Nepal Tragedy: Lansdale Woman Finally Discovers Her Family Is Safe

The family of Ishari Shrestha, a native of Nepal, had to wait through two hours of silence after the earthquake to know for sure that her family was alive, according to a report by The Intelligencer.

For two hours, Shrestha called to hear the voices she needed to hear. She called. No answer. She called again. No answer. She called. She worried. She waited.

Shrestha would later learn the specifics of the 7.8 magnitude quake, whose epicenter, near Lamjung in central Nepal, was about 100 miles from Kathmandu near where her family lives. She turned on the TV and blanched at the devastation and the death toll, which approaches 4,000. But at that moment, unanswered questions ruled the night.

Finally, two hours after that unsettling phone call from her sister half a country away — and on what probably seemed to her like the millionth attempt to reach her 84-year-old father and 72-year-old mother — she heard voices. They were safe.

Another Lansdale local, lawyer Bandita Sharma-Dahal, also recently discovered that her family survived the earthquake.

But seemingly, for every story of survival and reunion, there is tragedy. Recent reports by CNN have the death toll as over 4,600.

Read more about Bucks County and the 2015 Nepal Earthquake:

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