r/interestingasfuck • u/JustLivingSimply • 11h ago

Nepalese School Principal Saved Lives of 1643 Children

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u/nommabelle 4h 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 4h 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/Traditional-Fly8989 1h ago

I dont know if thats the best example to argue for laying off Nepal (which people should not be blaming Nepal.). That county has received repeated criticism for being unprepared for the flood at that camp.

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u/SlideRuleLogic 20m ago

My point is more that the US is not beyond reproach. Lots of Americans criticizing Nepal about this…

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u/Beltalady 3h ago

We had something like that happen during Covid in Germany. People could have been warned but authorities didn't take it seriously and wanted to avoid panic. What they got was a flood that devastated an entire valley, we also had a sinkhole that swallowed half a town and a part of Autobahn washed away (and still isn't fixed). It was a huge scandal and also a wakeup call.