Cement, Design, Foundation: How Nepal's Green House Survived Doomsday Floods
The mint-green home became a viral attraction after floodwaters destroyed the surrounding area, while Nepal’s death toll climbed above 1,100, officials said.
- In Dhunge Bazaar, Nepal, the home of Chhatra Bahadur Pyakurel stands as a "miracle" green house, remaining intact while a ferocious torrent of water, mud, and debris swept away everything nearby last week.
- Continuous rains and a massive glacier collapse in the Himalayan region between Nepal and Tibet caused the catastrophic flooding, creating soft mud that hindered helicopter rescue efforts.
- Rescue teams extracted over 11,000 survivors, while the death toll rose above 1100 on Wednesday, with nearly 4000 people missing and over 1200 homes destroyed in the Nuwakot district.
- Pyakurel, 67, watched the carnage from his roof fearing for his grandson who had left for school; the family reunited the day after the flood despite losing important documents.
- Viral photographs of the house have drawn visitors to climb the ridge to see "the viral house" as traffic returns to Dhunge Bazaar; the location is now pinned on Google Maps as a flood-proof attraction.
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She became known as the "miracled green house." The Pyakurel family house in Nuwakot, Nepal, stood up when a fierce torrent of water, mud and debris dragged everything around her last week. The video of the house soon spread across social networks, showing the family, helpless, looking from the balcony of the third floor to the fury of the flood that was colliding against her house, with the waves of mud. But the property remained firm.
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Cement, design, foundation: How Nepal's green house survived doomsday floods
When a monster flash flood tore through Nepal’s Trishuli River basin, everything in the landscape were swept away. But one 40-year-old mint-green house in Nuwakot’s Dunge Bazaar stood its ground and saved the six family members from the cascading floods. What made this ordinary building withstand a disaster that destroyed everything around it?
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Green house 'invulnerable' to mud tsunami in Nepal KATHMANDU – A green house in Nepal has become an internet sensation after it remained standing when a torrential mudslide submerged most homes and swept away nearby buildings, reported news portal Gulf News. The incident occurred when massive floods hit Nuwakot, Bagmati region, on Wednesday last week. The video footage was uploaded on …
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