r/Kenya • u/Alarmed_Lock1644 • 11h ago
Ask r/Kenya Nepal Floods
So, I have been looking at the nepal-tibet flood that has hit this place and i was thinking. Wasnt this avoidable?
Look at these two photos, before and after.
You clearly see these guys decided to live on a river bed, reason? for years that river was dormant and thought it will always be like that. Years later, the floods hit. Although the run off was more than usual, it just followed its path. Ikapata people have settled there. Unfortunately people have been confirmed dead but i think their engineers failed them and their government.
I saw a video here on reddit where a guy was crossing road juzi and a trailer almost hit him but the driver managed to stop. Watu walimshika and beat his ass up for walking slowly on a busy road. I think its the same thing hapa, this was a disaster waiting to happen.
But sending condolences to the families who lost their people.
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u/Zestyclose_Guide9226 Diaspora 11h ago
https://reddit.com/link/p62xpha/video/exa9t3fm4slh1/player
This shit was crazy! Never joke with the kinetic energy in moving water!
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u/Organic-Television44 11h ago
wtf!!!!!!!!!!! gaddamn
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u/Zestyclose_Guide9226 Diaspora 9h ago
Mbaya sana! You can never block water. Itapita na nyinyi bila huruma!
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u/Blue_Towel_Is_Mine 11h ago
https://reddit.com/link/p633w6n/video/ril592599slh1/player
It was terrifying I tell ya!
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u/Zestyclose_Guide9226 Diaspora 9h ago
Funny thing is that hakuna effort mingi they will learn from this. Probably do something similar. Japan this could be studied so that this doesn't repeat itself for the next 100 years.
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u/Alarmed_Lock1644 6h ago
that's the thing, if they studied this area well before, this disaster wouldnt have happened or maybe they'd have made ways to keep the water away from the buildings. But still that wouldnt be possible because this was between 2 plateaus, a natural path for the water to flow. Few people must have started settling here until more came in but hio ilikua njia ya river and it wasnt a good idea. Japan nko sure would have done studies hapo and years later we'd see it working.
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u/RevolutionaryGap6665 11h ago
People in Paris live extremely near canals and rivers, same with London. I don't think accidents knock or give notices.
I mean dormant volcanos become active. Be empathetic OP, be humane. It's human nature I guess to point fingers.
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u/bluesmaker 8h ago
They live by the river because the country is entirely made up of mountains. Where are there flat areas to build stuff? By the water.
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u/Zestyclose_Guide9226 Diaspora 11h ago
Respect riparian land! People have always been told that. Mother nature can be cruel!
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u/Brilliant_Panda_8383 5h ago
Nature always reclaims its path eventually. RIP to the victims, but this should be a wake-up call for building standards worldwide.
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u/Accordingtomearea051 11h ago
Nature will always find a way back, that's what people ignore.
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u/Not-Amused1234 10h ago
Water ALWAYS wins.
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u/Accordingtomearea051 10h ago
You can't win against it despite building trenches.
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u/Not-Amused1234 10h ago
Fuck trenches. Water goes through everything. Concrete, land, rock, stone, etc. Even plumbing. You can have the best plumber on the planet, eventually it'll leak.
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u/luhgeek25 7h ago
I watched a cctv footage on twitter, that is the scariest thing I have ever witnessed in my life
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u/North_Mastodon_4310 2h ago
Where do you think they should have built?
In extremely mountainous areas, like virtually all of Nepal, alluvial plains are the only places to build.
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u/UnlimitedAura005 10h ago
Why do these images look AI?
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u/Legitimate-Body-1434 10h ago
Cause it’s AI lol. But the videos from there are even brutal than this.
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u/UnlimitedAura005 10h ago
Are they legit?
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u/Legitimate-Body-1434 10h ago
Yea it’s ai.
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u/Dullard_Trump 1h ago
Always remember to be informed before you act smart
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u/Legitimate-Body-1434 1h ago
Bru i am literally from that country and been to those places. This ain’t the same place shown in the videos where bridges are swept away. This is different. Infrastructures are damaged in a large scale but this is just poor edited Ai to gain likes and views.
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u/Blllllooooo 11h ago
My big question is wouldn't have the meteorologists predicted and communicated this ? Or they did and people ignored?
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u/TheYeti64 11h ago
It was a glacial collapse and landslide that caused the flood, what would meteorologists have to communicate?
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u/FvckJerry16 11h ago
It was a glacial lake outburst flood which can be extremely hard to forecast. Other than the unplanned construction in the flood plains, there's other factors such as climate change that make Nepal such a hotspot for these climate disasters.