Pakistan floods: a disaster of epic proportions
Posted on Monday, August 16th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
A boy holds his sibling as flood victims wait on roadside for food handout from motorists in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district in Punjab province August 11, 2010. Photo: Reuters/Adrees Latif, courtesy www.alertnet.org
I arrived in Pakistan the beginning of week two of this massive emergency. There is an adjustment to be made as you step off the plane and take in the enormity of the damage and human suffering. Here the adjustment is colored with a sense of incomprehension as to why—so many days after the floods began—there is not a sense of greater urgency outside of Pakistan.
