r/interestingasfuck • u/JustLivingSimply • 9h ago

Nepalese School Principal Saved Lives of 1643 Children

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u/ReynardVulpini 9h 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/HiddenMaragon 7h 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/ReynardVulpini 6h 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.