An Overview Of Some Of The Most Shocking Natural Disasters In The Last 7 Months
Signs that global warming is as real as ISIS.
By Sadho Ram — 23 Jul 2016, 06:37 PM
1. In June, it snowed in KL during a massive hailstorm.
It caused widespread damage to property as trees and signboards fell on cars in Bukit Jalil and Seri Kembangan/Serdang area.
2. In June, central Paris was so flooded that people were seen swimming on the pavement near the Seine, the city's main river:
3. In April, flash floods in Pakistan killed at least 55 people
Pakistanis cross a flooded street following heavy rain on the outskirts of Peshawar.
Image via A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images via The Guardian4. In May, it rained so hard in Sri Lanka that it resulted in massive landslides and heavy flooding, which killed at least 73 people.
Scarily, the landslides buried victims in up to 50 feet of mud.
People struggle to cross a torrent of flood water on Saturday on the outskirts of Colombo.
Image via Ishara S.kodikara/AFP/Getty Images via The Guardian5. In July, heavy floods in China have killed 76 people, with 78 missing. The flood water has ravaged northern China, with water cascading over homes and turning streets into rivers.
Xingtai Hebei, Flooding pic.twitter.com/Wmg50Xy9Q1
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6. In May, 65 people were killed by lightning in Bangladesh in 4 days, taking the total number of people killed to 90 since March
7. In June, deadly lightning strikes killed over 90 people across India in just 2 days! Most of them were farmers working in open fields.
"Work is work. We can’t stop because of the weather. We have to keep working in the fields. But we feel scared when we see so many clouds, so much electricity in the sky," The Guardian quoted Lal Babu Usvaha, a farmer from Kanti Butiya village near the city of Muzaffarpur in the state of Bihar, as saying.
8. In May, India recorded its hottest day ever as the temperature soared to 51C, breaking the record of the previous hottest day from 1956. The blistering heat has claimed more than 300 lives.
Women try to draw drinking water from a small puddle, all that remains at the bottom of a well in Maharashtra.
Image via Rajanish Kakade/AP via The Guardian9. In April, two major earthquakes, with one being a 7.3 magnitude, in Japan killed at least 49 people and injured about 3,000 others
A woman stands in shock in front of her wrecked home in Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture.
Image via Japan Times10. In April, at least 661 people were killed and over 27,000 people were injured after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake ravaged Ecuador.
It was the worst earthquake for the country in nearly 7 decades.
Pallbearers carry a coffin to a cemetery as relatives mourn the loss of loved ones in Ecuador.
Image via CNN