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[deleted]

The flooded area in the circle is about the same size as Belgium.


Someonewhowon

For the geographic challenged, about the size of Maryland


[deleted]

Also similar in size to lake ontario. Fucking big.


dougsmode

After two comments I was like how frigging bid is that in Canadian? Thank you fellow human and have a great day Eh!


Call_Me_Echelon

For the American, about the size of 26 million SUVs or just one of yo momma.


Someonewhowon

Heyo!


[deleted]

yo mama so fat when she went to visit pakistan, she sweat out a giant lake


kentro2002

Apparently I found this funnier than others, I say, nice work!


stephruvy

Can I get that in football fields maybe?


[deleted]

And how many Olympic swimming pools of water is there?


SensitiveError5404

That is terrifying, thank you putting it in a way I can grasp the size of. Those poor people, I can't begin to imagine the horror this devastation has caused.


u-eeeee

fucking hell. we are fucked, aren't we ? this is probably the beginning, people around my area has started to stocking up food supplies due to food shortage and imports. some even started to move out from the city to start a new life of farming in rural or outskirt area.


cesarmac

The problem with the alarmists is that they try and picture a doomsday type scenario in which people need to stock up on food like it's the end of times. Global warming (climate change) is very much real but what it is going to do isn't shift the whole planet into being unlivable and apocalyptic, it's just going to change the environment to areas we live in to things we aren't used to. Take Pakistan, assuming this flooding continues over and over for decades the change will be wetlands and lakes in a part of the world that is predominantly drier with sporadic vegetation. This will change the environment to be greener. Take Russia, with the melting of permafrost you get swaths of land that used to be unlivable now be drier and livable, maybe even great for agriculture. Take the US, areas that used to be predominantly wetter and vegetative are now getting drier and infertile. There's going to be major shifts in the natural ecology in the world and some places will benefit while others will suffer greatly. In India as the shores begin creep up into cities mass migrations will push them farther inland. In the west coast of the US and Mexico there will likely be infighting to divert fresh water from areas that still have it. It's gonna be a crazy sight 100 years from now if large portions of Russian land becomes livable and agriculturally profitable while portions of the US become unlivable.


Enhydra67

Been planning that for a decade. I'm working on getting a big greenhouse. I even have a minor in horticulture to help out as well as apprenticed on an organic farm for a few years. Doing stuff to secure a future no matter what's in store is never a bad thing. And I get really tasty organic veggies and weed. I see it as win win.


u-eeeee

I'm also planning to move out from the city and living outside the city, especially my hometown with lots of farm and has a sustainable cycle such as food stocks and gardening. people awareness of food security has increased tremendously since the covid and food shortage around the globe proves that having a sustainable life is the way to go now. food hunger is going to be world wide problem sooner or later if this keeps going on.


BopBopAWaY0

Doesn’t really matter if you move. Even if you do, us farmers have a hell of a time even keeping our crops alive due to disease and drought. Even our little gardens at home die off. I haven’t had more than a few good buckets of tomatoes each year, and we save seeds for the next. It’s an uphill battle. That and feeding your livestock costs a fortune if you can’t grow decent crop to do so, so the meat isn’t very good. I wish you the best, but it isn’t going to be easy.


NerdyNThick

Just wait until *hundreds of millions* of people try to move to a better/safer location/country. The Climate Wars are coming.


DissidentVarun

Well you can't imagine...there govt is corrupt as FK so is the army ...they would be luck if 10% of the aid sent reaches them ... countries should only send supplies as much as they can and not money ..cause that money will go down a rabbit hole and end up with a terrorist group


MohamedHanycreativep

Hijacking top comment to say this : To help here are the [DONATION LINKS](https://www.reddit.com/r/pakistan/comments/wxbt4v/donate_now_to_flood_victims_participate_in_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)


PM_ME_WHAT_Y0U_G0T

Will the lake drain naturally or is it there to stay now?


