Flood around the World

Family members, displaced by floods, use a tarp to escape a monsoon downpour while taking shelter at a make-shift camp for flood victims in the Badin district in Pakistan's Sindh province Sept. 14. Floods this year have destroyed or damaged 1.2 million houses and flooded 4.5 million acres since late last month, according to officials and Western aid groups. More than 300,000 people have been made homeless and about 200 have been killed.

Rescuers and volunteers search for the body of the fourth fatality in Baguio, northern Philippines on Aug. 29 after an avalanche of rubbish at the city dump at the height of Typhoon Nanmadol. Super-typhoon Nanmadol left at least 16 people dead after hitting the Philippines, and the toll is expected to rise as hopes of finding those missing fade, the civil defense chief said.

Vehicles are piled on top of one another on muddy ground after Typhoon Talas caused flash flooding in the town of Nachikatsuura, Wakayama prefecture, in western Japan on Sept. 5. Typhoon Talas cut across western Japan late on September 3, leaving at least 31 people dead and 50 missing after heavy rains and fierce winds.

A food vendor gives change to a customer along a flooded street in the town of Sena, Ayutthaya province Sept 13. Weeks of heavy monsoon rains and a tropical storm in Thailand have caused widespread floods and mudslides, killing at least 84 people since late July.

Pakistani villagers evacuate household items in a flooded area of Umerkot on Sept. 16. The United Nations said that it was stepping up aid to Pakistan, where monsoon floods have killed 270 people, affected over 5.5 million others and destroyed 1.1 million homes.

Rescue workers transport evacuees in a boat through floodwaters in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, in central Japan on Sept. 20. Hundreds of thousands of people in Japan were warned to leave their homes as an approaching typhoon brought heavy rain and fears of landslides and flash flooding.

Displaced Pakistanis wash their belongings in a flooded field in Mirpur Khas in Pakistan's Sindh province, after fleeing their flood-hit homes Sept. 23. In Pakistan's Sindh province alone, the floods have killed over 220 people, damaged or destroyed some 665,000 homes and displaced more than 1.8 million people, according to the United Nations. Neighboring Baluchistan province has also been affected.

Residents are evacuated from a flood zone Sept. 19 in Guang'an, China's Sichuan province. Heavy rains that have unleashed flooding across southwest China and left at least 14 people dead will continue to pound the region in the coming days, the country's meteorological agency said.

Policemen and residents run as waves from a tidal bore surge past a barrier on the banks of Qiantang River in Haining, Zhejiang province Aug. 31. As Typhoon Nanmadol approaches eastern China, the tides and waves in Qiantang River recorded its highest level in 10 years, local media reported.

Indian villagers with their cattle cross flood waters on a boat at Kasimpurchak near Danapur Diara in Patna, India, Sept. 27. Monsoon rains destroyed mud huts and flooded wide swaths of northern and eastern India in recent days, leaving hundreds of thousands marooned by raging waters, officials said.

Flood water covers the roadway Sept. 9 in Bloomsburg, Pa., after remnants from tropical Storm Lee continued to produce heavy rain overnight.

Unidentified teens walk through the high water and waves at the Mandeville, La. lakefront of Lake Pontchartrain from Tropical Storm Lee, on Sept. 4. The vast, soggy storm system spent hours during the weekend hovering in the northernmost Gulf of Mexico. Its slow crawl to the north gave more time for its drenching rain bands to pelt a wide swath of vulnerable coastline, raising the flood threat.

Cecil Flemming tries to maneuver his wheelchair through the waters on the Mandeville, La. lakefront of Lake Pontchartrain after waters crashed over the seawall from Tropical Storm Lee Sept. 4. The vast, soggy storm system spent hours during the weekend hovering in the northernmost Gulf of Mexico. Its slow crawl to the north gave more time for its drenching rain bands to pelt a wide swath of vulnerable coastline, raising the flood threat.

Pakistani men sit on the rubble of a house, surrounded by floods water in Badin district near Hyderabad, Pakistan Sept. 18. The floods caused by heavy rains have killed more than 200 people, made about 200,000 people homeless and left 4.2 million acres of agriculture land inundated with water, authorities said.

A displaced Pakistani boy stands on a narrow path surrounded by flood water in Badin District, in Pakistan's Sindh province Sept. 24. In Pakistan's Sindh province alone, the floods have killed over 220 people, damaged or destroyed some 665,000 homes and displaced more than 1.8 million people, according to the United Nations. Neighboring Baluchistan province has also been affected.

A girl, displaced by floods, carries pots as she walks on the trunk of a tree floating in the water near her home in the Badin district of Pakistan's Sindh province Sept. 23. The latest floods, triggered by monsoon rains, have killed more than 230 people, destroyed or damaged 1.2 million houses and flooded 4.5 million acres since late last month, officials and Western aid groups say. More than 300,000 people have been moved to shelters. Some 800,000 families hit by last year's floods are still homeless. Aid groups have warned of a growing risk of fatal diseases.

Residents living beside a swollen river walk through floods in Navotas, north of Manila, Philippines Sept. 27 as Typhoon Nesat hits the country. Massive flooding hit the Philippine capital as typhoon winds and rains isolated the historic old city where residents waded in waist-deep waters, dodging tree branches and debris.

Fishermen stand at the scene of a cargo ship washed ashore at the sea port in Navotas city, north of Manila Sept. 27 after Typhoon Nesat, locally known as Pedring, hit the capital, Manila. Typhoon Nesat pounded the Philippines' main island lashing crop-growing provinces and bringing the capital to a near standstill as it disrupted power supplies and closed financial markets, government offices, transport and schools. At least one person, a 22 month-old boy, died in the storm, and four people were reported missing.

A Indian girl sleeps at her mud hut surrounded by flood waters at Pahanga village Sept. 25 in Orissa's Jajpur district, India. Monsoon rains have collapsed mud huts and flooded wide swaths of north and east India in recent days, leaving hundreds of thousands of people marooned by the raging waters, officials said.