Posted on 09/07/2026 8:09:07 PM PDT by Fai Mao
More than 200 members of churches in Nepal's flood-hit Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts remain unaccounted for, while at least nine church buildings have been damaged following the devastating Bhote Koshi–Trishuli floods that struck the region on August 26.
The catastrophic flooding came through the Bhote Koshi River from the Kerung area of China, causing widespread destruction across Rasuwa and downstream areas.
Pastor Dr. Kiran Kumar Das, president of the National Churches Fellowship of Nepal (NCF Nepal), said that nine church buildings in the flood-affected districts of Rasuwa and Nuwakot have so far been damaged, while more than 200 church members remain unaccounted for.
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Weird this event wasn’t a major news story.
I watched thousands get washed away
Praying for them all.
Listening to the radio, I heard three miners (out of hundreds) were rescued over a week after the floods sealed off some mine shafts. They say there is a possibility of rescuing more but (as always) it’s a race against time.
Actually, after some investigation, about 250 were rescued in the immediate aftermath of the flood. But that’s from a starting total of 900 workers missing while they continue to dig to reach survivors.
3 days without water and it’s over.
What puzzles me is, that this event was likely preventable.
It takes some time to accumulate that much water.
So, when the slide happened, somebody could called an alarm and evacuated the areas downstream?!
From the pictures, it looks like no alarm whatsoever!
There was an alarm at the damn and most workers just barely escaped with their lives.
One guy jumps out of a tractor and beats feet uphill, as the water washed his tractor off the face of the earth.
🛐🛐🙏🙏✝️✝️
Go here - https://nepalitimes.com/nepal-avalanche-was-live-on-drone-camera
There is a video of the slide and 2 pics of the slide area afterwards. And read the article which has a lot of good info about how fast this all happened.
And remember where it happened - in the Himalaya. Not a lot of communications available.
Not with a sudden glacier collapse, which is what happened here. The huge volume of water was displaced almost immediately.
??Here, and I think in most of Western Europe, it was the lead news story for about a week.
??Here, and I think in most of Western Europe, it was the lead news story for about a week.
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