This shows what an impact a flood can have when people live in a high risk area. To understand the power that the water has in a flood is difficult. In floods water can reach 20 times higher. It is also worth remembering that 2.5 million cubic feet of water falling 1000 feet from a mountain has energy equivalent to 3 atomic bombs while the amount of water flowing through the Mississippi in one year is 19 million cubic feet. This does not include floods.
Floods have immense power.
There can be many disastrous consequences of a flood in a heavily populated area. Bangladesh is a low-lying country that is very flood prone because of its situation. Bangladesh also suffered flooding during 1998 as two months of rain inundated two-thirds of the country. Officials have said the death toll from more than two months of flooding passed 1,000 and could keep rising if a looming diarrhea epidemic is not contained. Diarrhea, caused by polluted water or rotten food, accounted for 227 of the 1,040 deaths caused by the disaster, the worst flooding in Bangladesh's history, officials said.