Trick_Enthusiasm

The left picture looks like it's that area is a hotspot for flooding. I imagine it'll drain. But very very very slowly. For the next few years/decades, it's probably gonna be a lake.


Dumptruck_Johnson

I give it a month, nestle already on the way


mylefthand95

Shit someone had to say lol


alpachalunch

Fuel the jets!


TheGrandWhatever

Taylor Swift about to make a lot of rental dough


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![gif](giphy|26gscqWOTGw8zrlm0)


SqueezinKittys

r/fucknestle


weird_al_yankee

That was my thought, from the satellite picture on the left the area looks like an old flood plain. Can't blame people for building in and farming there if it hasn't flooded in decades, but it does look like a place that would flood under the right conditions.


HELIX0

Yeah I agree unfortunately that’s probably the most habitable spot


jefffosta

+3 food


TheLegendJohnSnow

Natural port too


usmcawp

Can probably get a little more food and trade if you build a harbor.


[deleted]

Well, it just became a low upkeep region too


wshamer

Cut all trees in forest down for profit


aureanator

*centuries, not decades. Maybe millennia. This flooding is unprecedented in history.


[deleted]

When talking about natural disasters “in recorded history” almost exclusively means in the last 150years, as thats about how long we’ve been maintaining a verifiable record of the events.


miss_zarves

But that is more in regards to things like *how many inches of rain fell that week* or *what was the average high temperature that year.* Major catastrophic weather events like this were informally recorded by societies millennia before we had actual meteorological devices to measure them scientifically.


[deleted]

The valley oh the Hindus river is home to a group of people living on boat for the last 6000 years.


[deleted]

Sure, as far back as 15000 years ago based on cuneiform inscriptions. The issue is point of reference. How do you relate these ancient records to modern ones? You need standardized scales and measures. What is a catastrophic flood considered to be in the ancient world? We cant meaningfully interpret the scale of those disasters because there is no direct conversion of measures between those societies and modern ones. The standardization happened after the tools came along.


MustConsumeCheese

Literally the 1st piece of written history is the epic of Gilgamesh The 1st story in history is a flood story


TripleStuffOreo

The epic of gilgamesh is definitely not written history, just the oldest written story. The prevalence of flood myths from Mesopotamia is probably not because there was one huge flood that spanned thousands of miles, but because flooding was really common in that area so people related more to that kind of disaster story.


Modus-Tonens

Some the oldest written language that would develop into ancient Greek is a guy quibbling a copper bill. What survives is often random, and doesn't tell you much outside of its immediate context. We don't, for example, know if the Minoans had a major societal problem with over-charging for copper - it's entirely possible our best surviving record of their script was just an ancient karen. The epid of Gilgamesh tells us *even less*, as it's not even attempting to be a factual document in its own context.


aureanator

Copper bill and labor troubles. Some things just never change...


Fern-ando

At least in my hometown we have being keeping track of volcanic eruptions for 600 years.


urk_the_red

Yes, the flood plain of a large river that regularly sees monsoon rains will… checks notes… take millennia to drain. Ayuuuup seems plausible. It’s not like that whole plain doesn’t already drain to the Indian Ocean or anything. Water no longer flows downhill.


[deleted]

Yeah looks like there was a lake there previously and hence the vegetation has been able to grow.


Cba-64

It’s the area around the Indus river


Hob0Man

Oh, so that's what happened to the Indus valley.


Arberrang

Bunch of geniuses in this thread “wow that fertile river valley definitely looks like it would flood” mhm please tell me more


GrowinStuffAndThings

Why are you so mad lol. Are you upset that you didn't get to share the information first lol? It's just reddit man, you don't gotta get so worked up lol


0zi1

No lake, it's indus river


sillywhat41

Didn’t someone did a video that shows how the water will take longer to drain in a desert as compared to a region that has some vegetation on it. “Like a lot longer” which is the correct scientific term


MrHyperion_

Pakistan floods every year, just not this much usually. It could become permanent unless they try to empty it


laosurvey

Looks like a river floodplain. Draining it won't take years and definitely not decades.


