An aerial view of houses submerged under the flooded Bagmati River in the village of Darbhanga in the eastern Indian state of Bihar August 2, 2007. Authorities are struggling to respond to flooding in South Asia, which has damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes and forced millions to live on embankments and highways. Across impoverished Bihar and the northeastern state of Assam, around 5.5 million people have been affected by the flooding.