Flooding!

For the Nature's Fury challenge, we were asked to choose from a list of natural disasters and focus on an area that experiences our chosen disaster.

This year we wanted to focus on things in our area, so we chose flooding because flash floods and river and creek overflow happen where we come from in St. Clair County.

In our research,we discovered that floods are one of the biggest killers in the United States of America.  We found out so much on flooding we decided to make this video about some of the general things we learned.  In this video you will see different  areas.  We have also highlighted where some flood prone areas are located.  The first thing that you will see is a picture that we drew. In the first picture a flood is present. In the second picture, you will see how a house with stilts can survive a flood better then one without stilts.

After we started focusing on our area, St. Clair County, we discovered some of these flooding facts:

• Some flood causes are spring thaw, dam or levee break, ice jams, and heavy rain.
• Most people die by driving into floods
• Knee high water can wipe out cars
• TURN AROUND DON'T DROWN is a slogan from NOAA that helps educate people about not driving on flooded roads
• Most flood deaths are men
• Be very careful when driving at night during a flood watch.  Flooded roads are very hard to see.
• It is important to have a survival kit ready before a flood happens.