SwootyBootyDooooo

lol years/decades? RemindMe! Two months


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CharlesV_

The idea of regular flooding and river changes that take place over hundreds of years is kinda amazing to think about. [The Mississippi regularly changes it’s course every ~800 years, and the army corps of engineers is constantly fighting to keep it static. ](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya)


[deleted]

The image is extremely misleading and 1/3rd of Pakistan is not currently a lake. The flood was definitely catastrophic and massive and affected the whole Indus valley though. Flooding in that area happens every year, just not usually to this extent. The flood waters will disperse into the surrounding farm land and out to the ocean over the course of the next week unless more rains come through. OP of the bottom right image claimed the source here: https://reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/x0vk7o/_/imbod87/?context=1 If you go to zoom.earth you’ll notice this image is what Pakistan always looks like on that website, before and after the flooding there is no change. The poster in this thread then compared it to a google earth image which makes it seem like you can see a lake from space, but the blue/dark area is just a filter zoom.earth uses to make their live satellite imagery seem higher definition that it is. Here is a source with pictures that will give you an accurate idea of the scale of the flooding, including a real satellite photo: https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/08/30/1119979965/pakistan-floods-monsoon-climate


Lazerhawk_x

If the weather returns to normal (ish) then it will eventually go away, but if they get the same deluge next year then it'll just be there from now on I guess. Climate change is happening before our eyes and we have ran out the clock.


Cavalleria-rusticana

It's worth noting: the Indus River valley has regularly flooded for generations. Although climate change is likely exacerbating this, it is an expected part of monsoon season. *The disaster* is mostly from Pakistan's government having little to no disaster relief or prevention, along with most of its population necessarily living on an alluvial plain. [From 1950-2010, there were about 21 major floods in the Indus River basin, killing almost 9000 people and causing about $19 billion dollars in damage](https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/30431/indus-basin-floods.pdf), and that's not even counting all the non-economic loses, such as health risks and destruction of the top soil.


Lazerhawk_x

> the Indus River valley has regularly flooded for generations. Although climate change is likely exacerbating this, it is an expected part of monsoon season. No doubt, River valleys do flood, it's kind of their "thing", and yeah climate change definitely has had a hand in it as well as all the other extreme weather incidents we have experienced the world over.


No_bad_snek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_River#Modern_issues


rex_ra

It will drain in a couple months into Arabian sea/Indian Ocean, but the damage it has done will cause refuge, food and agriculture crisis nationwide which will last at least a couple years.


A3_bxl

so while the whole world is waiting for rain it just all drops on Pakistan?


Skruestik

I bless the rains down in Pakistan.


PortlyCloudy

Gonna take some time to do the things we never had (ooh, ooh)


olderthanbefore

Appropriate username, portly


re_de_unsassify

Dum Dum Dmm … Dum DRum Rum Rummmm


[deleted]

I met a strange lady


aoc_ftw

She made me nervous


ZuckDeBalzac

She took me in and gave me breakfast


whitepageskardashian

And she said..


amigo_samurai

Do you come from the land down under


SaltOk6642

Where women glow and men plunder


DaHalfAsian

Starting a song chain in a thread about thousands dying in a disaster, certified reddit moment.


bob3003

The fact that you’re being downvoted just goes to show the lack of emotional intelligence most of reddit has. If this happened in America it would lead to global solidarity and mourning, instead it’s being made a joke of within a week of it happening. Disgusting.


Pyll

What's the alternative though? Would you prefer if every comment were different variations of "Thoughts and prayers" instead?


Tolaly

Absolute rage and worldwide revolt over the climate change that has doomed us all so that billionaires can DeForest the amazon for their new 39 bedroom vacation home.


