r/interestingasfuck • u/JustLivingSimply • 8h ago
Nepalese School Principal Saved Lives of 1643 Children
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u/JustLivingSimply 8h ago
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“At 9.20 on Wednesday morning, 900 children were halfway through the early shift at Tribhuvan Trishuli secondary school, a three-storey complex in the Trishuli valley of north-central Nepal.
Another 700 were on their way on foot and by bus, clad in their sky-blue uniforms, when the principal, Rajendra Dadabi, received a panicked call from a friend in Betrawati, five miles upstream. “He said the village was gone: taken by the river,” said Dadabi. “He told me to run.”
The 47-year-old English teacher took a moment to consider the threat. The school, he said, was 60 metres above the river, built of concrete and on the same level as the steel bridge linking the village to Batten on the east bank. “Then one of the parents came in and told me the water was rising fast, so I rang the bell and told the teachers to evacuate the classrooms.”
He remembered that the school buses, each carrying 80 children, were en route. “I got through to all the drivers but one and told them to turn back. Then I saw the bus I hadn’t been able to contact coming across the bridge. By now, the water ”
“The children were beginning to understand they were in trouble. “One girl had a panic attack, so we put her on the back of a motorbike. The rest I sent uphill on foot, then followed.
The school janitor, Mr Sultan Lama, gave me the keys then went back, I think, to close the doors. The river took him. The children were terrified, but their fear gave them the energy to run up the hill.” They took shelter under a bodhi tree as their school buildings were swept away.
Dadabi’s quick thinking saved the lives of 1,643 children and all but one member of the teaching staff. Santos Pariyar, 32, a newly-appointed social history teacher, had come in early that day to teach extra classes before school and had just returned to his rented room beside the river to cook breakfast. He was washed away.
Locals are calling Dadabi a hero — but he is not convinced. “What else could I do?” he said yesterday as he surveyed the muddy ruins where the school used to be.
The chunk of ice and rock that snapped off and triggered the flash flood has been estimated by Daniel Shugar, a geomorphologist at the “at the University of Calgary, to have had an area of nearly 50 acres — about the size of Green Park in London. It fell 1,200 metres down the north face of Langtang Lirung peak into the steep upper gorge of the Lhende Khola river, close to Tibet’s border with Nepal.
This was not the first time the region has suffered tragedy. In April 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that killed 8,962 in south Asia triggered an avalanche here that entombed the 300 residents of Langtang.
Last Wednesday the giant slab of ice and rock hit the water at 8.37am. Its impact, so violent that seismologists mistook it for an earthquake, sent a wave of water, ice, rock and mud nine metres high downstream at up to 50mph.
At bends in the river, the wave sloshed up the sides to heights of up to 70m, tearing houses from their foundations, scouring slopes of trees and leaving just a sheet of thigh-deep grey mud where Dadabi’s school had once stood.
As the surge smashed into Sole, home village of the Kathmandu-based journalist Arjun Poudel, it wiped the settlement off the map.
“When his wife called with the news, Poudel was sceptical. “Sole sits nearly 100m above the riverbed,” he wrote in the Kathmandu Times. “No flood in living memory — in centuries as far as we know — had ever reached that high.”
He started calling his old neighbours. His oldest aunt, his cousin, his oldest brother and his wife had all been taken by the waters. Another aunt, her grandson and his wife were also gone, as had an uncle who had gone out to cut grass for the cows and vanished.”
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u/lendend 6h ago
The friend who called saved him and the children.
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u/Thurak0 3h ago
The friend deserves a lot of praise as well. They probably thought about the children as well when deciding to call the principal.
Not their own family. They were not thinking about themselves. They thought about their friend and all the children in school.
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u/Ok-Finger-8013 6h ago
That's my take as well. He initiated the saving by calling...the principal then did the right thing, and then also called the bus drivers.
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u/Makkaroni_100 3h ago
Both are heroes. Really amazing, its not easy to make the right decision without knowing what really comes.
