7 of 10 SINKING & TILTING; Thailand: Up to a quarter of Thailand's provinces have been inundated! Pakistan: Floods wreak devastation, death toll reaches 150!

A general view of a flooded town in Sukhothai province is seen, north of Bangkok September 12, 2012

Pakistan SINKING:

/ Floods wreak devastation across country, death toll reaches 150. Floods triggered by monsoon rainfall have wreaked vast devastation across the country. The government officials have confirmed 89 deaths caused by floods while the unofficial statistics reported over 150 casualties across the country with the death of twenty more on Tuesday. Meanwhile, hundreds of flood affectees protested over the delay in Hill torrent from Koh-e-Suleman range hit DG Khan for the first time in history, and has devastated the whole city. The length of the torrent is reported to be roughly around 45 miles while it is around 15 miles wide. It has inundated a vast area and displaced around 0.7 million people in the area,” said Punjab chief minister’s senior adviser Senator Sardar Zulfiqar Khan Khosa. Several mud huts in the vicinity of D G Khan were swept away by the hill torrents as water entered in the eastern part of the city. Thousands of people have displaced in flooding and moving towards safer places. The government has declared D G Khan calamity hit region. As many as 25,000 people have been shifted to relief camps on an emergency basis in Dera Ghazi Khan, where the flooding is reported to be the worst in 105 years. /

Thailand SINKING:

/ Thailand's flood defences under strain again. Up to a quarter of Thailand's provinces, including the tourist resort of Ayutthaya, have been inundated by floodwaters amid concerns the government failed to act fast enough to strengthen flood defences after last year's devastating floods. Thousands have fled their homes in Northern Thailand after heavy rain caused a major river to overflow at the start of the month, sending up to a meter of water into some towns. So far, four people have died. Scenes of residents wading through waist-high water and stacking large sandbags around shops and homes in Sukhothai, about 430 km (265 miles) north of the capital Bangkok, are a stark reminder of last year's floods that killed more than 800 people. /

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Flooding getting worse in years?!

2012 Records by Sunda plate SINKING & Indo-Australian plate TILTING

Myanmar SINKING:

Floods in 2012 took place without any tropical depression like in Manila, Philippines!

Philippines SINKING:

Flooding in 2012 took place without any tropical depression! This is floods worse than Ondoy 2009! Sea level rise not blame, this is sinking land!

/ Geologist - “Just finished reading 35 comments...this abnormal rainfall event may be blamed on climate change induced by global warming, but sea level rise from global warming is not to blame. Far too few people know that a major cause of Metro Manila’s worsening floods is that the land there is sinking several inches a year -- more than ten times faster than sea level rise. / Source

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A great flood without a typhoon? Strange! "What was totally strange was that, last Monday, PAGASA didn’t report any storm or typhoon nor did any low pressure area enter the Philippine area of responsibility. I checked the satellite view on the Internet and the whole Philippine archipelago was full of dark clouds. But not a single one of us was prepared to hear the news reports that Metro Manila was 90% inundated by floods. This was worse than typhoon “Ondoy” yet there was no typhoon? Strange things are happening in our country today. " Source

'Unprecedented' heavy rain to continue until Thursday. It's a flood without a name. Unlike 2009's Ondoy, the deluge of August 7 was not accompanied by a storm, hence the absence of a common handle for a flood that easily recalled its infamous predecessor. Source

"This is already worse than Ondoy," declared Jose Fabian Cadiz, the vice mayor of Marikina, which sits in a valley that was hammered by the infamous "one-hundred-year rain" in 2009. "In half a day, Ondoy was over, the water began to subside. Now, we have already been submerged for three days, and the water is still high." Source

“The victims will have to rebuild their lives from the tragedy and devastation. This flood is worse than storm ‘Ondoy’ (that hit Metro Manila and is environs less than three years ago). I hope serious government and private sector efforts to build back better the affected communities would start immediately. We must learn the lessons of Ondoy’’ which this recent widespread flooding brings to fore once again,’’ she said. Source

