By Rome Birchfield Science Mr. Shepard

The North Carolina Clyde 2004 flood did a lot of damage to the town and killed two people a old woman and a firefighter.

 Floods are caused by rainstorms, slow water runoff, earthquakes, broken dams, under water volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, hurricanes.

 How to keep safe from a flood. Construct barriers such as beams, sand bags. From entering your home.

Was the North China flood it took place in ,000 people died.

 Rushing water is so powerful. That it resembles a wall of concrete. Just a bathtub weighs about 1,500 pounds. Imagine that coming at your home.

There's two types of floods. One is a flood then there's a flash flood. The difference is a flood takes seven to six days to come a flash flood takes six hours.

On the left there is a wallaby standing on hay to keep safe from flood. On the right there's rescue worker saving a boy out of Queensland flood.