flooding

Flood appears as a curse to the people who are directly affected by it. There are mainly two reasons that can create a flood: excessive rains and overflow of rivers. Rain is wel¬come for the growth of crops and cooling down the atmos¬phere, especially after the hot summer.
But excessive rains spoil the harvest, and sometimes with the accumulated rain water, the tanks are overflowed and fields and roads remain under water, and even water enters the courtyard or drowns the ground floors of human habitations. As the stagnant water remains for a few days, the people face numerous difficulties.
The insects, the serpents and many poisonous creatures take shelter in the human abodes, causing threat to the lives of the dwellers. The cattle, unable to save their lives, die for want of food and shelter.
The water becomes polluted, causing various life-taking diseases. People are sometimes found to take shelter on the branches of trees, which are near at hand, in order to save themselves, when their houses are submerged in water.
After the flood, it takes a long time for the wet land to get dried up. And in that marshy land, the remains of the dead cattle or the skeletons of human corpses lay scattered, making the entire area extremely polluted. That brings about plague, cholera and other dangerous diseases to those who somehow survive. Thus the flood is a horror, and its after¬effects are more horrible.
After the flood, there is hardly anything left for the people to accept. The crops do not grow, because the land becomes barren. The water of the tanks and wells gets polluted. The scarcity of drinking water becomes an acute problem.
The cattle having died, the poor house¬holders become helpless. Numerous huts of the poor people are demolished by constant water-stagnation, making them homeless. Food grains become rare in the flood-affected areas.
There are many other problems that a flood brings to the unfortunate people, in whose area flood enters. Although the