River Flood Essay

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notes for the natural disaster summative new-1931 flood of the yellow, yangtz, and hue rivers disaster in china - these three rivers cover a vast majority of china. over flowed over 88,000 sq km. death tole- more than 1 million people draw in their sleep. over 3 million died of starvation and disease. reports of canabilism have been recorded so that the people can stay alive. damage- 4 million lost their homes the flood- the flood started in april. lasted until september. "The deadliest natural disaster ever recorded occurred through the winter, spring, and summer of 1931 in central China. There are three major rivers draining this area, the Yangtze, the Yellow, and the Huai. All three flooded catastrophically, because the winter snowstorms were particularly heavy in the mountains around the river basins, and when spring began, all this snow melted and flowed into the rivers. Then the spring brought particularly heavy rains. Then the cyclone season, which usually brings only 2 storms per year, brought 10, 7 of them in July. All this water swelled the three major rivers, especially the Yellow River, and because they drain a very large, very flat area of China, somewhere between 3.7 and 4 million people were drowned or starved. Nanjing City, China’s capital at the time, became an island surrounded by over 100,000 square kilometers of water, more area than the state of Indiana, or all of Portugal." From 1928 to 1930 a long drought preceded the flood. By some accounts abnormal weather over central China began in the winter months of late 1930. Heavy snowstorms in the winter were followed by spring thaw/defrost with heavy rains that raised the river levels even higher. The rain increased into July and August of 1931. In July alone 7 cyclones hit the region. On average two occur per year.(weather history) the total death toll from the floods is

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