Saturday, January 30, 2010

Flood Everywhere

Flood is on of natural disaster. This disaster happen almost over the world include Malaysia.



Flood in Malaysia

Heavy monsoon rains cause flood in Malaysia. Kelantan never missed from gain horrible flood because of the location of Sungai Kelantan which is nearest to Sungai Golok and when one of the water river increase, the probability to the flood occur is high.



In Malaysia, floods are normal natural disasters which happen every year during the monsoon season because of Malaysia's geographical location, flood occurs naturally of cyclic monsoon during the local tropical wet season by a heavy and regular rainfall around October to March.

Flood that happened in some of the place in Malaysia not cause of the monsoon season. Like in Southern Johor, the flood hapened because of Global Warming effect because Johor is not within the usual monsoon affected zone.


Flood in Jeddah

The tragic flood was happen in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on 25 November 2009. More than 100 peoples were died and hundreds were missing. Most of the families save their selves on the roofs to run away from the rising flood waters. The water raising quickly because of the drainage system that was unable to cope with the load of water.


Most of the people around the world and Saudis think that this area is impossible to gain horrible flood because of the kand of Jeddah is low and flat near Red Sea. There are many Dry Riverbeads that direct from the hills into the Eastern areas of Jeddah.

Sadly, many of these are had been built with uncontrolled and illegal by the poorer people. A rain of high amount transmits huge amounts of water into Jeddah through the Dry Riverbeds and then through the streets.





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