Explain the effects of heavy rainfall.

EFFECTS OF HEAVY RAINFALL

Living in Singapore, we do not often see heavy rainfall. But we know that the effects are many in countries which do experience them. Some of the effects are beneficial but many of them are not. Like in anything else, too much of a good thing is bad. Hence though rain in reasonable quantities is essential to life, heavy rain can be destructive.

First of all, there are benefits from heavy rainfall. Heavy rainfall actually washes the air and the earth and rids them of harmful substances by washing them into the sea. Certain plants, like rice, require heavy rainfall to grow properly. However, the effects of heavy rainfall are mostly harmful.

To begin with, heavy rain washes away the top soil making the soil infertile. This has far reaching consequences. As time goes on, soil in which farmers used to plant crops begin to give poor yields – both in quality and quantity. Naturally this gives rise to food shortage and if carried on for long can cause starvation.

Too much heavy rain also causes floods. The devastating effects of floods are well known to most of us. In places where floods are frequent the lives lost are countless. There have been recorded instances where the lives that are lost are so many that none knows how many were lost. In other instances, there were situations where no one could identify the dead.The reason being that anyone who can identify the dead are dead as well. Whole villages have been lost and governments have been helpless and even armies have stood by wringing their hands in despair. Such has been the effect of heavy rainfalls. Besides the loss of human lives, the loss to property has been devastating too. Animals have been wiped out and millions of people have become homeless. The cost of these have been so much that villages and towns have become ghost villages and towns.

The effect of heavy rain, especially when it comes out of season has been devastating especially to farmers. Certain societies which depend on the rains have especially been troubled by the heavy rain. It is a strange phenomenon which cannot be prevented or even predicted. Those affected by it are just at its mercy.

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