Flooding in Nepal

In case anyone is interested, it is possible to donate Tesco ClubCard points to the Red Cross disaster fund. No guarantee it will go to Nepal, of course, but worth considering anyway.

Casdon

Nepal is a low income, developing country for goodness sake monami, and the UK is amongst the richest nations in the world. They give us their best fighting men for our army.

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5000 now missing and a huge amount of work men trapped underground I can’t bear thinking about it It’s so so sad and frightening

They are accepting aid from South Korea.
Money from other countries and elsewhere..

Unicef is taking donations for example
www.unicef.org/emergencies/nepal-flood

Money is the best way to help.

Yes Nepal is accepting monetary aid but not search and rescue teams.
I should have specified .

Nepal is refusing foreign aid Not actually Esmay they are very accepting of monetary aid what they are saying is they have enough search and rescue in their own country, and last time in a earthquake (I think it was about ten years ago) it became very chaotic with so many extra people there, it made it more dangerous.
They are a strong thoughtful and resourceful race I pray they can overcome this and there aren’t any further slides etc

Poor things .
I watched the devastating news footage .
I experienced this on a much smaller level and it was terrifying.
Nepal is refusing foreign aid .

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monami - I needed yo read your post twice as I was convinced I couldn't be reading it correctly!

Luckygirl3

I agree that the world needs to pull together, but making that happen is too far on the horizon.

We need to set an example and do whatever we possibly can. We cannot shrug our shoulders and regard it as someone else's problem.

I’m afraid that isn’t going to happen. You only have to read posts on this small site and see that people are just giving the nod to saving the planet.

Now there is fear that another flood will occur in the coming days.
Those poor people have suffered enough. That flooding was terrifying.

monami

as sad as it is, nepal didnt give us a penny for our floods, yet he gives nepal 5b million of our taxes whilst we break our cars in potholes, and the elderly are eating crusts

That’s got to be the most selfish post I ever heard I hope you’re not a real person as you have such a horrible viewpoint How can a poor country like Nepal help the fifth richest country in the world, what a totally stupid comment. Don’t you have any compassion in your bones.

Nepal is a very,very poor country. Kindness is not something tit for tat.

monami

as sad as it is, nepal didnt give us a penny for our floods, yet he gives nepal 5b million of our taxes whilst we break our cars in potholes, and the elderly are eating crusts

How can you possibly compare these things?
Surely you are joking?

There’s a Gurkha base in my nearest town, and the community Facebook page today is full of sympathy and support. The Rotary are in town collecting for them, they are very much part of the community - and the Town Council put up a message of support, with this lovely picture.

It's heartbreaking to hear about this catastrophe and I hope that we will be giving the poor beleaguered people of Nepal as much help as possible at this difficult time. I've never been there but members of our family have and they have told us how lovely the Nepalese are. Plus o/h at one time lived in a town fairly near a Gurkha base, he tells me a more disciplined, polite and respectful people would be hard to find, those who lived close by had the upmost respect for them.

Here, there are so many places that could be affected by flash floods when they're caused largely by torrential downpours.
It's good to have hilly land managed to slow flow in streams & slow run-off with trees & vegetation, but we never know where the next cloudburst's going to happen.
That's how I can't envisage how we can all be protected, even in the UK. Nature is unpredictable & there are so many ways a disaster can happen.
It's good that we understand more ways to help prevent floods, but we really need to stay on the road to net zero don't we, to have any chance of having a relatively stable natural environment where these dramatic events happen only rarely?

Luckygirl3

orly

The scenes are unbelievably frightening. It shows how much bigger than the human scale Mother Nature is and how futile (and misguided) attempts to control or reverse climate change.

Our attempts to create climate change were not futile - they were very effective indeed.

It is less about climate change than it is about not paying attention where you build and what nature can and will do, and spending enough money of managing risk.

We do it too - homes here are on the 100 year flood plain; homes build in York moved water to existing homes.

teabagwoman

And in a country poorly equipped to deal with disasters.

It would seem not; moving equipment and rescue parties there within hours

Sueinkent

Really horrifying. The result of decades of deforestation by the Chinese I fear.

I don’t know about deforestation but there has been lot of talk about the safety of the Mega Medog Dam.
It is being built in a very seismic sensitive area.
But we’ll never know, will we. 🤷‍♀️

Nepal doesn't have "a penny for our floods". Seriously, it's one of the poorest countries on the planet.

As others have said, such lovely people. I do hope they can come through this.

Nepal is a low income, developing country for goodness sake monami, and the UK is amongst the richest nations in the world. They give us their best fighting men for our army.

as sad as it is, nepal didnt give us a penny for our floods, yet he gives nepal 5b million of our taxes whilst we break our cars in potholes, and the elderly are eating crusts

.Good on your son Laura - the people need every bit of help they can get and he will be a great person to assist with his xperience.

orly

The scenes are unbelievably frightening. It shows how much bigger than the human scale Mother Nature is and how futile (and misguided) attempts to control or reverse climate change.

Our attempts to create climate change were not futile - they were very effective indeed.