Wednesday, August 26 began as a regular day for Prakash Pyakurel, a 43-year-old shopkeeper in the bustling town of Dhunge Bazaar in the northern belt of Central Nepal. Then sometime around 9:10 a.m. came the muffled crackle of a police loudspeaker. The words were “impossible to hear” over the noise of the town, he says.
Pyakurel took a couple of minutes to piece together that the announcement was calling for evacuation. He lost time closing the shop before sprinting home to alert his parents and daughter. In their living room, just a few hundred meters from the Trishuli River, they spent more vital minutes arguing over whether to head for...
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