Indian floods worsen, 4.5 million people homeless

[Omaha Steve]

Full story: http://reuters.excite.com/article/20060809/2006-08-09T144853Z_01_B699064_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-WEATHER-INDIA-DC.html

Indian floods worsen, 4.5 million people homeless
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Aug 9, 10:48 AM (ET)


AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Swollen rivers swamped thousands of villages and towns across India's south and west on Wednesday, forcing 4.5 million from their homes as rescuers struggled to bring them food and drinking water, officials said.

India's annual monsoon rains -- vital for the country's agriculture-driven economy -- have triggered floods across at least five states since the weekend, killing at least 311 people, submerging villages and causing widespread damage to crops.


People wade through a flooded road in Surat, south of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, August 9, 2006. REUTERS/Amit Dave


Most deaths were reported from the western state of Maharashtra, where 163 people have been killed in four days of incessant rains, 86 of them in the past 48 hours, officials said.

Floods had forced more than 200,000 people out of their homes in nearly 3,500 villages of Maharashtra, a relief official said.

[nam78_two]

1. k&r

[orwell]

2. But...

...how does this relate to Lieberman?

:sarcasm:

[dipsydoodle]

4. Or even...

...Mel Gibson.

:sarcasm:

[oasis]

3. Too bad we can't aid them with .001% of the money we spend for armaments.

:-(

[dipsydoodle]

5. They cannot really win

In years where El Nino causes problems elsewhere the monsoon fails to materialise and their crops fail as a result.

[KamaAina]

6. Who rebuilds first, Surat -- or New Orleans?

We'll see where Maharashtra is a year later... we already know where NOLA is...



edit: picture is from June 21, 2006 :(

[Theres-a]

7. .

:cry:

[cliss]

8. Wow. Thanks for posting, OS.

I'm scheduled to travel to India this fall. I'm headed for Mumbai.

I hope things will be back to normal by then.

[Bhaisahab]

9. mumbai's gonna be dry and cool in fall

drop me a line if you happen to come to New Delhi. It will be a pleasure to meet a DUer face to face.

[Hekate]

11. I wish I could visit -- in the meantime...

...I'll keep a good thought for the 4.5 million of your countrymen trying to keep their heads above water.

Maybe someday I'll be able to see your country, which I imagine as encompassing the cosmos on one subcontinent.

:hi:
Hekate

[Bhaisahab]

12. thanks. hope your "someday" is in the near term...

for the way this country is going, soon there will be no difference between India and America, and it will be called Indiamerica.
(not kidding man)

[cliss]

14. Thanks.

I'm originally scheduled to go to Mumbai, will try to make it.

[McKinneyIsAHero]

Lieberman whining about the "far left" is more important though!

Sorry had to be said that the screwed up priorities of the MSM here.

[McKinneyIsAHero]

10. Lieberman whining about the "far left" is more important though!

Sorry had to be said that the screwed up priorities of the MSM here.

[Massachusetts]

13. MSM

This is certainly a catastrophe. The MSM in OUR country is the Prozac and Cattle Prod this administration needs to control We The People. Sad........

[donkeyotay]

15. I am always amazed by what's not on our television news

All I saw was the anguish of travelers in airports. The delays. The red BREAKING NEWS banners. Oh the humanity. I didn't see anything about the people being bombed out of their homes in Lebanon or the floods in India.

[4_TN_TITANS]

16. as the glaciers / ice melts

situations like this is where it will end up.

[AngryAmish]

17. 2 words that changes a front page story to a 1 paragraph deep in paper

"in India"

You think we had problems with Katrina? That was nothing. But we don't care.