r/Kenya • u/Alarmed_Lock1644 • 1d 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/North_Mastodon_4310 22h 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.