...Many cubic miles of water turned to steam, and rain clouds enveloped the entire Earth. In the region of the Himalaya chain, weather fronts formed, bringing hellish cold. Terrible thunderstorms swept over the northeastern part of India, over the north of Burma and the Chinese provinces. The fertile valleys of Asia were flooded with water, and downpours hit the highlands. The dams could not stand it and collapsed, the waters fell down and rushed further, flooding everything around... Rain showers hit the planet, volcanoes awoke to life and threw out many billions of tons of smoke and dust particles - and they rose into the stratosphere. The Earth now looked bright from a distance a luminous pearl sparkling with flickering light.