All of the their properties were washed off. All we tried to do was to save as many people's lives as possible. We just picked them up from the water and put them on the part of the embankment that was still in place. This was a thriving village. That was a busy market.
Embankments are a bad idea.
Otherwise, the amount of money they have spent to build and repair all the embankments would have been sufficient for making permanent concrete embankment all along the river. You'll become rich. Parvati Devi had a happy farming family. But her land, and then her life, got drowned. Today her sons travel 1400 km, to the western state of Punjab, working someone else's land.