Pakistan flooding: Misery, disease, little aid to victims

[nadinbrzezinski]

PINGRIO, Pakistan — Pakistani soldiers in inflatable rescue boats peered across kilometers of flooded farmland and spotted a man wading through waist-deep water desperate to move his goat to high ground.

For the past two weeks, Kaywall has spent 12 hours a day moving his family's livestock from his inundated village to the small town of Pingrio in Sindh province in the south.

The goats are the only thing he has managed to save from raging waters which swept away his house and belongings.
Like many other flood victims, he awaits help from Pakistan's cash-strapped government.

"My house was completely destroyed," said the construction worker, whose family is stranded. "The government has not done anything for us. They are not around."

The scene, being played out in many parts of Sindh, was a troubling reminder of floods that ravaged much of Pakistan in late July and August last year.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44522452/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/#.TnEKN6N5mSM

Comment http://nadinbrzezinski.posterous.com/climactic-change

[Denninmi]

1. Probably the same could be said about large swathes of Vermont.

Lots of devastation, little aid.

[dembotoz]

2. aw you beat me to it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Larger picture...related

[pintobean]

4. This is getting old. Here:

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Climactic change
One if the things predicted is stranger and more violent weather. We have seen this in spades. Here is one more example... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44522452/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/#.TnEKN6N5mSM

No, a single event is not proof. The aggregate is very strong though. Tornadoes, droughts, floods, rising ocean levels. It's time to get our collective heads out...climate change is very real and a threat to all of us.
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http://nadinbrzezinski.posterous.com/climactic-change

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. That's the way you will get my commentary

Any longer...old or not...that's it.

Yes muzzle that's the way it is...there it is under my control.

Have a good day.