Indra Prasad Timilsina saved the three cattle that keep his family moved when floodwaters submerged large swaths of Nepal’s funds, but the river was the source of all the other food.
One of the many communities in Kathmandu that has experienced devastating trip storms that disproportionately hit the city’s most underprivileged and resilient residents is the one he calls house.
In the storm, the Bagmati river and its tributaries, which crisscross the Kathmandu river, burst into their banks, causing thousands of people to live in the thin timber and plate metal shacks along their coastlines.
” This is like a dream. I have never seen such an extraordinary disaster in my life”, the 65-year-old told AFP.
” Everything is gone”, he added. ” If you are dead, you do n’t have to worry about anything. But if you survive, you have to face these issues”.
Timilsina earns a reasonable life by the creek in Tripureshwor marketing milk from his calves to his neighbors, many of whom have fled remote Nepal’s poverty-stricken villages to eke out a precarious livelihood on the margins of the city.
The valley lapped at his feet as he and his family fled their homes shortly after midnight on Saturday, leaving them with only the cow to move higher up the hill.
The partners left their homes, returning home to what was left, along with hundreds of others who had worked to remove any remaining foods bags, clean the mud-drenched walls, and collect any remaining food.
Timilsina claimed that the nine sacks of dog feed he had stored for his cows had been ruined by the waters.
” We can survive”, he said,” but if I do n’t feed them soon, they’ll die”.
– ‘ Shattered by rising waterways ‘-
Almost 200 people across the money and elsewhere in Nepal were killed in the season’s storms, with nearly three hundred more also missing.
More than 4, 000 people were transported to safety by troops search and rescue team, and relief workers are frantically clearing the capital’s roads that have been obstructed by landslides.
Nearly one million people live in Kathmandu, and nearly one million of those in the area are the poorest citizens.
Not far from Timilsina’s house, more than two dozen servers at a community-run class were shattered by the rising lakes.
Professor Shyam Bihari Mishra told AFP,” They are of no use then.” ” Our kids will remain deprived of knowledge”.
During the monsoon season between June and September, dangerous rain-related floods and landslides are common in South Asia.
According to researchers, climate change is making their frequency and severity worse.
Parts of Kathmandu saw about 240 millimetres ( 9.4 inches ) of rain in the 24 hours to Saturday morning, the most intense downpour in more than two decades.
Even without the report rainfall, rain floods are a normal fact of life for the estimated 29, 000 squatters among Kathmandu’s industrial weak, who build by riverbanks for lack of cheap house somewhere.
” This year alone we’ve run up to our roof several times”, Bishnu Maya Shrestha, 62, told AFP.
” But we did n’t anticipate the flood to swell all of our homes this time,” he said.
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Rescue workers carry the lifeless body of a sufferer who was trapped under a flood caused by heavy rains in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, September 29, 2024. ( AP )
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