Disaster Essay
Class I. Weon Yujin
Thailand flood is occurred occurs every year. That is why people do not get panic when flood come.
The flood of in Thailand is because of the Chao Phraya River’s overflow. This river is Thailand’s
main river waterway which located in center of the Thailand. However the flood in 2011 is more
extreme than former flood which made many people feel anxiety anxious and hopeless unusually.
There are two reasons for this flood: natural disaster and man-made disaster. The first natural
reason is record-breaking rain. By the end of July, a typhoon named ‘Banyan’ started to blow and
since that time it rained continuously without any break for two months. In this period more an
increase of 40 percentage of rainfall is was observed. The artificial reason is the lack of supervision.
In Thailand there is was a civil war before the heavy rain, so the government cannot manage their
flood control project. These two causes make Chao Phraya River overflow and then the place around
the river is inundated.
When the floor flood is coming comes people think it is a just common flood that would
happened for few days and disappear as usual. However few days later, the sky was still filled with
dark clouds keep black, the Sun never come came out, and it rained all the times. These situations
make people get worried and become depression depressed. More days later, the water level at the
river comes high rose and black waters get faster. These phenomena are the symptom signs of flood
but the government did not announce to the people, so when the flood get started people did were not
prepared for the disaster and then they get panicked.
The unusual heavy flood in Thailand makes made many people get depression depressed and
ruins ruined all the many things in that country. It is a serious damage for other countries all over the
world especially in the field of IT. Therefore, people who live all around the world should help this
country to overcome this disaster.
*** The candidate was able to give a good account of the flood that took place in a particular country.
Content was fine, but the extent of damage and casualties could have been more detailed. Some points
were also quite general. Most of the lapses were on proper word forms and using the correct verb
tenses in narrating the occurrence.