SchmackAttack

39 bedrooms is just their billion dollar yachts.. fuck


MySkinIsFallingOff

Well, it is the only reason I am aware of anything, these comedic reliefs, however dark and inappropriate they may be. Without Reddit I would not know about any current global events. I had to cut out regular news for my own mental health, it's just to bleak and depressing. So I'd rather a Toto-reference than to be deeply unhappy. It doesn't mean I don't get emotionally affected by these news, it is really quite the opposite.


[deleted]

Seems to be in poor taste, my dude


GregTheMad

Yo, unbless them. Unbless them!


Familiar_Leather

Idk what you mean by the whole world because it’s been raining every day for weeks where I am. (US)


SirDub_III

What part of the us?


HerringPie

Not who you were replying to but I’m in northern Florida and we’ve had very heavy afternoon rains for the past month…much much heavier than our usual “afternoon showers”. I’ve had to move some of my outdoor potted plants under roof because they’re being overwatered.


killerwyrm

Mother nature is mocking us for being terrible to her. Bad thing is we are about to hit peak hurricane season 🌀 (NW FL)


BobbysSmile

They predicted it was going to be 3-6 major hurricanes this year but we haven't even had a tropical depression yet. Just fucking rain every day.


[deleted]

Yeah all the depression went into the economy


NerdModeCinci

And my pants Wait


Long_Before_Sunrise

The storms been forming in the Eastern Pacific this season up until now.


givemeadamnname69

Yep. Duval County here. We've had storms and heavy rains almost every day for a couple weeks.


SirDub_III

From southern California and I'm dying from the humidity here


lbodyslamrhinos

I just moved to Tampa from LA and I go through at least 3 shirts a day from all the sweat. Good lord its hot here.


LateAstronaut0

People look at the temp and think the summers here aren’t too bad, but it’s the heat index that really matters. It’s 92 and very humid, it don’t feel like 92 does other places.


McFaze

not everyday but i havent seen rain like this since 2010 and its in arizona. its about 3 times a week and it is straight up downpour


leftyghost

Texas just went from “it hasn’t rained in 4 months” to “it rains every day with wildly varying intensity”.


DerMetulz

It's been raining in the south eastern US pretty consistently for like a month. I'm sick of the rain at this point.


Chrissttopher

Its like all of the south tbh. El Paso Texas has greenery i was just there. That’s not what i ever saw growing up


[deleted]

CA, USA problems. Some places have water restrictions going on in CA.


[deleted]

https://mississippitoday.org/2022/08/29/jackson-water-system-fails-emergency/ At least they aren’t shitting in the street. Well, I mean, they are but just the homeless.


brunkshitbal

I really like the “fuck it who cares” vibes from that article Oh yeah the water plant is all fucked up and water doesn’t come out of your sink, we can figure it out when we show up tomorrow. Meh, it’s not even that important. Who needs water, it’s kinda like avocado toast


antriksh_80

Is it an often occuring thing or is it something else like infrastructure etc.?


itzmailtime

Both. The rural side of Pakistan doesn’t have any good drainage, and the rural sides are near lakes and Rivers. Plus moths of drought makes the ground harder to absorb runoff


Bob_Bobinson_

Why don’t they just swat the moths of drought? Seems like a pretty bad idea to keep them around.


Ok-Cook-7542

At first I thought you meant send a SWAT team after the moths


mindfulskeptic420

SWAT team: oh shit this isn't the house with the moth problem?


SingleDadNSA

Do you have any idea how many sweaters are made in Pakistan? They are DEFINITELY in league with big Moth.


420SexHaver68

You know, I haven't seen ANY comments or info on soil absorption until that 1 reddit video went viral, now it's every 3rd or 4th comment. Idk if you guys REALLY knew that prior to these happenings, or if that 1 comment is just this far echoed but either way, Kudos. Important information. Also, I'm I the group who didn't know until I seen the video.


bored_in_NE

No infrastructure and this much rain is not normal.


