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15 hikers feared missing after 'terrifying' flash flooding hits Grand Canyon (www.bbc.com)

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[–] Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wonder what the odds are that I'll be seeing this in my feed way more than I saw anything about Nepal. I'm guessing high. Just like how people who were mourning Dolly Parton and Tim Curry kept asking who the third person is going to be, while literally hundreds of people got killed in the same week in Nepal.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean it’s not surprising people are more affected by things that feel closer emotionally.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 11 points 1 day ago

Or geographically.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've been watching the developments in Nepal. I've even found a published study from last year that predicted the events exactly : glacial lake expanding over the last 15 years, high risk of GLOF (https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/jtha/article/view/80918/).