{"id":71669,"date":"2025-05-09T18:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/may\/09\/nepal-disaster-risk-resilience-infrastructure-climate-crisis-extreme-weather-aid-funding"},"modified":"2025-05-09T18:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:00:54","slug":"if-i-had-to-choose-id-prefer-the-earthquake-the-2015-disaster-left-nepal-in-ruins-now-record-rains-wreak-fresh-havoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71669","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If I had to choose, I\u2019d prefer the earthquake\u2019: the 2015 disaster left Nepal in ruins, now record rains wreak fresh havoc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite attempts to build resilience by improving infrastructure and first response, extreme weather events and US aid cuts have left many feeling vulnerable<\/p>\n<p>When the monsoon rains came last September, they swept away most of the village of Panauti, in the foothills of the Nepali Himalayas. The Roshi River overflowed after the unprecedented rainfall, triggering landslides and destroying most of the roads and bridges.<\/p>\n<p>Peering through the thick blanket of relentless rain \u201cfelt like waiting for morning to arrive so we could see the world again\u201d, says Bishnu Humagain. \u201cWe lost everything \u2013 our home, our agriculture, and all of our belongings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/may\/09\/nepal-disaster-risk-resilience-infrastructure-climate-crisis-extreme-weather-aid-funding\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite attempts to build resilience by improving infrastructure and first response, extreme weather events and US aid cuts have left many feeling vulnerableWhen the monsoon rains came last September, they swept away most of the village of Panauti, in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4743,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[247,6,2331,263,65,455,313,1149,59,393,2466,760,1709,241,3310,79,61,45,3251,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aid","category-business","category-climate-crisis","category-earthquakes","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-food-security","category-global-development","category-humanitarian-response","category-infrastructure","category-mountains","category-natural-disasters","category-nepal","category-nepal-earthquake-2015","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-usaid","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71670,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71669\/revisions\/71670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}