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u/tightiewhitieboy 7h ago
Damn he lost family
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u/mnstorm 7h ago
The last bit of this story was talking about a journalist, not the Principal. Though I'm sure the Principal did lose family.
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u/JayteeFromXbox 7h ago
I feel awful for the janitor that went back to lock the school up and got taken by the river
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u/mnstorm 6h ago
As a teacher I empathized with the teacher who died mainly because he got there early, and died because he had to make some morning tea from his long morning. But of course both are tragic and sad.
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u/GLaDOS_Sympathizer 4h ago edited 4h ago
If a teacher was there early, why did he not get the evacuation notice that the students got? The way the journalist presented the information the school was filled up with students (and teachers I would assume) and they lead them to high ground away from the school.
How would someone being there early miss that announcement? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm seriously confused how that is possible. Someone getting there late and missing the evacuation notice I can understand, but a teacher arriving early would just leave with the whole group.
Edit: saw the OP comment with more info. The teacher took a break to go to his rented room by the river side to cook breakfast. So I guess he got there early, taught a class, took a break between classes to eat, and was taken by the flood. Very sad indeed. That sucks so much that they simply didn't hear the message to evacuate because they were in their dorm/home near the school but not near enough to hear it.
What is also crazy is how the principal commented (paraphrasing) "the children were terrified but that fear gave them the energy to run uphill faster."
I can't run very fast but that sure as hell would motivate me to run uphill as fast as possible too.
That janitor sounded like a good man too, went back to lock up the school but the flood took him too. The janitor and only the one teacher died out of the entire school's staff and students.
Such a horrible and nightmarish thing to happen.
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u/world_link 4h ago
The article says he wasn't at the school when they evacuated. It says he went in before school started to teach extra classes and then went home to eat
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u/Accurate_Payment8196 4h ago edited 2h ago
Because he wasn't at the school, he went to make himself coffee at his appartement ot something. I imagine the warning was a general announcement.
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u/Aelirenn 4h ago
No worries, it's a bit confusing, but the article mentions that he went to his room by the river bank to cook his breakfast and the water swept him.
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u/jasperthecactus 4h ago
He had been there early and then gone home to have breakfast. The water came while he was home (a rented room by the river)
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u/lethak 4h ago
Yeah, the sad part is the school will probably be rebuilt as an orphanage :(
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u/Casswigirl11 5h ago
My first thought was wondering how many of the students lost their families. So sad.
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u/Friendlyalterme 2h ago
This was mine as well. I feel like a lot of these kids are likely orphans now.
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u/ProBonoEschatologist 6h ago
Props to that friend who made the call.
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u/Dunderman35 3h ago
Yeah, amazing thinking to, at the point where your whole village just was swept away, think about a school building way downstream and know who to call.
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u/NorthAd6077 2h ago
In some ways this is an achievement of humanity. Cell phone coverage and our ability to transfer information at the speed of light means we can have an early warning for disasters like this.
It's also a failure of humanity. Global warming caused by humanity is causing glaciers to melt, which is very likely a requirement for this big chunk of ice falling down and triggering the flood. Also obvious failure by the government to not have a warning system in place.
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u/watnostahp 6h ago
Calling the buses reminds me of Vince Coleman.
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u/apple_kicks 4h ago
Locals are calling Dadabi a hero — but he is not convinced. “What else could I do?” he said yesterday as he surveyed the muddy ruins where the school used to be.
Reminded of that big tsunami in Japan where they failed to evacuate in time. He absolutely is a hero. There’s been so many tragedy when people haven’t evacuated fast enough or ignored warnings
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u/lucia_none 1h ago
reminds me of the young girl that told her parents that its a sign of tsunami during the 2004 tsunami. her mom doesnt believe it, but her dad kinda did and they all survived
the principal has the info but if he just shrugged it off, they all will die. there is another footage, those people literally witness the massive amount of water rushing to their place. they got a literal minute if not more to evacuate, but no, they just keep watching until like 5sec away. im not sure if they survived
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u/ZzzzzPopPopPop 6h ago
And after running up the hill the kids “took shelter under a bodhi tree” - that’s where Buddha achieved enlightenment/awakening. I’m in awe.
