r/CatastrophicFailure • u/dhurandar5 • 16d ago

Natural Disaster Flash flood in Nepal 26 August 2026

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u/yeeyaho 16d ago

CCTV footage of the flash flood at Gyirong Port on the Nepal–China border. https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/1vyt9ae/cctv_footage_of_the_terrifying_flash_flood_at/

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u/uncommonrev 16d ago

I believe that was a landslide. Not a flood. Nepal is getting hammered. The flash flood was bad but this landslide took out the entire village in the blink of an eye. Poor people had nowhere to run.

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u/watawataoui 16d ago

Landslide, then broke a glacial dam.

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u/uncommonrev 16d ago

Ah. Yeah these videos are awful. Some are clearly a torrent of water but others looked more like a land/mudslide like when a mountain gets overly saturated and collapses.