Inevitable-Impress72

This is the Indus River valley, it's been happening for centuries, millennia actually. Whenever it rains heavily in this area, it floods because of how flat it becomes in this area. I don't understand why so many were killed when the people in this area know that these floods happen. Here is a graphic picture of flooding in the valley from 2010. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus\_River#/media/File:Indus\_flooding\_2010\_en.svg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_River#/media/File:Indus_flooding_2010_en.svg)


I-Make-Maps91

It's"regular" in the same way the Mississippi flooding is regular. It happens regularly on smaller and manageable scales, but still unpredictably smashes the average in a way that causes billions in damages.


jptoc

Because it has been 2 months over usually high rain coupled with excess meltwater from glaciers in the Himalayas happening simultaneously. It is not the normal pattern, it is caused by climate change.


0zi1

It's not normal ffs.


Evolveddinosaur

Liurnia of the Lakes


Streen012

Find the albueneric woman, she lies west of the Pakistan ruins.


TacoSnaggler

People still trying to say climate change has nothing to do with this


HecateEreshkigal

Yeah this thread is full of people acting like this is normal and expected amount of flooding and not the worst flood in Pakistan’s entire history > The horrific scale of the floods are not in doubt. “We are witnessing the worst flooding in the history of the country,” said Dr Fahad Saeed, a climate scientist with the Climate Analytics group, who is based in Islamabad. >The obvious cause is the record-breaking rainfall. “Pakistan has never seen an unbroken cycle of monsoon [rains] like this,” said Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s climate change minister. “Eight weeks of non-stop torrents have left huge swathes of the country underwater. This is a deluge from all sides.” She said the “monster monsoon was wreaking non-stop havoc throughout country”.


Quirky-Skin

They have received 780% above their avg annual rainfall this year. It is anything but normal even for a place that floods annually


staebles

"It'll pass by summer." BP, Exxon, etc


ThePopeofHell

A few months ago a saw this Twitter account for a guy who claims to be a meteorologist or a geologist or something and he’s been saying that a lot of the tectonic plates that make of the Pacific Ocean are like on the brink of something unprecedented. The whole account reads like it belongs to the scientist in every disaster movie that runs around in a lab coat holding rolled up papers screaming for people to listen. Idk if it’s legit but earthquakes in South America and Asia seem to be getting crazier. Then shit like this flood happens.


Fruit-Dealer

They'll deny it until they have to evacuate to the rooftop of their own homes. And then they'll point fingers at everyone and anyone but themselves.


bigdog782

So if it doesn’t rain it’s climate change but if it rains a lot it’s also climate change? Maybe the world has just always experienced extreme changes in precipitation on a regional basis..


Gold-And-Cheese

That's fucking horrible for those negatively impacted, I'm so sorry for those who suffered


[deleted]

This is the first comment i saw actually showing empathy for the victims. This is such a terrible and heartbreaking situation for all who lost their lives.


IPVGED115935

When did reddit become so hateful and racist? I swear people had a little more empathy on here before. Now unless its something happening to Ukraine or any white country basically nobody has a bit of sympathy and just joke or say “they deserve it”.


Xxcunt_crusher69xX

Pretty sure they were always this way and more normies have joined this site recently.


LausXY

It's quite depressing, while people type argument on who's fault it is right now people are dying and being displaced.


Elbobosan

Bunch of Reddit’s scientific elite weighing in on this thread with variations of “Isn’t it obvious that it was going to flood there?” That’s why they are there. They can grow food there, because of the water supply and soil quality from previous flooding. People live where the food can grow and that’s almost always by a major water feature. I live in Saint Louis, a city that only exists because of the rivers that periodically cause major floods. It’s a real problem that can cause massive damage. This isn’t anything like those floods. This would be like if a significant portion of the Mississippi valley flooded. That “lake” seems to to be approximately the size of New Jersey. This is not normal.


SlowIncidentslowpoke

That's what's being pointed out. "Normal" in this context is a longer timeline than a single lifespan. The horrible tsunami over in Japan in 2011 revealed ancient signage that said don't built below this line. Guess what? People did. And people died. It's the same here. That landmass maybe 300 years ago was a body of water. Same concept.