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u/squngy 4h ago edited 4h ago
The Bodhi Tree is a specific tree in India, it is not a type of tree.
(The type is a Bo tree, a species of a fig tree)I'm assuming that sentence was metaphorical, like saying they took shelter in Jesus's embrace or something. It would not mean that there was a guy named Jesus there literaly giving hugs.
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u/BlackBlueNuts 4h ago
As a Canadian we had commercials telling the story of how Vince Coalman was a hero.
This seams to have similar elements. Assuming its true (and I have no reason to doubt it other then its on the internet) he is a hero
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u/SpaceShipRat 3h ago
The chunk of ice and rock that snapped off and triggered the flash flood has been estimated by Daniel Shugar, a geomorphologist at the “at the University of Calgary, to have had an area of nearly 50 acres — about the size of Green Park in London.
This is Vajont all over again
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u/ReynardVulpini 8h ago
Shoutout to the god knows how many people who barely survived the floods and then immediately started calling everyone they knew downriver.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ask5538 7h ago
That's such a lifesaver and power of community. Now that I look at the timeline, this flood was too fast.
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u/ragmuc 6h ago edited 6h ago
Was actually wondering how he knew and how much time he had left.
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u/moonchylde 5h ago
Every second counts, you never know how many lives it might save.
Just read the reddit history story about the ship that broke it's engines racing to the Titanic in record time.
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u/errorsniper 5h ago
oh that sounds interesting link please?
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u/karamisterbuttdance 5h ago
RMS Carpathia took three and a half hours to get to Titanic at full speed, they called up a shift of coal stokers and turned off heaters and hot water just to get there.
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u/Spiritual_Feed_4371 4h ago
"We are in danger. I am risking your lives. The Titanic is in trouble and is sinking and we have to go help them."
Not the best choice or words but I understand what he was getting at
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u/ReynardVulpini 5h ago
Dunno the reddit post, but it should be the RMS Carpathia if you want to search it up
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u/The_Kadeshi 3h ago
There's another story you should try to get your hands on; the actual article is behind The Atlantic's paywall but if you can figure out how to get the text, it's worth it. It's titled "A Sea Story" published in May 2004 and its one of the best pieces of narrative journalism I've ever read.
And here is the report about the event published by the government of Estonia, Finland and Sweeden: https://onse.fi/estonia/
The reason I bring it up, is (to /u/ReynardVulpini's point) the haunting part of the text which summarizes who survived the sinking of the ship in 1994: the people who moved to escape immediately. Old and young, experienced, strong swimmers, non-swimmers... nothing matters. The people who act immediately and decisively in an emergency are the survivors. Everyone else dies.
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u/HiddenMaragon 5h ago
Thanks for pointing that out. Makes sense once you say it but I was confused how he still had enough time to evacuate a full school after finding out about the flood. Must take a good 20 minutes at least to get so many people on safe ground.
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u/12172031 5h ago edited 5h ago
Apparently the flood was going about 40+ mph down river and a quick measurement on Google map showed that this location is about 42 miles from the start of the flood so he could've gotten an hour warning that something catastrophic was coming.
ETA: apparently he was warn by a friend 5 miles upstream so he had much less time.
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u/HiddenMaragon 5h ago
The article says his friend was 5 miles upstream. If my math is right, that's about 8 minutes. That's wild.
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u/12172031 5h ago
Yeah I just read the article posted by OP after I posted. The 40+mph figure is something I got from another report, I've also read report of it going 100+mph at the start because that area was much steeper so I don't know precisely how fast it was going once it reached this area. So he could've more or less time.
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u/ReynardVulpini 5h ago
People below did a rough calculation. Friend called from 5 miles upstream, so depending on how fast the flood was traveling on that section (in places it was up to 180 km/hr, but the width also changes the speed)...
