Life in Lahore

I wrote in 2005 about Lahore, Pakistan:

Another worry was rain. One day, the neighborhood would be alright. Then, it pours overnight. The next day, there would be a river in front of the house. There was once over two feet of foul water in front. We had to go through that to get groceries.

Now, you can see a few photos of the city in that condition.

Thank Towelie, I'm in Canada.

Comments

[Saul Wall]

Huge swaths of the Muslim world are complete deserts and the rest gets drowned? Between this and the tendency for the Jewish "God's chosen" people to be enslaved scattered, lead to the part of the Arab world without oil, and beset upon by every ethnic group known to man, I am beginning to see a pattern. If there is a God, the best choice of action is to stay on his bad side. Once you start praying to him he figures out where you are and then starts picking on you.

[Josh Scholar]

I know that this sort of thing is pure misery, and the aftermath of destroyed homes and mildew etc. is awful. But water in the streets somehow makes for beautiful photographs none the less.

[Saul Wall]

It is a feeling of awe. Many huge disasters, both natural and artificial can provoke it especially those which involve forces far beyond our scope of experience. This awe is likely why people are often so quick to use God as an explanation for such events even though it sounds so insane to others.

[Josh Scholar]

It is a feeling of awe. Many huge disasters, both natural and artificial can provoke it especially those which involve forces far beyond our scope of experience. This awe is likely why people are often so quick to use God as an explanation for such events even though it sounds so insane to others.

Yes I feel exactly that way whenever Windows shows me the blue screen of death!

;)