"Some people observed that the amount of rainfall dumped by the weather disturbance, which doesn’t even have a name like typhoons, has been heavier than Ondoy’s, although the floodwaters in 2009 rose with unusual and deadly speed. A resident in the lakeshore area of Muntinlupa said her home was flooded up to the second floor for the first time – which didn’t happen during Ondoy. Their community was evacuated Monday night. Even without his pronouncement, people are already resigned to the idea that flooding in Metro Manila is going to get worse in the coming years. " Source

"There were certainly so many questions begging to be answered. As with “Ondoy,” the flooding through Metro Manila and much of Southern Tagalog, Central and Northern Luzon was not caused by a typhoon (Ondoy was dubbed a tropical storm). TV networks, at a loss for an easy handle with which to describe their extensive coverage, resorted to a descriptive term like “Hagupit ng Habagat” (roughly, “the westerly wind’s lash,” how poetic no?) or “Bagsik ng Habagat” (the west wind’s cruelty). The weather presenter at CNN explained the flooding with a mix of meteorology and geography. He tracked the path of Tropical Storm “Haikui,” which was said to have drawn the rains over Luzon much like a magnet would, and explained the particular vulnerabilities of low-lying Manila and surrounding areas by pointing out the surrounding bodies of water (Manila Bay, Laguna Lake, Pasig and other rivers and tributaries).
But we have experienced typhoons and other sorts of weather disturbances before, without seeing flooding of such an extent and duration.
And we all know our geography, although it seems that, in retrospect, we may have known what our geography is like but chose to ignore it, building in vulnerable flood plains, blocking natural waterways, denuding our forests and watersheds and blocking natural flood passageways with structures and mounds of garbage. " Source

Australia TILTING & BACKWASHING:

Fiji:

Floods in 2012 take place without tropical depression, in contrast to 2009 Tropical Depression 04F!

India TILTING & BACKWASHING & Bangladesh SINKING:

Assam and Bangladesh -

Uttarkhand -

Uttarakhand has seen its worst flood in years, 76 dead!

Nepal:

Nepal floods 20 dead, 44 missing. Locals says that it worst flooding in living history!

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Thailand:

Thailand's flood defences under strain again

(Reuters) - Up to a quarter of Thailand's provinces, including the tourist resort of Ayutthaya, have been inundated by floodwaters amid concerns the government failed to act fast enough to strengthen flood defences after last year's devastating floods.

Thousands have fled their homes in Northern Thailand after heavy rain caused a major river to overflow at the start of the month, sending up to a meter of water into some towns. So far, four people have died.

Scenes of residents wading through waist-high water and stacking large sandbags around shops and homes in Sukhothai, about 430 km (265 miles) north of the capital Bangkok, are a stark reminder of last year's floods that killed more than 800 people.

Thailand registered just 0.1 percent annual growth in 2011, largely as a result of the floods which swept down into Bangkok.

Although the latest flooding is not as bad as a year ago, another disaster could deal a blow to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's Puea Thai government which came under fire for mismanaging the 2011 crisis.

Industrial estates have scrambled to build flood walls and dredge nearby canals in time for this year's rainy season, but other parts of the country remain vulnerable to sudden inundation.

"Barriers designed to prevent the Yom river from overflowing were in need of repair but this wasn't done after last year's floods," Plodprasop Suraswadi, Thailand's Water and Flood Management Commission, told local radio on Wednesday referring to a main river in the north.

Flood defences at seven key industrial zones were badly hit in 2011, crippling Thailand's electronics and auto sectors and crushing foreign investor confidence.

"Japanese companies are satisfied with the earth flood barriers we built this year and we're ready if water reaches us," said Somnuk Sansomboonsuk, director and project manager of Hi-Tech Industrial Estate, 60 km (40 miles) from Bangkok. ($1 = 31.0900 Thai baht)

(Writing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/12/us-thailand-floods-idUSBR...

