It was monsoon season and the floods rose from the gutters blocked with garbage and the beggars' children played naked in the waters.
"Sure, you'll still suffer the last vestiges of the south-west monsoon season, but this amounts only to occasional, short showers in the afternoons every other day or so, " says Booth.
More than 770 people have died as a result of this year's monsoon season across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
Pakistan's southern Baluchistan and Sindh provinces are used to heavy rains during the annual monsoon season,but this year the floods are much worse than normal,the United Nations estimates more than 2 and one half million people are affected.
And that melting ice could interrupt the north Atlantic ocean circulation, which would alter global weather patterns and ultimately switch off the Asian monsoon season.
An El Nino event can also bring wetter weather to parts of the United States and can affect the monsoon season in India.
From Lahore and Faisalabad in the east, this year the center and start of Pakistan's monsoon season became instead Nowshera and Charsadda.
The flooding was caused by the nation's annual monsoon season which typically brings heavy rain.
Bangkok is low-laying and always threatened by floods during monsoon season.
