Family
members, displaced by floods, use a tarp to escape a monsoon downpour
while taking shelter at a make-shift camp for flood victims in the Badin
district in Pakistan's Sindh province Sept. 14. Floods this year have
destroyed or damaged 1.2 million houses and flooded 4.5 million acres
since late last month, according to officials and Western aid groups.
More than 300,000 people have been made homeless and about 200 have been
killed.
Rescuers
and volunteers search for the body of the fourth fatality in Baguio,
northern Philippines on Aug. 29 after an avalanche of rubbish at the
city dump at the height of Typhoon Nanmadol. Super-typhoon Nanmadol left
at least 16 people dead after hitting the Philippines, and the toll is
expected to rise as hopes of finding those missing fade, the civil
defense chief said.
Vehicles
are piled on top of one another on muddy ground after Typhoon Talas
caused flash flooding in the town of Nachikatsuura, Wakayama prefecture,
in western Japan on Sept. 5. Typhoon Talas cut across western Japan
late on September 3, leaving at least 31 people dead and 50 missing
after heavy rains and fierce winds.
A food vendor gives change to a customer along a flooded street in the
town of Sena, Ayutthaya province Sept 13. Weeks of heavy monsoon rains
and a tropical storm in Thailand have caused widespread floods and
mudslides, killing at least 84 people since late July.
Pakistani
villagers evacuate household items in a flooded area of Umerkot on
Sept. 16. The United Nations said that it was stepping up aid to
Pakistan, where monsoon floods have killed 270 people, affected over 5.5
million others and destroyed 1.1 million homes.
Rescue
workers transport evacuees in a boat through floodwaters in Nagoya,
Aichi prefecture, in central Japan on Sept. 20. Hundreds of thousands of
people in Japan were warned to leave their homes as an approaching
typhoon brought heavy rain and fears of landslides and flash flooding.
Displaced
Pakistanis wash their belongings in a flooded field in Mirpur Khas in
Pakistan's Sindh province, after fleeing their flood-hit homes Sept. 23.
In Pakistan's Sindh province alone, the floods have killed over 220
people, damaged or destroyed some 665,000 homes and displaced more than
1.8 million people, according to the United Nations. Neighboring
Baluchistan province has also been affected.
Residents
are evacuated from a flood zone Sept. 19 in Guang'an, China's Sichuan
province. Heavy rains that have unleashed flooding across southwest
China and left at least 14 people dead will continue to pound the region
in the coming days, the country's meteorological agency said.
Policemen
and residents run as waves from a tidal bore surge past a barrier on
the banks of Qiantang River in Haining, Zhejiang province Aug. 31. As
Typhoon Nanmadol approaches eastern China, the tides and waves in
Qiantang River recorded its highest level in 10 years, local media
reported.
Indian
villagers with their cattle cross flood waters on a boat at
Kasimpurchak near Danapur Diara in Patna, India, Sept. 27. Monsoon rains
destroyed mud huts and flooded wide swaths of northern and eastern
India in recent days, leaving hundreds of thousands marooned by raging
waters, officials said.
Flood
water covers the roadway Sept. 9 in Bloomsburg, Pa., after remnants
from tropical Storm Lee continued to produce heavy rain overnight.
Unidentified
teens walk through the high water and waves at the Mandeville, La.
lakefront of Lake Pontchartrain from Tropical Storm Lee, on Sept. 4. The
vast, soggy storm system spent hours during the weekend hovering in the
northernmost Gulf of Mexico. Its slow crawl to the north gave more time
for its drenching rain bands to pelt a wide swath of vulnerable
coastline, raising the flood threat.
Cecil
Flemming tries to maneuver his wheelchair through the waters on the
Mandeville, La. lakefront of Lake Pontchartrain after waters crashed
over the seawall from Tropical Storm Lee Sept. 4. The vast, soggy storm
system spent hours during the weekend hovering in the northernmost Gulf
of Mexico. Its slow crawl to the north gave more time for its drenching
rain bands to pelt a wide swath of vulnerable coastline, raising the
flood threat.
Pakistani
men sit on the rubble of a house, surrounded by floods water in Badin
district near Hyderabad, Pakistan Sept. 18. The floods caused by heavy
rains have killed more than 200 people, made about 200,000 people
homeless and left 4.2 million acres of agriculture land inundated with
water, authorities said.
A
displaced Pakistani boy stands on a narrow path surrounded by flood
water in Badin District, in Pakistan's Sindh province Sept. 24. In
Pakistan's Sindh province alone, the floods have killed over 220 people,
damaged or destroyed some 665,000 homes and displaced more than 1.8
million people, according to the United Nations. Neighboring Baluchistan
province has also been affected.
A
girl, displaced by floods, carries pots as she walks on the trunk of a
tree floating in the water near her home in the Badin district of
Pakistan's Sindh province Sept. 23. The latest floods, triggered by
monsoon rains, have killed more than 230 people, destroyed or damaged
1.2 million houses and flooded 4.5 million acres since late last month,
officials and Western aid groups say. More than 300,000 people have been
moved to shelters. Some 800,000 families hit by last year's floods are
still homeless. Aid groups have warned of a growing risk of fatal
diseases.
Residents
living beside a swollen river walk through floods in Navotas, north of
Manila, Philippines Sept. 27 as Typhoon Nesat hits the country. Massive
flooding hit the Philippine capital as typhoon winds and rains isolated
the historic old city where residents waded in waist-deep waters,
dodging tree branches and debris.
Fishermen
stand at the scene of a cargo ship washed ashore at the sea port in
Navotas city, north of Manila Sept. 27 after Typhoon Nesat, locally
known as Pedring, hit the capital, Manila. Typhoon Nesat pounded the
Philippines' main island lashing crop-growing provinces and bringing the
capital to a near standstill as it disrupted power supplies and closed
financial markets, government offices, transport and schools. At least
one person, a 22 month-old boy, died in the storm, and four people were
reported missing.
