They don't even look "evil."
Residents waded through the streets yesterday in Peshawar, Pakistan, after the rain washed away roads and submerged houses. (Fayaz Aziz/Reuters)
How come so many of those guys are older than dirt yet look so good?
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Floods in the Pakistan’s Peshawar area
Disturbing Video of Pakistan and Monsoon Floods
Yeah, seeing one of the old guys washed away was disturbing.
"At least 60 dead as monsoon rains overwhelm Pakistan" by Associated Press | July 30, 2010
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Rivers burst their banks during deadly monsoon rains lashing Pakistan, washing away streets, battering a dam, and submerging thousands of homes, officials said yesterday.
The hardest-hit region was the northwest, where at least 60 people died and hundreds of thousands were stranded in the region’s worst flooding in decades.
Gee, and they already have enough refugees as it is.
People were forced to trudge through knee-deep water in some streets in the Swat Valley.
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A newly constructed part of a dam in the Charsadda district collapsed, while the United Nations said it had reports that 5,000 homes were underwater in that area. At least 10 of the 60 people reported dead in the previous 24 hours died near Peshawar when their homes crumbled.
Dozens of people were reported missing, including at least nine Chinese construction workers in the Kohistan area. Some 200 other Chinese workers were trapped amid the downpour, said Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister for Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa, the northwest province.
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He said it was the worst flooding in the region since 1929 and estimated 400,000 people were stranded in various villages.
“A rescue operation using helicopters cannot be conducted due to the bad weather, while there are only 48 rescue boats available for rescue,’’ he said, noting weather forecasts predicted more rain.
The torrential rain may also have been a factor in a plane crash in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, that killed all 152 passengers on board Wednesday.From a World lead to a sentence, huh? Stink.
Also see: Pakistan Is Not Pennsylvania
Enough rainfall to avoid drought
No, not at all.
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Update:
"Floods kill more than 320 in three days
PESHAWAR: Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains have killed more than 320 people in Pakistan in three days and affected at least 300,000, officials said Friday.
Hundreds of homes and thousands of hectares (acres) of cultivated land were destroyed in the northwest and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, with the main highway to China reportedly cut off and communities left isolated.
Why does my MSM obscure and omit so many things?
Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where impoverished families live in remote mountain villages, was the worst affected....
The worst-hit area was Malakand, where 102 people died and 16,000 were marooned because bridges have collapsed and road links been cut, said provincial relief commissioner Shakil Qadir.
Qadir said that around 2,800 Pakistani holidaymakers had been stranded in the Swat valley, where the military maintains a heavy presence after a massive operation against Taliban insurgents last year....
:-(
The Karakoram Highway, which links Pakistan to China, was closed as rains washed away a bridge in Shangla district, also cutting off Gilgit-Baltistan from other parts of the country, media reports said.
In Pakistani Kashmir, another 22 people were killed and more than 30 injured Thursday as dozens of houses collapsed due to heavy rains, said the regional prime minister Sardar Atique Ahmed....
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That dropped off the MSM radar as quickly as the plane crash.
