FLOODING
Exceptionally heavy rain or rapidly melting snow may result in more water than the river can hold. Then, the water spills over the river's banks and spreads across the river's floodplain. Flooding also occurs when the ground is saturated with water, and can't hold anymore, but the rain keeps coming.

Flash floods are very fast moving floods. Urban floods means streets are filling up with water, rural floods fill countrysides, and river floods mean rivers are overflowing.

FLOOD SAFETY
  • Get to higher ground. Lower elevated areas fill up first.
  • Don't drive through flooded areas. Nearly half of all deaths from floods are auto-related.
DROUGHT
The ground turns dry due to a lack of rainfall for a long period of time. Droughts cause large fields of crops to die, and fertile top soil to wash or blow away. Fires are more likely to burn because plants are very dry.