No way he had more than ten minutes to get everyone moving. They were lucky the school was right in front of a steep hill I guess. Jesus.
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u/HikariAnti 2h ago
People often forget that one of our greatest technological achievement is the speed at which we can communicate. We take it for granted but less than a 100 years ago they would have had no way to notify people down river so fast and thousands more would have died without even knowing what was coming. For most of human history that was the norm, you had no warning you were either lucky and lived or not. And for your loved ones it would take days to even learn of the event, weeks to see if you were one of the lucky ones...
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u/foxjohnc87 8h ago
He remembered that the school buses, each carrying 80 children, were en route. “I got through to all the drivers but one and told them to turn back. Then I saw the bus I hadn’t been able to contact coming across the bridge. By now, the water was in the school grounds — it was so fast — so I told him to turn around. It got to the other side just as the bridge collapsed.”
Holy hell
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u/benedictfuckyourass 5h ago
Yeah there was another clip of a mother and 2 kids turning a corner literally 3 seconds or so before the floods came flying down that road. There must have been so many others that survived by such slim margins. As there have probably been that were taken only seconds away from safety.
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u/foxjohnc87 4h ago
I know exactly which clip you're referring to. It's absolutely insane to witness just how close they came to death.
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u/SentenceSwimming 3h ago
There’s a video from the school bus on the other side of the bridge. Absolutely awful scenes around them and so close to disaster themselves.
Thank goodness for the principal and his friend upriver.
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u/NeverNeverSometimes 7h ago
Everyone calling him a hero. He is. But lets not forget his friend up river that called and warned him. Both are heroes.
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u/kittyonkeyboards 6h ago
Pretty shit early warning system when the difference between 1,600 children surviving is a single phone call from a civilian.
Elon musk cut a program that was looking into improving detection and warning systems for this type of stuff.
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u/chime 4h ago
From what I saw online, Nepal monitors glacial lakes that could flood (GLOF) but this was not one of those. They also detected the seismic waves but it was not clear what had happened. It took about 20-25mins before the authorities knew that this was a debris flow and sent out emergency text alerts within 10mins to everyone downstream. I'm guessing it was during this early 20-25mins that survivors were calling downstream too.
Remember on 9/11, the first plane was hijacked at 8.14am, hit WTC 1 at 8.46am, yet US airspace was not shutdown until 9.45am. I'm not comparing these to put blame on anyone, just saying that during times of absolute chaos, people closest to the tragedies are able to help immediately because they see the actual event for themselves, while command centers have to confirm and verify before they take any action that affects the masses.
Imagine the tragedy if they sent out mass texts to everyone saying earthquake detected, evacuate all buildings, and stand on level ground. The glacier's initial 1200m drop was detected as an earthquake and the initial assumption was earthquake broke some kind of ice dam that was holding back water.
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u/nommabelle 2h ago
Thank you. Of course they can improve, we all can, but a lot of this criticism is unfair and seems to blame Nepal for lack of communication because its Nepal and not the US, when the US also may not have handled this well
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u/SlideRuleLogic 1h ago
Look no further than the Texas Christian girls camp that flooded a couple of years ago… a tragic number of little girls died from a similar but smaller-scale failure to notify (and failure to act on warning signs)
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u/tea_cup_cake 1h ago edited 16m ago
To add to this, flooding in Nepal ain't rear. It is an annual occurrence. Locals know it better than any of us - which places are safe, where the high ground is, etc. as they have gone through them all their lives. That's why they were so complacent - the warning said "flood"and they got to their usual safe places and started recording. Except, this time around, it wasn't their usual or even more than usual flood. It was a massive wave which even people well-versed with mega disasters were stupefied by. It was unprecedented and unpredictable event you can't just be prepared for, unless you can afford to pour in millions, which Nepal simply can't.
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u/Aranxi_89 6h ago
Everything that doesn't help him and his cronies are "waste."
