two adverse effects of flood
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cause damage to life and property
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The consequences of flooding can be devastating. Flooding immediately destroys lives and properties. Flood effect can change the feature of land areas permanently.
What are the effects of flood? The most immediate floods effect would be the destruction of homes. People get displaced and may have to evacuate to higher ground where their lives are at risk as long as the waters remain on a certain level.
Causes and consequences of flood affect not just people but the environment. The destruction of structures such as bridges and roads add to the human toll and prevent help from reaching devastated areas. Structures such as nuclear power plants are also put at risk. On 2011, a tsunami hit the coastline in Japan causing leakage in nuclear plants. There was high radiation recorded on the area and authorities feared the worst.
Many people including animals are affected by the flood. Floods effect are expensive disasters and rebuilding an area devastated by a flood can be costly. In the United States, they cost $2.4 billion per year and can occur with weather-related disasters such as hurricanes, and typhoons. Rivers which overflow can also cause waters to rise in an area. A dam breaking, snow melting also cause floods. Earthquakes, which presage tsunamis can cause massive flooding in coastal areas.
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