The mechanics of the Nepali flash flood

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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