Heavy rains in late May 2004 caused devastating floods across southern Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which killed at least 2,000 people and displaced thousands more. Water supplies were contaminated by human and animal corpses, prompting a major effort by the Haitian Red Cross to promote greater awareness of sanitation and water-borne diseases.
The picture at left is a satellite view of the flooding that devastated New Orleans after the levees broke from the storm surge following Hurricane Katrina in August, 2005.
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This picture was taken after the waters started to recede following the deadly Tsunami around the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004.
Local resident Pat Callinan walks by a collapsed bridge in Cape Neddick, Maine, on Tuesday, May 16. Southern Maine received a record amount of rain over the week of May 9-16, 2006.
Flood waters rage down Warner Road in Henniker, N.H. (left)
