27 Weather

 In Pakistan, where almost half a million people live in relief camps, the rain killed more than 1,000 people. Massive flooding swept through Mississippi last week, leaving about 150,000 residents of the capital, Jackson, without reliable access to safe drinking water. Rain recently lashed Seoul subway stations, turning streets into rivers in one of the worst storms in more than a century. In recent weeks, the world has been hit by a series of deadly floods that have destroyed homes, flooded farmland, engulfed mining operations and caused economic damage. In Pakistan alone, officials estimated the damage at more than $10 billion, a level that forced the country to seek a $1.1 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to avert a looming crisis. The country is now facing a food crisis as agricultural land is under water. It rained in India, in the south of the United States and Great Britain. Ironically, the floods occur at a time when planet Earth is also suffering from drought