Question

narrative essay on an accident or a natural calamity(e.g a flood, a fire, a storm, an earthquake, a motor-car accident, a shipwreck)

Answer 1

Floods are caused by three factors – 1. Cloud burst, 2. Monsoon depression and 3. Tropical cyclones. Of late, deforestation and soil erosion are also causing floods. India depends for its rain on both the monsoons, south-western and north-eastern. The south-west monsoons start in May and continue up to the end of September. The north-east monsoon starts in November and continues right up to the middle of January.

Heavy rain caused an account of the three seasons referred to, result in the overflow of rivers. The major rivers that cause floods in India are the Ganges and its tributaries, the Brahmaputra and the Godavari. The problem has become severe now on account of deforestation and depositing of soils in the beds.

When heavy rains fall in catchments areas, they lead to soil erosion and the fertile alluvial soil is washed off and deposited in the river beds. This, at time, helps some countries. For example, the deposit left by Nile has helped Egypt. But it is not so in case of all rivers either in India or in china. When floods occur they inundate low lying areas by the sides of the rivers and caused huge loss of life, crops and other properties.