North Texas groups mobilize aid after devastating floods in Nepal

For thousands of families in North Texas, images of catastrophic flooding in Tibet and northern Nepal are not from some distant disaster. They are from home.Floodwaters have washed away homes, roads and communications, leaving more than 400 people reported dead and thousands missing.North Texas helps Nepal flood victimsNorth Texas is home to the largest Nepalese population in the United States, and the Nepalese Society of Texas is trying to turn helplessness into help.The group is raising money to send to Nepal through the country’s Prime Ministerial Disaster Fund."It’s very devastating. All the routes are gone. All communication is interrupted. So it’s a very dire situation. I cannot express how dire the situation is until you go to the local place," said Bijah Bhusal with the Nepalese Society of Texas."We are asking this help to help where we were born. We were born in Nepal, and we are here. So, any kind of help from our native community plus the local community, that’s what we are