Natural Disaster: Is there Any Remedy?

One of the very things I'm really grateful for is how secure and safe my country is in regards to natural and environmental safety, looking at this week's @scifimultiverse prompt about natural disaster got me raking my brains this is one thing I haven't really experienced first hand except what I've watched in the movies or seen in the news and I can imagine the broad day horror this persons go through....

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This is one aspect of life we don't understand how blessed we are as a country to only hear the news of these natural disaster afar off, is it earthquakes, tsunami, fire, flooding ? Our topology is structured in a way such that we don't experience any of these, but that is not to say we haven't experienced some of such, however it's rarely occur, although at recent times I've heard of flooding in the northern state, were lots of properties were destroyed by the flood, houses, schools, hospitals where swept by the flood, it was a devastating site, right in a moment I can imagine the frustration these people are going through....

The flooding was so devastating it left many homeless, injured, killed, many had lost their source of income and are forced into a life of penury some unforeseen circumstance they never planned for, seeing families, father ,mother children swimming the dirty water trying to carry their little belongings on their head they could hold unto, not to think of the infections they will contact, how will they start all over, how will they survive, since everything is lost....

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Natural disasters are very heart breaking and it's something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, come to think of it how can they recover from the heavy lost, where do they start from, most times they little support from the government will barely get to them, by the time officials have taken what they could despite having so much, it pained my heart what these IDP's go through...

Can one ever be prepared for what's coming ? How can they know or become aware and mostly since we in these part of the world do not really pay attention to whatever the environment says, the least we do is check the weather conditions but since it has little or no effect to us we don't really regard such information.

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As I stated earlier that we are one blessed country in the surface of the earth, Good weather condition, favorable climate, comfortable environment that is perfect for life, supports our source of income and all round goodness.

However we have been careless as to how we handle our environment, for instances the only natural disaster we do experience is that of flooding and guess what that is caused by us, its either we are erecting building in water ways poor urban planning, using substantial materials for building drainage system, and in most cases these drainage are not properly done.
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In other cases we block our drainage with waste, I have observed in my local area whenever it rains people will bring out their waste to empty them in the rain such as plastic, plastic bags etc now at the end of the day this will go on to block waters says and drainage system causing flooding in our cities and villages, however if we pay attention to our environment do the needful we won't experienced what's happening to us...

This post is an entry into the @scifimultiverse weekly prompt, Check out the main post here

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