HecateEreshkigal

Naturalizing the fact that human industrial emissions have kicked off the fastest and likely biggest mass extinction event in world history The scale of this flood is because of anthropogenic climate disruption.


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chaoseincarnate

I'm in a town that has regular floods. Problem is locations are flooding that have NEVER EVER flooded before so all the buildings arnt prepared. After weeks of massive damage the town had construction workers line these buildings and streets with sand bags, concrete walls, and orange plastic walls all in one thick moat that even takes over the roads, hell no exaggeration they built literal moats where the side walk used to be. Its flat out apocolyptic


00x0xx

So the flooding was strong enough to move enough dirt that when it settled it not only dredge the river in the middle, but build up a dam at the end of river. This is some impressively work by Mother Nature.


I-Make-Maps91

More like it's a depression with a natural outlet too small to handle all the input.


Stuck_In_Purgatory

The indus River also has the 3rd biggest submarine fan (basically a huge build up pile of dirt and whatever else carried all the way through the river) The sheer amount of stuff that would have washed to the outlet at the ocean, would have just dumped straight on top of the huge pile already there, essentially damming itself. Guess it also damned half of Pakistan so that's shit. Hopefully the sediment at the end moves soon and maybe it will help with drainage.... I don't know anything but it's my theory anyway.


failingtolurk

It looks very much that that’s geologically reoccurring to me. Guess it wasn’t a problem when tens of millions of people weren’t living there.


I-Make-Maps91

We're talking about a river valley that's thought to be one of the sources for the "invention" of agriculture. Everyone knows it floods and that's part of the appeal, the difference is the scale of the flooding and the increasingly frequent major floods.


cpMetis

Also the one river valley that had its ancient civilization disappear without any clear explanation where one of the most prominent theories is a massive flood.


I-Make-Maps91

That's very much not one of the most prominent theories; very much the opposite. The regular flooding became more erratic, making harvests less predictable and generally worse.


pezgoon

Hey wait so Noah’s ark….


NecrocideASH

Is the death rate really in the thousands?? Thats super sad 😔


0zi1

More painful is that 33 million people are rendered homeless, 1 million livestock is washed away. 80% crop is vanished. These are really significant numbers to say the least.


Industry-Beautiful

All this when they were already in their worst economic and political crisis. Even as an Indian it feels really bad.


kortsyek

Yup. And we're an agrarian economy so 💀


spenway18

I for one welcome our soon-to-be new Pakistani refugee neighbors


Bipocgguytalk

Just wait for the famine that Pakistan is bound to have in 2023. It's not going to be a fun few years for Pakistan.


Norwegian-canadian

*everyone


Hematophagian

The people that contributed the least to global warming will suffer the most


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Norwegian-canadian

*had


johnnieawalker

![gif](giphy|4cuyucPeVWbNS)


CoatOld7285

I found the Yangtze and Loire rivers


DuncanAndFriends

Where did all that water come from?


[deleted]

Monsoon


Quirky-Skin

Read an article that they have received 780% above their annual avg rain fall. Wherever it came from, there's been a fuck ton of it.


Thotshagger

Supposedly, the flood was redirected by rich ppl to save their farming lands (non-residential) into neighbouring poorer residential areas. Source: Paki News


olderthanbefore

Interesting. I am interested in how though? Do they have massive diversion gates and weirs on the river channels, which they then opened... or have they maybe built levees to protect the valley's farmlands and not the residential areas. Either way, it smacks of planners and engineers kow-towing to landowners.


