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08-27-2010, 05:09 PM
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Pakistans Flood
So i've been watching this closely, as ive got family in Islamabad they say its normal in the capital although it was flooded some for a few days there but i didn't even realize the scale of this until i just saw this Wired.com report about it
the size of pakistans flood is the entire eastern seaboard of the usa even more as it would go up to into canada (so its more like the entire eastern seaboard of North America)
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...lood-pictures/
I guess i can understand why they're saying this is the biggest natural disaster seen in ages
luckily the death toll isn't extreme as we've seen with say the tsunami but the scale of this is quite insane
there's some pretty epic nasa photos of the flood at that wired link
this is the latest Aster image from Nasa.gov looks like the sea
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/fea...d20100820.html
some other pics from wired
a before and after
People are still being displaced another 1 million people have been forced to leave since this week (17.2+ million total)
Last edited by StylinRed; 08-27-2010 at 05:16 PM.
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08-27-2010, 05:44 PM
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it's an inland ocean O_O
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08-28-2010, 07:38 AM
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what inland ocean? ocean on theland?
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08-28-2010, 12:08 PM
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both china and pakistan is got mad flooded.
some people are speculating that pakistan's flood didn't get much news coverage because of their political/religious affinitiy
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08-28-2010, 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by BaoXu
both china and pakistan is got mad flooded.
some people are speculating that pakistan's flood didn't get much news coverage because of their political/religious affinitiy
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You know i actually dont find that to be true; the news has covered it extensively
but what people have pointed out (especially the United Nations) is that donations are extremely extremely slow and some people decided they would say "that's because they're muslim"
but i dont see much weight behind that argument since donations are still in the hundreds of millions
and you have to consider all the natural disasters of late that people have donated to
plus there's an unexpectedly? low death rate so people dont think its probably such a tragic event
i think that belief may just be an attempt at making a news story where there isnt one
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08-28-2010, 01:14 PM
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^ no... I meant supposed ties with the terrorists/taliban/al qaeda
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08-28-2010, 01:32 PM
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I've donated $600'ish. Would like to donate more but I gotta eat.
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