Messive distructions ever! more than tsunami because of flood in Pakistan

The 2010 Pakistan floods began in July 2010 after record heavy monsoon rains. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan was worst affected. At least 1600 people were killed, thousands were rendered homeless, and more than fourteen million people were affected. Rescue services estimate the death toll may reach 3,000. The United Nations estimates over 20 million people are suffering as a result of the flooding, exceeding the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon says that it is the worst disaster he has ever seen, and asked for an initial $460 million for emergency relief, 20% of which had been received as of August 15, 2010. Extensive damage to infrastructure and crops has significantly harmed the struggling Pakistani economy

The floods were caused by monsoon rains, which were forecast to continue into early August and were described as the worst in this area in the last 80 years.[ The Pakistan Meteorological Department said that 300 mm (12 inches) of rain fell over a 36-hour period and more was expected. So far as many as 500,000 or more people have been displaced from their homes.[ Manuel Bessler, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, stated that 36 districts were involved, and 550,000 people were affected,[18] although later reports increased the number to as high as a million affected.] The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial information-minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said "the infrastructure of this province was already destroyed by terrorism. Whatever was left was finished off by these floods."[] He also called the floods "the worst calamity in our history." Four million Pakistanis were left with food shortages.
Officials have warned that the death-toll could rise as many towns and villages are not accessible and communications have been disrupted. In some areas, the water-level was 5.5 m (18 ft) high and residents were seen on roof-tops waiting for aid to arrive.[10] At least 1,588 people have been injured, 722,600 houses and 4,600 villages have been damaged or destroyed. The Karakoram Highway, which connects Pakistan with China, was closed after a bridge was destroyed. The ongoing devastating floods in Pakistan will have a severe impact on an already vulnerable population, says the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). In addition to all the other damage they have caused, floodwaters have destroyed much of the healthcare-infrastructure in the worst-affected areas, leaving inhabitants especially vulnerable to water-borne disease. In Sindh, the Indus River burst its banks near Sukkur on August 8, submerging the village of Mor Khan Jatoi. There is also absence of law and order, mainly in the Sindh countryside, which is notorious for bandits, where bandits have been taking advantage of the floods by ransacking abandoned homes using boats.[
In early August, the heaviest flooding moved southward along the Indus River from severely-affected northern regions toward western Punjab, where at least 1,400,000 acres (570,000 ha) of cropland was destroyed,[7] and the southern province of Sindh.[ The crops affected were cotton, sugarcane, rice, pulses, tobacco and animal fodder. Floodwaters and rain destroyed 700,000 acres (3,000 km2) of cotton, 200,000 acres (800 km2) acres each of rice and cane, 500,000 tonnes of wheat and 300,000 acres (1,000 km2) of animal fodder. According to the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association, the floods destroyed 2 million bales of cotton, which led to increase in futures of the commodity in international market.
The power infrastructure of Pakistan also took a severe blow from the floods, which damaged 10,000 transmission lines, transformers, feeders and power houses in different flood hit areas. Flood water inundated Jinnah Hydro Power and additional 150 power houses in Gilgit. The damage caused increase in country's power shortfall to 3,135 MW.
Aid agencies have warned that outbreaks of diseases, such gastroenteritis, diarrhea, and skin diseases due to lack of clean drinking water and sanitation can pose a serious new risk to victims of flood. On August 14, the first case of cholera emerged in the town of Mingora, as fear ran through millions of stranded victims of flood, who are already suffering from gastroenteritis and diarrhea.
On the direction of President Asif Ali Zardari, there were no official celebrations of 64th Independence Day on 14 August as the country faces calamity.
Pakistani authorities have predicted that fresh rainfall is expected to trigger further two waves of flooding, inundating more land and swallowing yet more villages. One of this new flood surge is currently sweeping down from mountainous areas in the north and expected to hit highly populated areas in the coming days, while the second wave is being formed in the mountains.
An article in the New Scientist[] attributed the cause of the exceptional rainfall to "freezing" of the jet stream, a phenomenon that also caused an unprecedented heat wave and wildfires in Russia.
Some Pakistani commentators also said that the construction of dams on the Sutlej and Beas rivers by India had exacerbated the situation, claiming that India deliberately released water from the dams to increase flooding.