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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Flood spares Thatta as waters recede
2010-08-31
SUJAWAL: A torrent of water threatening to deluge Thatta has begun to recede, local officials said on Monday, as emergency workers plugged a breach in defences against the swollen Indus River.

Pakistan Army personnel and workers were on a “war footing” over the weekend battling to save Thatta, after most of the 300,000 population fled the advancing waters.
'War footing'? Would the Pak Army know what that is?
“The breach near Thatta has been half-plugged and fortunately the flood has also changed its course and is moving away from the city and populated areas,” senior city official Hadi Bakhsh Kalhoro said.

“The water is flowing into the sea and its level is receding, and many people are returning to their homes,” he said, adding levees, hastily built from clay and stone, were holding back the floodwaters.

The low-lying town of Sujawal, near Thatta, had been flooded on Sunday and almost the entire population of about 100,000 had evacuated, with power supplies cut and some residents waiting on the roofs of their homes for rescue boats.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  almost the entire population of about 100,000 had evacuated, with power supplies cut and some residents waiting on the roofs of their homes for rescue boats.

Replace Thatta with New Orleans and you got "deja vu all over again" only with the Pak Army in charge.
Posted by: Goodluck   2010-08-31 04:56  

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