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Indian Flood Victims to Spend Six Months in Camps Hundreds of thousands of Indian flood refugees are likely to spend six months in state-run relief camps while authorities rebuild homes, roads and river embankments in the flood-ravaged north, officials said Monday. More than 257,000 people have taken shelter in 313 state-run camps in Bihar state, where the Kosi River burst its banks last month and turned hundreds of square miles of land into a giant lake, said Prataya Amrit, a state disaster management official.
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2.5 Million Indians Stranded by Flood Nearly 2.5 million Indians remained stranded, homeless, and hungry in flood-ravaged villages in the eastern part of the country Tuesday, 17 days after a river burst a dam in neighboring Nepal and changed course. Heavy rains and the swelling waters of the Kosi, known as the "river of sorrow" and worshiped by local people, caused havoc in almost 1,000 villages in Bihar state.
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Although help to those affected by the horrible damage in the heartland will most likely be forthcoming, relief to the rest of the country due to skyrocketing food prices may not. Sixteen percent of Iowa farms have been destroyed and their entire crops demolished following the severe flooding.
The devastation has in turn caused record high market prices of corn and soybean products.
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Despite backbreaking teamwork to sandbag the riverbanks, the Mississippi River broke through an Illinois levee forcing nearly half a dozen people to be rescued by helicopter. However, because the federal government learned from a 1993 flood in the same area and planned for a repeat, the damage could have actually been much worse.
After the 1993 Mississippi flood, President Clinton purchased much of the low-lying land buying out more than 9,000 homeowners.
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Bush Says Funds Available For Midwest Floods
US President George W. Bush on Tuesday said there was enough money in a government relief fund to handle the flooding disaster in the Midwest and he planned to go to Iowa this week to review the damage. On his first day back from a trip to Europe, Bush said the government had enough money in its Disaster Relief Fund to handle the problems caused by the worst flooding in the region in 15 years.
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