It is harrowing. It also explains why the villages in my ancestral region in India (JK, HP, UK) with close cultural and ethnic ties with Nepal used to build them at the upper portions of the sides of mountains/hills and only shifted to building at the bottom of those kinds of valleys when motorized roads became a thing in the 20th century.

Rescue operations in Nepal are in good hands, but this is sadly because those same response orgs had to respond to a similarly brutal cloud burst floods back in 2013 [0], 2021 [1] and 2025 [2].

It also shows the very real and brutal effect climate change is already having, and will only get worse.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_North_India_floods

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Uttarakhand_flood

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Kishtwar_district_flash_f...