Thread by @DrEricDing

Scale of the disaster—beside 1/3 underwater:

📌1350 people killed
📌50M people displaced
📌900K livestock deaths
📌1M houses washed away
📌40+ reservoirs breached
📌220+ bridges collapsed
📌90% cropped damage
📌$10B loss to economy

#PakistanFloods

Let this sink in— one third of Pakistan is now underwater. The growing number of extreme weather events around the world is due to the planet’s rising temperatures, weather experts say.

3) Eight consecutive weeks of heavy rainfall. Killed 1,100 people, affected more than 33 million residents, wiped out 1 million homes and destroyed 2,200 miles of roads. Nearly 500,000 people are in displacement camps—countless others have nowhere to go.
washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/…

4) Worrisome - outbreak of infections and diarrheal disease have now begun in flood-ravaged #Pakistan. This will be what kills more people than the direct flood drownings. Pray for Pakistan.

https://twitter.com/whopakistan/status/1565688609524555778

5) US’s @USAID has deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team to lead the US response to the catastrophic flooding in Pakistan. $30 mil in aid pledged. cnn.com/2022/09/02/pol…