Floods

"In the six hundredth year of life »...- holy book says," ... all the fountains of the great deep and the windows of heaven were opened and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, so that covered all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters and the mountains were covered. And lost her life all flesh that moved on the ground, and birds and beasts and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and all people. And the waters prevailed upon the earth 150 days. " So says the first Flood Bible. In literary and historical works of almost all nations of the earth contains stories about the flood. Nowadays, nobody doubts that these stories are based on real events. This flood was, apparently, the first global catastrophe that has ever experienced humanity. And in this century, floods pose many challenges for the world's population. In August 1952 a flood inundated the small resort town of Lynmouth. Water rose after many days of rain. From the sea the city rolled forward energized rainfall is unusually high returns. Raging muddy stream, the intruder for several kilometers on land and destroyed many houses, flooded streets, flooded homes and basements k water carried in a narrow valley fragments of rocks, uprooted trees. Were cut from the solid earth are many people who were resting in hotels and boarding houses on the banks of small rivers flowing into the valley. In the morning burst embankments and the second wave covered the surviving pieces of sushi. On that day, killing 94 people. Most recently, in August 1983, in Spain, the storm broke over the coast of the Bay of Biscay. The rivers, carrying their water in the Atlantic Ocean, came out of the banks and muddy stream poured into the valley. The water destroyed bridges, eroded roadways, flooded homes and court buildings, destroying agricultural crops. Five days of water tampering with seized its land. Day and night, rescue teams were taken on boats and boating element captured hostages. People were removed from roofs, treetops and hilltops .. No matter how rescuers tried, but 49 people did not have time to save. In principle, not excluded and a second deluge. In the last century has been some warming. Average temperatures on the planet each year increased by 1,5 ... 2 degrees Celsius. Solar radiation can melt the huge masses of ice and snow that has accumulated in the Antarctic and the Arctic. In this case, sea level will rise by 55 meters. To be flooded 25 percent of the land.