- published: 30 May 2016
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A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land which is usually dry. The European Union (EU) Floods Directive defines a flood as a covering by water of land not normally covered by water. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide.
Flooding may occur as an overflow of water from water bodies, such as a river, lake, or ocean, in which the water overtops or breaks levees, resulting in some of that water escaping its usual boundaries, or it may occur due to an accumulation of rainwater on saturated ground in an areal flood. While the size of a lake or other body of water will vary with seasonal changes in precipitation and snow melt, these changes in size are unlikely to be considered significant unless they flood property or drown domestic animals.
Floods can also occur in rivers when the flow rate exceeds the capacity of the river channel, particularly at bends or meanders in the waterway. Floods often cause damage to homes and businesses if they are in the natural flood plains of rivers. While riverine flood damage can be eliminated by moving away from rivers and other bodies of water, people have traditionally lived and worked by rivers because the land is usually flat and fertile and because rivers provide easy travel and access to commerce and industry.
A dead issue, don't wrestle with it, deaf ears are sleeping
a guilty bliss, so inviting (let me in), nailed to the cross
I feel you, relate to you, accuse you
wash away us all, take us with the floods
then throughout the night, they were raped and executed
cold hearted world
your language unheard of, the vast sound of tuning out
the rash of negativity is seen one sidedly, burn away the day
The nervous, the drifting, the heaving
wash away us all, take us with the floods
then throughout the day mankind played with grenades
cold hearted world
and at night they might bait the pentagram
extinguishing the sun