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| Update: August 1 and July 29, 2005 - India Rain Breaks All Records; At Least 1,000 Dead. |
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| Bombay had 37.1 inches in 24 hours on Tuesday, July 26. Is it global warming fallout? July 27, 2005, Bombay, India. After 37.1 inches fell the previous day, people used ropes to move in the flooded streets. Image � 2005 by AP. |
| R. V. Sharma, Director of the Meteorological Department in Mumbai, told Associated Press, "Most places in India don't receive this kind of rainfall in a year. This is the highest ever recorded in India's history." Until now, the record had been 33 inches on July 12, 1910 in Cherrapunji |
| "The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so very thin. We know that we don't have much and we need to protect what we have." - Commander Eileen Collins looking at Earth from Discovery |
| Discovery returns to Earth early Monday |
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| South Asia Tsunami Crisis Do these stories have something in common? Is there a common link between them other than just weather, disaster, and bad ecology? |
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