![]() ![]() Like Kate, I went to a state school and I’m proud of it (UC Berkeley - Go Bears). I was on the Lightweight Women’s Crew Team in college. You might recognize Susannah from her work on Chicago Fire or for her stage roles, including Broadway's The Cherry Orchard. When the swollen rivers wash towards the Bay of Bengal, the stagnant water left behind will be an ideal breeding ground for typhoid, cholera and diarrhoea.Susannah Flood is the scene-stealing newcomer on the new Shondaland series For The People and we learned more about her for a 10 Fun Facts feature! International agencies say another danger is yet to unfold. "Don't lose heart."Ī few miles down the road, Bangladesh's most recent dictator, Hossain Mohammed Ershad, was also wooing political supporters, descending to open a public kitchen on behalf of his political party. I am not sure what Allah is up to, but it seems he is testing our patience and our faith," she said. The floods destroyed one crop and have drastically shortened the season for the one which should be planted now. She said bureaucrats were finalising preparations for distributing food in the coming months. Sheikh Hasina saluted their courage and promised that it would be rewarded. The convoy's jeeps were the only cars allowed on the road, which is blockaded by wild-eyed local men armed with wooden planks who have taken it on themselves to defend the embankment against unnecessary traffic. Yesterday she turned up at the embankment in a cavalcade of 20 vehicles, accompanied by dozens of youth activists wearing "flood victim" T-shirts showing Sheikh Hasina and her father and the assassinated founder of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Nor has Sheikh Hasina, who has appeared nightly on the state-controlled television news making chapatti or mixing oral rehydration salts for flood victims. The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina Wazed, has refused to declare a state of emergency, in part because her opponents have shown few scruples in using the calamity to score political capital. "The tide came and it rose again, but in the morning it ebbed." Now we can sleep," said Mohammed Babul, whose shanty lies just feet from the embankment. "The last few days we were working day and night. "We haven't slept or eaten we were too scared."īut the mood has eased, at least among the 500,000 people whose homes immediately beneath the embankment would have been swept away had it collapsed. "We have been working day and night," said Abdus Salam, who earns about a pound a day for his labour. An endless line of workers trudged with sandbags on their heads to raise the level of the embankment, the original height of which was at least five feet below the floodline. "I can't guarantee it will all be over."īehind him coloured paper baskets cradling rice and dal as offerings to the gods bobbed on the dark and festering waters that are threatening Dhaka. ![]() ![]() But you can't fight with nature," said a major from an army engineering battallion. The reprieve is due not so much to the government, which left the defence of the clay flood wall to private contractors and ragged armies of day labourers, but to the soldiers who moved in on Thursday with pumps and bamboo scaffolding to repair the damage caused by landslides. As the water rose in Dhaka's diplomatic enclaves yesterday, the British high commission and foreign embassies flew out children and dependants yesterday.Īt Chashara railway station, the most vulnerable point on the 20-mile embankment, government engineers said the panic earlier this week was behind them. ![]()
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