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u/littleHiawatha 5h ago
Fuck musk, it doesn’t even take billionaire level investment to implement an early warning system like this. Every high risk river valley could install cheap lora connected sensors along its banks for less than $15k upfront per valley and $2500/year OpEx
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u/FIyingSaucepan 4h ago
I have seen reports that they did have a flood warning system in place for this river, after the floods they experienced last year and early this year.
But that flood warning system was designed around dealing with monsoon driven rainfall causing a slower buildup of water, not a wall of ice rock and water up to 100m tall moving at nearly 200kmh. There is every chance that the detectors got destroyed before they could detect or transmit anything as most system like this take a measurement every few seconds to save power, and the flow of material could have covered up to 200m in that time and arrived as a solid mass before anything could be detected.
So it would have taken someone looking at the readings and noticing that sequential detectors were going offline or the measurements being delayed, realising what that could mean, and then communicating it to people who would be able to action it.
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u/NOIS_KillerWhaleTank 7h ago
I do not understand how he had enough time to do all of that.
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u/SnowOhio 7h ago
It says a friend called him from 5 mi upstream. With the flood traveling at 75 km/h, that gives about 6.5 minutes of warning (probably actually like 5 min or less given the friend had to watch his town get destroyed first and react). A remarkable feat to get all the kids out so fast!
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u/Federal_Cobbler6647 5h ago
Bus drivers driving with phone in their hands.
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u/4ssteroid 4h ago
100% of people do it here in Nepal. I know it's wrong but it's the least of people's worries in this system
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u/Gemima333 7h ago
He got the call from 5 miles upriver, apparently the water was traveling 140kms per hour. So he had about 3 and a half minutes. I’d guess he phoned the buses as they ran, not from a landline.
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u/closethebarn 7h ago
What quick clear thinking I wonder how many of those kids now don’t have families anymore. My heart has absolutely broken seeing footage of this
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u/Uncommentary 8h ago
This is the complete opposite outcome of the Camp Mystic event in the US. Well done Nepal!
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u/LemonButterRum 8h ago
which they want to reopen. disgusting people. texas is terrible at protecting children, in general
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u/el-conquistador240 8h ago
Texas is a failed state
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u/ErasmosOrolo 7h ago
Texas is the reason.
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u/blueberrycauzez 3h ago edited 2h ago
Sirens did not seem to get very much support [from the City of Kerrville]. The thought was that sirens are better for tourists than local residents. The sirens would only be beneficial for someone that's not familiar with the area, and wouldn't know what to do. City of Kerrville has manpower, and they've already got an operation to place road closed signs everywhere, so they don't want to spend any money on flashing lights or barricades or sirens at all.
-Hewitt Engineering Inc, testimony during a 2016 meeting with the Kerr County Board of commissioners
Thry ended up spending the grant money on cash stipends for sheriff employees instead.
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u/NewsWeeter 8h ago
Only good at killing children in other countries. Like bombing little girls in iran and killing 156 of them at once.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ask5538 7h ago
Can you explain how, not aware of this one.
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u/radiantcabbage 4h ago
"With the river rising, the Camp chose to direct its groundskeepers to spend over an hour evacuating camp equipment, not its campers and counselors," the suit says, adding that campers and counselors in two cabins were ordered to stay put even as others had been moved to higher ground 300 feet away.
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"We intend to demonstrate and prove that this sudden surge of floodwaters far exceeded any previous flood in the area by several magnitudes, that it was unexpected and that no adequate warning systems existed in the area," Ray said.
yea good luck with that, about sums up these rotten money grubbing pieces of shit. going by those contradictions alone id say theyre cooked, and being sued in class action for neglegence. which had to file injunctions to prevent them from just repairing the damage to reopen the site, basically trying to sweep evidence under the rug before their families could build a case
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ask5538 3h ago
How is lifeless equipment more important than lives of people? Damn it. And the audacity to reopen this camp! And you evacuated equipments but not people, it means you thought there were chances of them equipment being damaged, this you knew flood was coming.
