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Question
What type of difficulties are faced by people during floods?
Look at the picture, what kind of a school have the children come to after the flood? Write down what people had to do to make their life normal again after the flood.
Solution
The following difficulties are faced by people during floods:
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Many people die.
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Many people get injured.
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Their houses and other valuables get destroyed.
- Their farms are destroyed.
- A lot of food items are destroyed.
- There is a scarcity of drinking water.
- Water-borne diseases are spread.
- The roadways and railways get, affected badly.
- Schools, hospitals, and other important public places get destructed.
It has been shown in the picture that after the floods, since the schools of the children have been destroyed, as a result of the, they have to study in a park or under a tree.
- People have to start from scratch to make their life normal.
- Cleaning the house and submerged goods is the first measure task after the flood water recedes.
- Many people may have to start an altogether new occupation to earn money.
- People have to rebuild their houses.
- They have to arrange for safer drinking water.
- The government has restored the rail and road network as quickly as possible.
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