Floods! Floods! Floods!Some pictures are from the recent flooding in the Midwest, others are from the monsoon floods in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh - all are harrowing images, telling a wet, miserable story of people, animals, cars, property vs. the sheer forces of nature.

(artist conceptual image: Jaap Vliegenthart)
Main Street in La Grange, Missouri -

(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
(image credit: Susan Saulny)

Animals seeking refuge:

(Photos by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

(Photos by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The rising Mississippi River has broken high-water records up and down the Iowa and Illinois shore, cresting as high as 12 feet above flood stage in some places. Estimates place the cost of the damage at over $1 billion dollars, and concerns are rising over crop damage, toxic remnants that were washed into neighborhoods, future mosquito invasions, and maintaining supplies of clean drinking water. Communities further downstream are bracing for possible flooding as well.

More about Mississippi Floodwaters in Iowa [Big Pictures]

This is how Modern Mechanix magazine (Dec, 1935) showed cataclysmic flooding event:

(image credit: modernmechanix)

Nothing on such a global scale yet (though if you believe the news, the North Pole will be without ice this summer, so soon we may have more water than we ever asked for) As for the present situation, lets start with the recent pictures from Mississippi region (worst floods in 15 years) -

Muscatine Flood (check out more pics at Iowa Flood) -

Signage rendered useless, or just redundant:

(Photo by Barry Williams/Getty Images)

(AP Photo/Steve Pope and Win McNamee/Getty Images)

You can see the power of high water here (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) -

(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Braving the deep:

in a car -

in a kayak -

in a… table -

or you might need one of these portable do-it-yourself submarines:

Now fishes can shop in Walmart, too:

(Photos: Brian Davies / The Register-Guard; Steven M. Herppich, Tony Overman / The Olympian)

Powerful storms in Pacific Northwest led to serious flooding this winter; this is Chehalis, Washington in December 2007 -

(Photo: Bruce Ely / AP)

Interstate 5 got flooded one meter deep for the whole 5 kilometers:

(Photos: Bruce Ely, Ross William Hamilton / The Oregonian; Drew Perine / The News Tribune)

Havoc in Aberdeen, Washington:

Just like in the past, trains have to try to get through, flood waters or not:

(image credit: Harvesting the River)

Flooding in Asia

This “eating soup” picture has already become a classic:

(image credit: Okuno)

Some photos are from China: weeks of heavy rain led to a serious flooding there this summer - (more info)

(image credit: QuarkSoup)

What a miserable job… but I would also question the integrity of a rider who asks for such a service -

(image credit: morecoolpictures)

Unexpected LOL-humor in a miserable situation:

Stumble it!