A community is in mourning after catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-China border on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“I was, you know, saddened, and so upset and worried about our people,” said Harish Hamal, a Nepali New Yorker NY1 met on Thursday at Nepali Bhanchha Ghar, a restaurant in Jackson Heights.<\/p>\n
Videos of the disaster show water coming without warning, people running, and entire villages being buried. The flooding happened in a part of Nepal and China’s Tibet region that is a popular tourist destination.<\/p>\n
Yamuna Shrestha, the owner of Nepali Bhanchha Ghar, said she called her sister back in Nepal, who informed her that their cousin was visiting a temple in the area when the floods hit. They’ve been unable to reach their cousin.<\/p>\n
“She [was] going to visit [the] temple there, now missing,” said Shrestha. “All day I’m sad, I don’t know how to say.”<\/p>\n
Yashoda Nepal said one of her extended family members, who was working on a hydropower plant in the flood-hit region, is also missing.<\/p>\n
“This is painful situation. We cannot say anything. We are speechless,” said Nepal. “I feel so bad, heartbreaking situation.”<\/p>\n
Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a statement on Thursday, saying in part, “Flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border has taken hundreds of lives, and the search for those still missing continues.<\/p>\n
To our Nepali and Tibetan neighbors: this city knows what it means to grieve a place you left and still call home. You are not carrying this alone. New York City stands with you.”<\/p>\n
As the scale of the damage becomes clearer, some Nepali New Yorkers say they believe the country will rebuild, even if it takes years.<\/p>\n
“Nepali people are very strong people; they help each other; they have a great mindset,” said Hamal.<\/p>\n
The United Nations’ humanitarian chief described the floods as “horrifying.” The U.N. said it has allocated $2 million from its emergency response fund to help with medical care, shelter and water.<\/p>\n
When it comes to the breakdown of nationalities of the hundreds of foreigners who are missing, most are Indian citizens, followed by American citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A community is in mourning after catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-China border on Wednesday. “I was, you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2476,2296,25,2025,231,9,24,12,6019,63,122,124,123,27,200],"class_list":["post-331532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-community","tag-app-human-interest","tag-app-top-stories","tag-community-news","tag-human-interest","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-noorulain-khawaja","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}