Very often people come across with different natural disasters.
Unfortunately we can’t stop them.
Believers consider natural disasters to be something from above.
This is why people can do nothing to avoid them.
Volcano eruptions are one of the most destructive natural disasters.
During a volcanic eruption, lava, tephra, and various gases are expelled from a volcanic vent.
Then lava rushed from the top of the mountain covers all on its way.
Just in few minutes all the nearby houses and very often the whole villages turn out to be buried under lava.
Fortunately, nowadays there exist warnings considering different natural disasters.
So in case of some volcano eruption people of the nearby area usually got a timely warning.
Thus they have enough time to evacuate before the lava will reach this nearby area.
A timely warning can save thousands lives of humans and some part of their property and cattle.
Another natural disaster happens quite often in risk zones.
It is an earthquake.
An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves.
It is a dreadful natural disaster as if the level of an earthquake is high it can cause lots of serious disruptions.
The whole buildings can fall down through the cracks in the ground.
Other buildings can turn into ruins.
Such natural disasters usually cause damage assessed millions or even milliards dollars.
Moreover, earthquakes results in a great deal of casualties.
Tornado or hurricane is a common natural disaster for many regions.
But it doesn’t make it less horrible.
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulus cloud.
When people hear a storm warning, they need to hide somewhere in a cellar not to be injured or killed by tornado.
When a hurricane is over you can see demolished houses with smashed windows, upturned cars, twisted metals, uprooted trees, victims of a tornado, in a word, a total devastation.
Floods seem to be not as horrible as tornadoes or earthquakes, but such an impression is misleading.
A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land which is usually dry.
One of the main reasons of floods is rain, usually torrential.
When it rains for several weeks without breaks, it is undeniable that rivers can overflow.
Another reason is thawing snow.
In the wake of a flood all the nearby houses turned out to be buried under the water.
Household items float along the river together with cars, cattle and people.
The whole villages are paralyzed.
They go without any power supply, so they are completely cut off from other people.
Wildfires cause lots of harm not for people and their places of living, but for the forests and wild animals as well.
A wildfire is an uncontrolled fire in an area of highly inflammable flora that occurs in the countryside or a wild area.
Flames of wildfires damage a great number of trees in forests.
Thus lots of animals can lose their usual places of living; some of them can even die.
It takes hundreds years for the burnt forests and plains to recover from the fire.
Sometimes a wildfire can burn nearby villages.
In conclusion, I want say that natural disasters are dreadful, destructive and fatal, but they remind people of the value of human’s life.
What is more, I think that natural disasters are nothing in comparison with disasters of which people are guilty, such as wars, crimes and drugs.
June 2014
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