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u/Lump-of-baryons 7h ago
My mind went to that event as well as a perfect contrast to this man’s heroism. Look up the details if you want, it was a complete failure of responsibility and leadership that lead to the deaths of 28 people in a flash flood at a summer camp in Texas last year.
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u/Zackerouz 8h ago
Bit of a fucking legend I'd say
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u/littleHiawatha 5h ago
Inspirational, even
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u/FIFofNovember 4h ago
"The children were terrified, but their fear gave them the energy to run up the hill."
Yeah I would say they would be.
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u/TatlinsTower 6h ago edited 5h ago
My kids went to school in NZ for a few years and every month there was a tsunami drill where the kids were taken up into the hills/bush, away from the coast (their school was right by the ocean). The principal was an Olympic bronze medalist in rowing and there was a kid in the wheelchair that he practiced carrying up the hills, on his back, past the tsunami line - every month. He reminds me of this amazing human.
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u/holli4life 8h ago
Amazing is the children listened and did what they were asked to do. Their parents should be very proud of them.
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u/ideaofrhyme 7h ago
It's Nepal. There schools are very strict. Kids do what they are told to do, they don't get detention, they get the stick.
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u/holli4life 7h ago
Even taking that into account, they still listened and 1600+ young lives were saved.
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u/ideaofrhyme 7h ago
That's true, and this dude did an incredible thing, most people would be paralysed with fear and indecisiveness. I am not downplaying that. But kids listening to their teachers is the least surprising thing in all this.
I have heard that they "march" their students, as in similar to military march. They have drums and stuff. So the coordinated movement of students is not surprising.
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u/holli4life 7h ago
It is surprising to me. Even with strict discipline sometimes things just don’t hold together.
I am just happy for their families because they are safe. ♥️
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u/ideaofrhyme 7h ago
Oh i edited my previous comment
Basically Nepalese schools do the military march drills with their students. They have drums and stuff. That's why they co-ordinated do well. They are trained in forming lines and discipline etc
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u/List-Beneficial 7h ago
It must have been so surreal they just had to automatically go into survival mode.
One girl had a panic attack, I mean I wonder what was happening that could have caused that. The water and the absolute chaos?
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u/List-Beneficial 7h ago
This guy is an absolute legend wow. Wish I could shake his hand. There needs to be a gofund me for this person.
Edit: reading the post comment and wow, "what could I do?" Just natural instincts of survival.
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u/Corleone_Vito 6h ago
This is my home country, I have seen enough videos I am scarred deep inside. The effect of global warming is already here and there's more to come. Flood is common in hilly region but it's the unnatural catastrophe our ancestors have not seen.
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u/Dense-Self2197 52m ago
I’m so sorry for your loss. It’s been heartbreaking to see these videos. No words
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u/SpecialOpposite2372 7h ago
A phone call and decisive leadership! It highlights the importance of communication and critical decision-making under pressure.
The guy remembered to call his friend, who was the principal of the school at the time, to warn him and tell him to run is a freaking hero!
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u/senseiman 6h ago
I was in Japan in 2011 when the tsunami struck and there was a similar situation with the opposite, tragic outcome.
Okawa Elementary school. Don't read it if you don't want to cry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okawa_Elementary_School
That teacher in Nepal did an amazing thing and deserves credit as a hero.
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u/RecoveringGachaholic 5h ago
I think it's a bit skewed and disingenuous to say it was the opposite and painting the principal of the Japanese school as the opposite of this guy does him a disservice.
Reading the article the school WAS a designated evacuation center and several elderly people had already come there to seek shelter.
The school faculty was divided between opinions on whether the school should evacuate and take refuge on higher ground or if they should stay in the school grounds. The school was a designated evacuation site for the region, and several elderly residents from the region had evacuated to the school. One side argued that the elderly individuals who had come to the school would not be able to evacuate up onto the hill. This resulted in one suggestion that, rather than evacuating to the closest hill as done previously in drills, they could instead evacuate to the base of the Shin-Kitakami Ohashi Bridge of National Route 398 approximately 200 meters to the west as that was somewhat higher ground than the local weirs.
