FLOODS
how often are floods worldwide Floods are the most common natural disaster after fires. they are very dangerous fast bodies of moving water.
In the united states flooding cost the government about 6 billion dollars worth of damage and kill about 140 people each year. from the Organization for Economics Cooperation in their 2007 studies, the flooding in the coastal areas cost about 3 trillion dollars worldwide. Recent studies have shown that now there are more 100 year old floods, by that they mean a flood that is very destructive that would usually happen once in about 100 years have been more recently occurring at a more often rate due to global warming. |
how likely are floods going to happen to you? The chances that you will find yourself being in a flood are probably greater than what you do in your everyday life. Studies have shown that the likelihood you of being in a 100 year old flood is 1 in 100 people and you might not think it is a lot but a 100 year old flood happens about only once in a every 100 years. That is more than your chances of getting killed in a car accident ( which is the #1 one killer in our modern era) and if you think that is bad enough as you decease the flood size but 1/2 every year you will find that your chances of actually being in one gets multiplied by 2. That means that 2 out of every 100 people will be in a 50 year-old flood and 4 out of every 100 people will experience a 25 year-old flood.
So whatever, floods are just fast bodies of running water, that happens once in a while, well if you are a homeowner then you should consider these facts. 1 foot deep flooded water can at least cost you 14,000$ and a 3 foot deep flooded water can cost you at least 27,000$ dollars (and please note that these cost does NOT include the cost for cleaning up the mud and residue left by the flood in your area. ) |
where and how often they occur. Well probably the most flooded place worldwide is a small country south of India called Bangladesh. It is the worlds most flooded place for a reason, its heavy monsoon season that bring lots of heavy rainfall, and the deforestation causes the soil there to loosen up and can cause sever mud slides that come with the flooding.
Floods can occur at almost any given time after a heavy rain fall and depending of the duration of the rain fall the strength of the flood can increase as the duration of the flood increases. |