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Floods
By: Randi McClure
Facts about Floods
• Floods happen when the average amount of water in a place rises.
• If land is very absorbent it is less likely to flood over in that place.
What can Floods cause ????
• Floods can cause death, loss of land and also destroying schools hospitals and homes.
Floods are helpful too!!!!
• Floodwater can deposit minerals and other helpful nutrients to the soil around it.
Floods Happen Because ????
• Floods usually happen because of large amounts of rainfall.
• They can happen if the rain is not absorbed in the ground quick enough.
Flash Floods
• Because they are so sudden they are extremely deadly.
• If water is stored up behind a dam and it breaks that is one cause of a flash flood.
How to help after a flood
• After a flood the first thing that you need to do is provide help to those that need it.
• The next thing that needs to be done is to get everyone that needs medical help to the doctor.
• The last thing that needs to be done is to rebuild the neighborhoods.