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Aerial views show damaged buildings and infrastructure along the Trishuli river in Nepal's Nuwakot district.(www.youtube.com)
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[-]Tom_Bombadil7(+6|0)

Three buildings remain standing (shown in the video between 0:10 and 0:19) deserve close inspection, because the river is still flowing directly next to them.

In addition to this, a school bus is also trapped between them, and it rests upon MASSIVE BOULDER that is easily 2x the size of the bus (by volume); and both appear to have been lodged in between these structures.

I would love to read a comprehensive review of the method of construction, and details about how each foundation was anchored to the ground in that specific location. It should be titled, "How to build a boulder-resistant home beside a Himalayan river that can survive a mountainslide-induced catastrophic flood."

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[-]pumpkin4(+3|0)

Yeah - it's a standard throughout South Asia to build these concrete walls and floors, propping up each section with temporary wooden tree poles. I'm not sure what they use for rebar, or how they use it, which probably differs somewhat around the subcontinent.

I think the video is 50+ kilometers downstream. The tourist center that was hit 20+ km downstream is relatively buried, under which there must be numerous people.

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[-]Tom_Bombadil2(+1|0)

The border crossing was obliterated by high velocity land/mudslides as if it were hit by a train.

Nothing short of artillery bunkers will survive that.

These buildings endured rapid floodwaters and rushing debris, and endured where the others collapsed.

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[-]JasonCarswell2(+1|0)

Oriental.

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