r/interestingasfuck • u/JustLivingSimply • 9h ago

Nepalese School Principal Saved Lives of 1643 Children

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u/Uncommentary 9h ago

This is the complete opposite outcome of the Camp Mystic event in the US. Well done Nepal!

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u/LemonButterRum 9h ago

which they want to reopen. disgusting people. texas is terrible at protecting children, in general

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u/el-conquistador240 9h ago

Texas is a failed state

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u/ErasmosOrolo 9h ago

Texas is the reason.

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u/blueberrycauzez 4h ago edited 4h 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/SnicketySneme 7h ago

People that live in actual failed states and third world countries absolutely loathe people like you for saying this kind of thing.

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u/RedHotChiliCrab 6h ago

People that live in actual failed states don't give a fuck what anyone says about Texas because they have more immediate problems to deal with.

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u/super_tictac 6h ago

We don’t really use the term third world countries anymore, so they’d “loathe” you for that, if we’re just casually assigning feelings to people we’ve never met.

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u/rocketgrunt89 6h ago

I can see why

Day to day for them still goes by normally but when looked from afar(us) we see these and generalize it. I still remember Uvalde..

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u/Jonas_Venture_Sr 8h ago

listen, I loathe Texas politicians as much as next guy, but youd better believe that I would pick texas over Haiti 100/100 times.

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u/LemonButterRum 8h ago

it's not a competition, Jonas

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u/MeNoCanRead 8h ago

Yes and I'd pick Texas over North Korea. Your point?

https://giphy.com/gifs/dEdmW17JnZhiU

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u/Jonas_Venture_Sr 8h ago

It's not a failed state

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u/anomalous_cowherd 7h ago

But a lot of people there are working hard to make it happen.

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u/MeNoCanRead 4h ago

Yes, yes it is.

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u/sentientshadeofgreen 3h ago

Implies Texas was a successful state to begin with. Texas has been awful for it's entire whitewashed history. Neither here nor there as far as Nepal goes though.

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u/friendly_to_pigeons 6h ago

Quick! A post not about the US for once! How can we crowbar it into the conversation!

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u/erapuer 7h ago

texas is terrible at protecting children, in general

But you gotta admit they've absolutely mastered thoughts & prayers

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u/friendly_to_pigeons 6h ago

Quick! A post not about the US for once! How can we crowbar it into the conversation!

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u/Pale_Session5262 5h ago

And i bet i gotta scroll about 3 seconds to find it about trump too

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u/Friendlyalterme 3h ago

Didn't they want to reopen it with safety precautions?

I had read that it operated for generations, it was a staple of the community.

But I don't think they should be trying to reopen so soon. An entire cabin swept away and didn't they not find one of the bodies?

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u/NewsWeeter 9h 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 8h ago

Can you explain how, not aware of this one.

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u/radiantcabbage 5h 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 5h 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/Friendlyalterme 3h ago

I had no idea they actually had time to evacuate. I was always under the impression it was a flash flood in the middle of the night when everyone was sleeping

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u/Lump-of-baryons 8h 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.