Nepal’s devastating 2021 floods show need for early warning systems in the Himalayas: ‘I lost everything’
“We have never seen such floods here. I lost everything I had saved until now. My hotel is gone, and so is my shop”, he said, pointing towards the debris of his multi-storied hotel in Melamchi Bazaar, beyond which lies massive boulders and rubble, even two years after the disaster, on lands that had once been lush paddy fields and trout farms.