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Photograph courtesy Russell Watkins, U.K. Department for International Development, featured in National Geographic |
In 2010, heavy monsoon rains dumped almost ten years worth of rainfall on Pakistan in one week. It is estimated that one-fifth of Pakistan was under water, 20 million people were affected and the total damages cost around $43 billion.
An intriguing effect of the floods was that the spiders and other insects crawled into the trees to escape the rising water. Because the waters took so long to recede, many of the trees became cocooned in cotton candy shrouds of spiderwebs.
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