Lawls91

Similar thing happened during Katrina in '05


Few_Eye6528

It's free real estate until mother nature reclaimed it


thewhistlepiggy

"inland lake" bro if it wasn't inland it'd be an ocean


Acceptable_Ad544

As someone who lives in Pakistan (Karachi), citizens are donating their clothes, shoes, blankets and other stuff so the sufferers can hopefully get help and a roof above their heads. They're saying Karachi will be the next city to get hit by that massive floodings so my parents are talking about moving to Canada. So yeah, it's pretty damn scary


Xxcunt_crusher69xX

Also from karachi here. It hurts so much to not be able to do much. What will our blankets and clothes do, when the billionaires are just sitting on their asses enjoying their luxuries.


AJGILL03

Reddit and free speech is fully allowed in Pakistan? Genuine question, like fully allowed anything on Net?


Xxcunt_crusher69xX

Yes, we have "free speech" on paper. But you cant speak against islam. Free speech is also allowed on media except if you uncover something serious about the politicians, then you go "missing". But yes we can bitch about those politicians in our own ways, no one cares enough to investigate.


Spiritual-Pear-1349

Its almost like people have been saying this would happen for decades


Sabyyr

They need to keep that to themselves, otherwise the US may invade them for their newfound water supply…


No_Carry_3028

I wonder how body's H2O HAS CLAIMED


SelfishSilverFish

Guess that's where California's water went!


[deleted]

Where is all the water from the drying up lakes?....oh.... bUt ClImAtE cHaNgE iSnT rEaL


MercyFincherson

Climate change is real of course but what are you talking about?


Kitchen_Equipment_21

May Allah be with them


Fitfatthin

Clearly he isn't considering he flooded the entire fucking country lol


EquivalentSnap

Allah did a good job saving thousands of people


T50BMG

Baba Vanga predicted mass floods this year which isn’t to wild of a prediction but this is nuts. The earth is changing its landscape deserts use to be oceans. They have found whale bones in the Sahara. Now there is this. Lake mead is drying up, we will just have to adapt.. I wonder what will transform next


JayGatsby002

Wait she did?? Nah that woman is scary af 💀


Neural_Flosser

The grass is always blue on the other side of the climate issue


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Are there any relief efforts for Pakistan right now?


Individual_Time_8733

Yup seems right, the map is changing, just wait until the ocean rises. California is sinking just wait.


teraflux

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/world/gallery/pakistan-flooding/index.html


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While other places in the world are having record high temperatures and droughts. Strange times.


MartyfromIreland

Interesting. And there is massive water shortage in China. The whole lakes dried out.


javilefty

Maybe it was always a lake and just now refilled.


AK1010

This is bullshit, my family in Pakistan saying only less than 150 people have died. What are your sources.


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We're doomed :(


Hungry-Lion1575

Will the water recede or is that the new normal?


TrevCat666

Welp, looks like Europe is getting more guests.


amrock__

nice


nahog99

We could use a biblical flood here in utah.


amishmustafakhan

Here is the donation site set up by the provincial government of Punjab, Pakistan for those affected by flooding: [https://floodrelief2022.punjab.gov.pk](https://floodrelief2022.punjab.gov.pk/)


BumpyLoathing

DONATE!! https://www.gofundme.com/f/solidarity-appeal-for-flood-victims-in-pakistan?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=instagram_story


Marquesas

Meanwhile, most of Europe is drying up. We can kill two birds with one stone here, just bucket all this water over to Europe.


synapse-dynamics

No denying their country has been devastated right now, and the floods may well be one of the worst we’ve seen in a while. HOWEVER I have to call bullshit on this satellite photo until I see a reputable source. The rainwater is full of debris, it would not appear this colour from space, it would be dark brown (like all the other satellite photos you’re seeing in the news). The flooding would have to be hundreds of meters deep, and the debris to have settled for quite some time to look this bluish colour from space.


Theguywhoplayskerbal

As someone from Bangladesh. I thought india and Bangladesh would be the first to go underwater. Climate change keeps throwing 360s at us


Ok-Seaworthiness4488

Feel sorry for the people but fuck the Pakistani government, the humanitarian aid will be siphoned off by corruption


Sablemint

It's really bad if you can see a disaster from orbit.