Written by: Anushka Yadav - 2025003, Grade VI
Posted on: 31 July, 2019
During rainy seasons, when there is excessive rainfall, the river rises above the banks and flows into nearby lands causing a flood. It damages crops, roads, property, and life. In such times, water supply, communication, and electric lines get affected. There is a shortage of food, water, etc. Due to unhygienic conditions, diseases like typhoid, malaria and other diseases spread and cause to be epidemic. A cyclone is a very strong wind accompanied by heavy rains. In coastal areas flooding is caused by cyclones.
