Disastrous Floods Kill Tens of Thousands Every Year
This makes them very vulnerable to large floods. Flooding is very much part of the cyclical flow of water and it is neither good nor evil; it is just Mother Nature's way of doing things. Babylonians left us stories of the disastrous floods. If you'll recall we ended one year recently with a giant tsunami killing over 200,000 people.
During hurricanes you are much more likely to die from the flooding by drowning then you are to die from the high winds or something falling on you. The storm surges of Hurricane Katrina killed far more people than the winds did. Extreme weather brings extreme rain and that rain runoff often over flows rivers and causes huge avalanches that bury people alive.
In the United States we have zoning ordinances and building codes which take into consideration the hundred year flood and we spend millions of dollars on every large project simply planning for that potentially eventuality building large ditches and canals to divert the water.
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