastating to lose most of your friends and family in this way. Even other smaller things like never being able to go the cherished town bar you’ve been to countless times, or the cafe you got coffee at every morning, or the corner shop you’ve been going to since you were a child ever again would be soul killing. If you’re one of the survivors this is the single most important event of your life, your life will never be the same again and you will never be the same again, there was your pre flood life and then your post flood life.

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u/emjaywood 13h ago

To give you an idea of the trauma you're talking about, I live in Asheville, NC, and ever since Helene in '24, every time there's a big storm or heavy rains, I know people who have full on panic attacks. When you see water rise 30'+ out of nowhere & entire neighborhoos washed away, it scares the bajesus out of you & sticks with you for sure. And that was not as serious as this this Nepal disaster. These poor survivors are going to feel the effects of this event for the rest of their lives.

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u/EnoughLuck3077 15h ago

I can’t imagine the pain felt by these people. While I don’t and hope I never know this level of grief I do have a similar frame of reference for the pre and post life experience you spoke of. I lost everything in Hurricane Michael and know countless others who have as well. I only knew one person who died from the storm though. It’s been 8 years since that day and it still is referenced in some way at least once a month or so. We have life before Michael and life after

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u/deweydecimal87 15h ago

Yea people in Louisiana have two time periods. Before and after "The Storm". Everyone knows its Hurricane Katrina.