Different countries experience different disasters that are both natural and artificial, although most of these are situations that cannot be avoided and in most cases again they are situations that are caused by the people because they refuse to adhere by natural rules to guide their community or environmental safety.
Natural disaster are occurrences that happens naturally, these kinds of disasters are not man-made rather they are natural forces that harms people properties or their environment. Often times, natural disasters happens as a sudden and quick occurrences without warning, my country Nigeria experiences several kinds of natural disasters to such as flooding, drought,desertification, pest infection, erosion, epidemic and so on. These disasters can be dangerous as they can inflict injury, debt, destruction or even displaced people from their natural environment.
One of the most common natural disasters that happens in Nigeria especially in my community is flooding. Flooding is a situation when water takes over a dry land, this usually happens when there is excessive rainfall or an overflow of the river. However, in Nigeria most of the flooding disasters we experience are usually caused by poor water drainage systems. This could be related to the fact that people are the course of most of the flooding that happens in the country because they tend to disrupt the flow of water in drainage Systems by pouring dirt in them.
Another major cause of flooding in Nigeria, is the poor town planning system with no proper drainage system and heavy rainfall. Recently, we experienced a situation in my community where we had consistent rainfall for 7 days, it was so intense that people could not carry out their daily activities because of the rainfall and the fact that it had caused flooding in several aspects of the community.
Just yesterday I went out because I had to visit the community center to partake in a volunteer activity, I could not take transport because most cabs and motorcycles were avoiding the street because of the depth of the flooding.
In conclusion, the effect of flooding can be so grave to the extent that if these disasters are not avoided, they can inflict pain on the people. Some of the effects of flooding are loss of lives and properties, destruction of Farmland and crops, damages to roads, this can cause diseases and can displace people's homes. However preventions can be taken by the government or the community to prevent flooding by building proper drainage systems, gutters and so on.
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