Could what happened in Nepal—that horrendous torrent—occur elsewhere?

The answer: many places.

As we all know, a massive disaster struck northern and central Nepal on August 26, 2026, when a high-altitude glacial collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border sent a catastrophic flow of ice, rock, mud, and water nearly sixty miles down the Trishuli and Bhotekoshi river basins.

But high-altitude glacial collapses—and devastating Glacial Lake Outburst Floods—are not unique to Nepal.

Globally, an estimated fifteen million people live in downstream paths exposed to sudden glacial hazards, driven by warming temperatures, retreating glaciers, and unstable meltwater lakes.

In the U.S., one of America’s most dangerous volcanoes could one day unleash a disaster resembling the tsunami-like flash flood and landslide that devastated Nepal.

Washington’s Mount Rainier is an active, heavily glaciated stratovolcano looming over more than 3.3 million people across the Seattle-Tacoma metro area, with ice-covered slopes capable of unleashing deadly mud and debris with little warning.

More than 60,000 residents live within the volcano’s technical danger zone, where fast-moving rivers of water, rock, mud and debris behave like wet concrete, bulldozing everything in their path within fifteen minutes. They can occur with or without a volcanic eruption.

That’s called a reality check.

In the Northwest, coastal communities face constant peril in places like Suicide Basin near Juneau, where torrents of water periodically burst forth without warning, ripping through municipal infrastructure, washing out airstrips, and encroaching on quiet residential homes.

Farther south along the Pacific Cordillera in British Columbia, towering peaks and steep glacial valleys tell a similar story.

As permafrost melting deepens,  fragile, centuries-old moraines face structural collapse, sending massive cascades of rock, mud, and meltwater roaring into the valleys below. (A moraine is an accumulation of dirt, rock, gravel, and boulders scraped up and deposited by a glacier as it moves across the land.)

Switzerland, France, and Italy are also susceptible. While early-warning and engineering controls are advanced, outburst events from subglacial pockets and unstable glacial margins remain a constant threat to Alpine villages, tourism corridors, and hydroelectric systems

The natural disaster in August is believed to have been triggered by an avalanche or glacier collapse which sent a huge chunk of ice roughly 2,000 feet wide falling down thousands of feet into the Lhende Khola river valley along the Nepal-Tibet border.

The giant ice shard mixed with water, rock, and debris created a sudden and powerful surge of muddy floodwater that rushed into the Bhote Koshi River, devastating the Rasuwa district of Nepal.

According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA), confirmed deaths in Nepal stand at 1,356, with nearly 5,000 people (4,994) remaining missing. Over forty deaths and hundreds missing have also been reported on the Chinese side of the border in Tibet. (Prayer need.)

Satellite mapping by the U.S.G.S. confirmed that millions of cubic meters of ice and rock dropped nearly 1,900 meters from a glacier high in Langtang National Park. The impact generated seismic energy equivalent to a magnitude 5.2 earthquake.

The area just above the glacier that caused such destruction in Nepal is Gosaikunda, revered as the earthly home of Lord Shiva (the pagan “god of destruction”).

According to Hindu mythology, Shiva created the lake by driving his holy trident into the mountain to draw cool water after drinking the poison that threatened to destroy the world. The resulting outflow formed the Trishuli River below.  Apparently he droive his trident into the region again.

Ironically, Mount Rainier has long been considered sacred grounds by Native Americans and likewise now by the New Age movement. It is also a “hotspot” for “Bigfoot” sightings and was where a pilot named Kenneth Arnold spotted strange aerial objects in 1947 that were soon christened as “flying saucers.”

Occult watch as well as prayer need indeed.