India's Brahmaputra River was already flooded in early

India's Brahmaputra River was already flooded in early August (bottom image), but those floods turned out to be small compared to the floods that hit the river in early September (top). The river flooded for the third time in 2007 when monsoon rain pounded northeastern India, Bhutan, and Bangladesh in September, reported the news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6988590.stm BBC on September 11. As these images illustrate, the September floods were the worst of the year, forcing the Indian government to evacuate some 800,000 people from the banks of the river. An additional 500,000 people were evacuated downstream in Bangladesh. The floods damaged crops that had been replanted after the earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14430 August floods, said the BBC.