Representative Jeff McNeely - August 31, 2026

So we have a major global catastrophe in Nepal.

Right now, they're up to over 900 people have died.

I don't know how many is missing.

Last I heard was 1,500.

It's probably going on up into the 3,000 and 4,000.

Showed pictures of it.

A wall of mud and sludge and whatever else came through.

Those little villages, they're not well built.

And just washed away everything.

You know, it's kind of crazy.

They actually had monitors set up, but there was nothing really done to prepare to stop this.

They knew it was going to happen sooner or later.

When a natural dam of rock and ice is what's protecting you, odds are it's not going to last forever.

And so it's tragedy.

I will say, thank God, a school teacher felt the earthquake.

Because that's what had happened when it broke.

It actually shook.

It had like about a four and a half on the Richter scale earthquake.

And he realized something and evacuated to school.

About 800, 900 kids were saved.

School totally demolished, but got them to higher ground.

So the earthquake actually happened.

And then it was about probably... 30 to 40 minutes before the flood actually got to the city of Nepal and in.

So there was some time.

Unfortunately, a lot of people didn't understand what was going on, even though this had been talked about a lot.