| Nepal flash floods 15:39 - Aug 26 with 1639 views | Perublue |
Saw 8 confirmed dead … I think we’re sadly looking at something like 8,000.
Early still but it looks like an earthquake triggered a glacial lake to come hurtling down from 6,000 metres .. towns lower down seem to have a least got an alert..rush hour too. |  |
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| Nepal flash floods on 17:01 - Aug 26 with 1488 views | Keno |
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| Nepal flash floods on 18:08 - Aug 26 with 1355 views | LegendofthePhoenix |
I worked with many Nepalese people until very recently. Lovely, honest, kind, hardworking people. This is a complete tragedy. Thoughts are with them. |  |
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| Nepal flash floods on 18:21 - Aug 26 with 1319 views | eirannach_gorm |
| Nepal flash floods on 17:01 - Aug 26 by Keno |
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Saw the first clip on Sky News and it shocked me but the second one is very upsetting. Apocalyptic and horrific. |  | | |
| Nepal flash floods on 19:09 - Aug 26 with 1259 views | Whos_blue |
Just truly horrific scenes.
Those poor people looked like ants being washed away.
They had no chance. |  |
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| Nepal flash floods on 19:12 - Aug 26 with 1250 views | armchaircritic59 |
That after the heaviest months rainfall in Japan for decades last month. Climate change doesn't exist you know, so some tell me. |  | | |
| Nepal flash floods on 19:15 - Aug 26 with 1240 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Nepal flash floods on 18:08 - Aug 26 by LegendofthePhoenix |
I worked with many Nepalese people until very recently. Lovely, honest, kind, hardworking people. This is a complete tragedy. Thoughts are with them. |
Likewise although stopped a longer time ago. Working on these very issues as it happens. An amazing country with wonderful people. [Post edited 26 Aug 19:16]
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| Nepal flash floods on 19:43 - Aug 26 with 1186 views | mellowblue |
| Nepal flash floods on 19:12 - Aug 26 by armchaircritic59 |
That after the heaviest months rainfall in Japan for decades last month. Climate change doesn't exist you know, so some tell me. |
except the cause was reportedly an earthquake which fractured a mountain lake causing the torrent of water. But let's blame the climate.
I dread to think how many are dead. Didn't stand a chance. [Post edited 26 Aug 19:44]
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| Nepal flash floods on 19:51 - Aug 26 with 1147 views | Ryorry |
| Nepal flash floods on 19:43 - Aug 26 by mellowblue |
except the cause was reportedly an earthquake which fractured a mountain lake causing the torrent of water. But let's blame the climate.
I dread to think how many are dead. Didn't stand a chance. [Post edited 26 Aug 19:44]
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Don’t let’s start arguing on this one eh (generally, not aimed at anyone individually).
Too awful. |  |
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| Nepal flash floods on 20:11 - Aug 26 with 1103 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Nepal flash floods on 19:43 - Aug 26 by mellowblue |
except the cause was reportedly an earthquake which fractured a mountain lake causing the torrent of water. But let's blame the climate.
I dread to think how many are dead. Didn't stand a chance. [Post edited 26 Aug 19:44]
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It’s too early to tell. The initial reports I saw said there was no seismic activity before the event. It likely the event itself would have been picked up on seismic monitoring stations.
Irrespective of the particular cause of this event, climate change is having a massive impact on mountainous regions around the world. | |
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| Nepal flash floods on 22:57 - Aug 26 with 950 views | Dubtractor |
| Nepal flash floods on 18:21 - Aug 26 by eirannach_gorm |
Saw the first clip on Sky News and it shocked me but the second one is very upsetting. Apocalyptic and horrific. |
Yep, that second video is horrifying, those poor people. |  |
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| Nepal flash floods on 23:03 - Aug 26 with 934 views | positivity |
| Nepal flash floods on 19:43 - Aug 26 by mellowblue |
except the cause was reportedly an earthquake which fractured a mountain lake causing the torrent of water. But let's blame the climate.
I dread to think how many are dead. Didn't stand a chance. [Post edited 26 Aug 19:44]
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later reports suggest that it wasn't an earthquake, but a landslide. horrific | |
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| Nepal flash floods on 09:18 - Aug 27 with 648 views | Steve_M |
It looks utterly horrendous, those poor people with absolutely no chance to escape.
Looks like a glacier collapsed:
An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world. — Nahel Belgherze (@wxnb.bsky.social) 2026-08-27T07:24:54.682Z
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| Nepal flash floods on 09:33 - Aug 27 with 615 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Nepal flash floods on 09:18 - Aug 27 by Steve_M |
It looks utterly horrendous, those poor people with absolutely no chance to escape.
Looks like a glacier collapsed:
An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world. — Nahel Belgherze (@wxnb.bsky.social) 2026-08-27T07:24:54.682Z
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Looks like a rock slide that unfortunately had the glacier sitting on top (hence the large water volume, as that ice would have turned to water pretty quickly). You can see a large area of rock to the left of the main glacier tongue has gone. That'd be my best guess.
Yes, horrendous. I don't know how far down valley the casulaties were, but in the steep and narrow valleys in that part of the world floods and flows shift down them pretty quickly and you don't get a lot of warning. Poor sods. | |
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