Natural Disaster in Bangladesh

Some Causes of flooding in Bangladesh: Bangladesh, which has 156 million people (July 2009 est.) and the area is 144,000 sq km including 10,090 sq km of water, so the total land is 133,910 sq km. Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable places to climate change. As the sea level slowly rises, this nation that is little more than a series of low-lying delta islands amid some of Asia’s mightiest rivers – the Ganges, Jamuna-Brahmaputra and Meghna. Bangladesh has more than 150 rivers cross Bangladesh and almost all rivers flows close to the danger marks during flood time. Experts said that major rivers like Jamuna and Padma could overflow at anytime if heavy rainfall occurs and continues for a week. Floods have wreaked havoc in Bangladesh throughout history. Major flooding recorded in recent years occurred in: 1987, 1988, and 1998; the most recent one occurred in 2007. According to government statistics, 298 people died and a total of 10,211,780 people were badly affected by it. 56,967 houses were damaged by the floods up to 13 August 2007. In 2004, around 30 million Bangladeshis affected by flood, and more than 40% of the capital city, Dhaka were the underwater. Weather experts says this year 2009, Bangladesh have a huge probability of over flooding, because of very short winter and global warm.
Bangladesh Cyclones-2007 The sheer population density of Bangladesh 2,639 people per square mile guarantees that any natural disaster in that South Asian nation will take a severe human toll. When Cyclone Sidr struck southern Bangladesh on Nov. 15, it was no different. Packing winds of over 100 mph, the storm took out power lines and trees, and pulverized mud-and-thatch homes.The death toll was over 1,000, with more than half a million people forced to flee their homes. But by Bangladesh's sad standards, Sidr was nothing a cyclone in 1991 killed an astounding 140,000 people.
Barisal, Bangladesh, November 16, 2007-An elephant is employed to push a stranded bus as part of an effort to clear roads after Tropical Cyclone Sidr slammed into the Bangladeshi coast with winds of 140 miles (225 kilometers) an hour. The storm swept heavy rains and high winds across the low-lying  country on Thursday, leveling homes and forcing about 650,000 villagers to evacuate. At least 425 people are believed dead, according to the Associated Press.
Many sections of land are like saucers, with riverbanks forming their rims. Silt raises the riverbeds, not only creating chars [islands of silt within rivers] but also causing the rivers to spill over their banks, sometimes carving out a new course. … At Sadullapur the Meghna River ate away 200 feet (61 meters) of earth in ten days.
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