Nepal-Tibet floods: How a warning and one teacher’s instincts saved an entire school

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The warning that would upend life in Nepal's Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School came just after the 9 a.m. bell had rung last Wednesday. Headmaster Rajendra Dawadi was in the building when he could hear his accountant shouting: "The flood is coming, the flood is coming!" As teachers began receiving panicked phone calls from relatives, a roaring wave of mud water was already making its way through the valley upstream, swallowing anything in its path and flattening entire towns. Dawadi and his colleagues realized they may only have minutes to save the lives of hundreds of students. Built in the wake of Nepal's devastating 2015 earthquake that killed nearly 9,000 people, the school had been constructed on a peninsula of sorts, squeezed in between the Trishuli River and a hydropower canal. It was right in the middle of the flood wave's imminent path of destruction. "We immediately stopped the classes and rang the bell," Dawadi told Reuters in an interview. The decision saved the

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