The several communities affected live along two rivers that stream down from the mountains, the river Biges and Kapundik. It is believed that due landslides, coupled with the week-long heavy rains caused the two the rivers to swell to an unimaginable size.
The floods reached around 2 meters in height sweeping away anything and everything along the way. Many of the houses on high stilts were lucky, but not lucky enough as everything in their houses was ruined by the water.
