Floods have flooded the scene around the world. Places that were apparently safe for as long as memory serves are suddenly in the path of torrents of water that have the strength of Hercules and the temper of Goliath. Take the example of July of this year and the destructive and deadly flooding that took place in the Hill Country region of the US state of Texas.

During the flooding, water levels in the local Guadalupe River rose rapidly. As a result, at least 135 people were killed, while at least 117 died in a nearby County.

The footprints of floods whether in the far off US or closer to home are unusually strong and destructive year after year with many lives being lost and whole areas uprooted and destroyed. To those of us who have never encountered such a phenomenon this is really awesome and overpowering.

Generally, these unusually strong floods born out of cloud bursts and other such phenomena are attributed to climate change but then there are floods by consent as is the case in the Indo-Pak subcontinent.

In Pakistan........

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