The images haunt me - entire villages swallowed by muddy waters, families huddled on rooftops watching their lives wash away, children crying as they're evacuated from the only homes they've ever known. When the August 2025 floods struck Punjab, they didn't just submerge 1,000 villages and 61,000 hectares of farmland - they shattered 1.46 million dreams. These aren't just statistics; they're our brothers and sisters who lost everything in what became Punjab's worst flood disaster in nearly four decades. Farmers who toiled their entire lives watched their crops drown beneath the relentless waters released from overflowing dams. Mothers clutched their children as they fled homes that had sheltered generations. The elderly, who survived the floods of 1988, never imagined they'd face such devastation again.