What is flood?

Answer 1

A flood is usually a naturally occuring disaster, although actions of mankind can precipitate flooding.

Answer 2

Living in Louisiana, I've been in a couple. Down here it usually occurs when the rain fall makes the rivers rise higher than their floodstage and they overflow onto the land. When I was younger we had the flood of '83. The water was so high it flooded our entire house and it basically looked like a river as far as we could see. Many times the water will get so high (if you're in a low lying area) it will almost over the rooftops. In the case with Katrina it occured because the levee that usually hold the water from the Mississippi River broke and it leaked into parts of New Orleans - which is way below sea level. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

What Is A Flood

Answer 4

A flood is defined as a high flow of water that comes from a body of water (Basics of Flooding) and overtops the normal confinements and/or covers land that is normally dry.

Answer 5

A flood is when water goes all over the place

Answer 6

Ah Manu, you try to learn English no? Yes okay. Flood is word for very beautiful. For when you speak to beautiful lady, you can say, "you look like flood", and she will be very happy and think you romantic man.

Answer 7

if its flood from halo 2 then its some infested parasites but if its the other flood its a flood wich water takes over.......

Answer 8

A flood is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge.

CAUSES
Floods from the sea can cause overflow or overtopping of flood-defenses like dikes as well as flattening of dunes or bluffs. Land behind the coastal defence may be inundated or experience damage. A flood from sea may be caused by a heavy storm (storm surge), a high tide, a tsunami, or a combination thereof. As many urban communities are located near the coast this is a major threat around the world. Many rivers flow over relatively flat land border on broad flood plains. When heavy the deposition of silt on the rich farmlands and can result in their eventual depletion. The annual cycle of flood and farming was of great significance to many early farming cultures, most famously to the ancient Egyptians of the Nile river and to the Mesopotamians of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

A flood happens when an area of land, usually low-lying, is covered with water. The worst floods usually occur when a river overflows its banks. An example of this is the January 1999 Queensland floods, which swamped south-eastern Queensland. Floods happen when soil and vegetation cannot absorb all the water. The water then runs off the land in quantities that cannot be carried in stream channels or kept in natural ponds or man-made reservoirs.

Periodic floods occur naturally on many rivers, forming an area known as the flood plain. These river floods usually result from heavy rain, sometimes combined with melting snow, which causes the rivers to overflow their banks. A flood that rises and falls rapidly with little or no advance warning is called a flash flood. Flash floods usually result from intense rainfall over a relatively small area. Coastal areas are occasionally flooded by high tides caused by severe winds on ocean surfaces, or by tsunami waves caused by undersea earthquakes. There are often many causes for a flood.

Monsoon rainfalls can cause disastrous flooding in some equatorial countries, such as Bangladesh, Hurricanes have a number of different features which, together, can cause devastating flooding. One is the storm surge (sea flooding as much as 8 metres high) caused by the leading edge of the hurricane when it moves from sea to land. Another is the large amounts of precipitation associated with hurricanes. The eye of a hurricane has extremely low pressure, so sea level may rise a few metres in the eye of the storm. This type of coastal flooding occurs regularly in Bangladesh.

Under some rare conditions associated with heat waves, flash floods from quickly melting mountain snow have caused loss of property and life.

Undersea earthquakes, eruptions of island volcanos that form a caldera, (such as Thera or Krakatau) and marine landslips on continental shelves may all engender a tidal wave called a tsunami that causes destruction to coastal areas. See the tsunami article for full details of these marine floods.

Floods are the most frequent type of disaster worldwide. Thus, it is often difficult or impossible to obtain insurance policies which cover destruction of property due to flooding, since floods are a relatively predictable risk.

Typical effects

* Physical damage- Structures such as buildings get damaged due to flood water. Landslides can also take place.
* Casualties- People and livestock die due to drowning. It can also lead to epidemics and diseases.
* Water supplies- Contamination of water. Clean drinking water becomes a scarce.
* Crops and food supplies- Shortage of food crops can be caused due to loss of entire harvest

Answer 9

floods are when an overload of water wipes out a town or community and/or does sevre damge to the community/ town.

Answer 10

a flood is water, usually a lot of it, in unwanted places like your basement, new orleans and whatever, you get the point