Surviving and Rebuilding: The Devastating Impacts of Floods

They had to overcome destroyed buildings, houses, schools, etc from all the floods. Water was everywhere, the water was filled with bits and pieces of buildings and much more. There are no people to be found in the water or in any buildings looks like they were evacuated to a safer place. One of the challenges are that People would have to use boats to get around and find other people that need help with getting to a safer place. Another challenge is that the floods are getting bigger and most, if not all the people of Yuma have to get to a safer area or the floods will hurt or if not kill them. After the flood dies down, they would have to rebuild everything all over again making it a challenge for them because every time there is a flood

Some of the effects that are positive is that the soil for plants gets the nutrients it needs, the water can last a while the same methods of planting can still remain the same . The negative part is if it's too hot the water will dry up causing the plants to die it would last about 2-3 months, if the gate is opened too much it may cause another flood. If the water passes a certain limit an alarm will go off letting the people know that there may be a danger approaching. there is water in a small city in Yuma, the negative is that it looks like the water took down some houses causing the house to fall in the water. The positive is Some of the houses look untouched it could be that the water is a little shallow. There is a building that looks unharmed, it could be a shelter from the flood making it a positive effect because people are out of harm's way. People are in boats making it another positive thing they have transportation to get to safer places the only negative to be seen is the water, making people use boats instead of cars, walking, bikes etc. Colorado improved the water distribution and also increased the water conservation making this a positive part of Colorado dam the only down side is the delay it take a while for the

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