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didn't the same thing happen in 2010? https://www.criticalthreats.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Pakistan-Flood-Severity-by-District-High-Quality-8-26-2010.png

• hedora 4y ago
  According to wikipedia, that left 300,000 people internally displaced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Pakistan_Floods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Pakistan_Floods 33 million are currently being impacted by the floods. I'm not sure how comparable those two statistics are. However, it seems unlikely that there will only be 300,000 displaced people once the water recedes. Also, the map you linked shows districts that were hit by flooding in red or orange, and about 33% of the map is colored. I assume that they colored a district if any significant fraction was under water. That's very different than the current situation, where 33% of the land is under water.
  • koheripbal 4y ago
    33% of the land isn't underwater. A simple view of the flood map makes it clear the headline is exaggerated.