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Pakistan:

Floods wreak devastation across country, death toll reaches 150

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/QUETTA - Floods triggered by monsoon rainfall have wreaked vast devastation across the country.
The government officials have confirmed 89 deaths caused by floods while the unofficial statistics reported over 150 casualties across the country with the death of twenty more on Tuesday.
In Balochistan, several villages have been inundated due to heavy rainfall, forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate due to a breach developed in Pat Feeder Canal in Naseerabad.
The floodwater submerged railway tracks and highways in Nasirabad and Jaffarabad. Meanwhile, hundreds of houses were washed away and thousands of families were rendered homeless in the province while no rehabilitation work has been initiated by the provincial government as yet. Many areas have been completely cut off as bridges have been washed away and roads are under water.
Several people are reported to have been left stranded in the flooded areas of Rabi and its adjoining areas including over 500 villages, disconnecting the traffic plying on Sindh-Balochistan National Highway.
Relief teams are busy with rescue operation in the deluged areas of Naseerabad in concert with the administration
Army Jawans were helping the marooned people in Jafferabad.
The rain has come to a halt after being inundating several areas in Sibi while rescue work has also been started in this area.
The rain that lashed several areas of Jacobabad for seven days finally stopped on Tuesday. At least, three persons were injured due to different incidents of roof collapse. Three-four feet deep water is standing in different areas due to which residents are moving towards safer places. The city is also facing blackout for two days as water entered in Jacobabad grid station.
Over six villages have been inundated due to a 50-feet wide breach in Shahi Canal.
After the breaches in DG Khan Canal, that is supposed to protect the town from hill torrents, floodwater entered Behari Colony, Railway Colony, Sadeeqabad, Abdulla Town, Indus Colony, Civil Hospital, district government offices, an under-construction medical college, surroundings of Gaddai, the Government Postgraduate College and residential colonies of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Residents of Sadeeqabad, Shamasabad and Abdulla Town took refuge at the platform of the Dera railway station.
Meanwhile, hundreds of flood affectees protested over the delay in Hill torrent from Koh-e-Suleman range hit DG Khan for the first time in history, and has devastated the whole city. The length of the torrent is reported to be roughly around 45 miles while it is around 15 miles wide. It has inundated a vast area and displaced around 0.7 million people in the area,” said Punjab chief minister’s senior adviser Senator Sardar Zulfiqar Khan Khosa.
Several mud huts in the vicinity of D G Khan were swept away by the hill torrents as water entered in the eastern part of the city.
Thousands of people have displaced in flooding and moving towards safer places. The government has declared D G Khan calamity hit region.
As many as 25,000 people have been shifted to relief camps on an emergency basis in Dera Ghazi Khan, where the flooding is reported to be the worst in 105 years.
Troops were also called in Rajanpur, Rojhan and Jampur areas of the district on the civilian administration’s plea.
District Coordination Officer (DCO) Dera Ghazi Khan Iftikhar Ali Sahu said that the victims would be compensated and aid would be dispatched without any delay.
Six villages of Rajanpur district have been completely washed out and the government buildings were inundated with water.
The floodwater has entered in scores of villages on the bank of river Indus in Layyah. The crops standing at thousands of acres have submerged under the floodwater.
Rahimyar Khan, Pak Pattan and adjoining areas in sothern Punjab have received heavy rainfall but the relief activities are equal to none in the region.
Pakistan Railways’ service has been severely affected by rains causing flooding and submerging tracks at various points.
According to PR sources, Sargodha bound Super Express has been closed for one week while Tezgam could also not leave for Rawalpindi from Lahore.
As rainwater has submerged the railway tracks at Sibbi and DG Khan section, all sorts of train services have been closed while delay of other trains have irked the passengers, sources told.
General Manager PR Junaid Qureshi told a private TV channel that Khyber mail, Allam Iqbal Express and Karachi Express were delayed by 14 hours due to floodwater.