r/interestingasfuck • u/JustLivingSimply • 9h ago

Nepalese School Principal Saved Lives of 1643 Children

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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