Saturday 11 September 2010

Pakistan flood continues to have devastating effects on lives.

After fasting from Ramadan finished celebrations were supposed to be carried out, however the effect of the floods still carries misery for a lot of people in Pakistan. It started nearly 6 weeks ago and is the worst floods Pakistan have ever seen! It killed more than 1750 people and caused 43 billion US dollars worth of damage. Although the floods have come to a near finish and water levels are lowering, citizens in Pakistan are still living in camps because their houses have been destroyed and livelihood has been lost. Leaving friends and family lost across the nation. Not only this, but the prolonged affects are that millions of children could carry diseases, causing more financial strain on the nation and possibly increasing the death toll for this awful natural disaster. This shows how devastating floods can be and how they can destroy lives, but it also shows how lucky people in Boscastle were in 2004, after no life was lost in their devastating floods.