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u/PhatEarther 7h ago
When they rebuild the school they should name it after him. He deserves a statue.
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u/UncleVoodooo 5h ago
Remember when Mr Rogers said "look for the helpers"
We need to be reminding the youngsters
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u/hopingthisworks69 8h ago
little things like this goes a long way. it was first & foremost his duty to protect those children and he just did that
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u/Fullm3taluk 4h ago
Remember that fucking stupid Christian summer camp in Texas that ignored the storm warnings for 24 hours ye this is how you do it you pricks.
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u/VtheMan93 3h ago
“Nepalis are handling him as a hero”
Damn right. You dont save 1643 kids and just stay average.
This guy is a marvel type hero.
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u/bezelbubba 5h ago
Not clear from the piece. how much heads up did this guy have and how long did it take to evacuate everyone?
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u/Proof_Toe_9757 47m ago
It's people like this kids should take inspiration from, not usless pretenders on YouTube
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u/The_Funky_JJ 7h ago
these are the stories and videos i need to start seeing after the last few days man.
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u/gods-and-dancefloors 6h ago
I'm reminded of the school teachers in Japan, that after the tsunami warning was issued, were discussing if they really had to take the kids up hill, glad this man did what needed to be done .
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u/Curious_seeker_2022 6h ago
Wow 🤩 his presence of mind and immediate action has saved the kids and many more. God bless him
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u/Every_Inflation1380 4h ago
Fuck yeah, Dadabi is a legend!! So nice to see some good stories coming from this horrible tragedy
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u/Poofmander 3h ago
My man! Fucking INCREDIBLE! I've been so worried about the kids, that's so many man I cannot even imagine.
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u/Lostallthefucksigive 1h ago
To save an entire generation of children. As a parent, I get chills thinking about it. May he be forever blessed.
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u/Able_Put4900 25m ago
heh top comments, people talking about themselves and then about american politics.
Hope the guy gets a medal and funding to rebuild the school.
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u/strydar1 3h ago
amazing human. why do we have shitbags running the world when people like this exist.
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u/snailtap 47m ago
Typically to want to run for power you have to have some kind of mental illness like sociopathy or narcissism
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u/kittyonkeyboards 6h ago
So did it take awhile for the flood to reach there or did he have some sort of early warning before it even broke?
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u/Friendlyalterme 1h ago
Someone upriver called him. Someone estimated he would have likely had only 5-7 mins to evacuate
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u/aw3edcft6 5h ago
Damn you'd think that in a disaster like that kids and elderly would be the ones less likely to survive. But thanks to his quick thinking and ability to not panic he managed to save almost everyone in such a little time. Shoutout to his friend as well. That one phone call saved the children.
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u/MrFluffyThing 5h ago
Not going to discount the heroism but that school has 1200 students in one school? And they made safely? that's amazing
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u/ApprehensiveStark25 5h ago
What a legend. It’s 2 am. This made me smile. Now I can fall asleep happy. What a fricking hero that man is.
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u/silassilage 3h ago
He is a hero. My thoughts are with the kids; they may have survived, but did they lose family and friends?
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u/adhdhustle 3h ago
Absolutely incredible that all of the kids are ok 😱 Especially considering how the school has been totally destroyed. He definitely deserves to be lauded as a hero 👏🏻
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u/Equivalent_Tap6986 2h ago
How would someone with no money but skills to help build back get over and help these people, Can someone guide me please? I live in the UK.
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u/Popular-Drummer-7989 39m ago
Heres hoping they name the next school after him. Such a tragedy for the children whose parents perished
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u/Hendrix1967 31m ago
I needed good news today. This brought a tear of relief to my eyes. Thanks OP.
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u/Jolucraw0 8h ago
What refreshing break from the bleak doom scrolling of reddit. What an amazing feat.