At least 137 people have died in the last few days from flooding caused by intense monsoon-season rains that have been lashing parts of Asia for weeks, according to government and media accounts.
-- Edited by elliskim on Monday 8th of September 2014 06:13:21 PM
This may have been easily prevented if the community was forewarned about how dangerous these floods can get. If water was managed better throughout the cities, this will lower the rate of water rising and flooding. As for the power lines, they should not be falling over, and be properly grounded and created for these kinds of natural disasters. I am positive that the houses that under go these floods could be built to a higher standard and better prepared for rain and floods.
Obviously monsoon damage can not be prevented. It takes top dollar and even then you never know exactly how hard a storm can hit. I think the government in Thailand, according to the article, was right to urge people to move to higher ground. However, not all people are going to be willing to leave their things and move. Some people just can not afford it. I think that the government should come up with more ways to help the people; by educating them in how dangerous flooding can be, (especially during monsoon season,) and by making laws requiring homes to be built to higher standards so that damage can be decreased in severity.
I think they could have prevented many deaths by having scientists detect when a major storm is coming and warned their people to take safety measures and move to higher ground. The countries should have also been prepared with rescue teams to go around and help people who got stuck in the storm.
i believe, although natural disasters can come suddenly and hit without any warnings, country's vulnerable to such serious disasters should have well thought out plans and a way to deal with the matter. With just a little warning countless lives could be saved by moving familys to higher ground or areas they will be safe. This all may be just too unrealistic, because areas in Asia where the monsoon have hit do not have the money or resources to have such complex storm detecting systems and people at the ready to help civilians when the storm will hit.
Unfortunately, no one has control over the weather. Therefore, there is no way to prevent the amount of rain flooding Asia. However, we do have the means to evacuate people to safer location until the flooding come to an end. But, this would require sacrifices on the part of other, more developed, countries to move these people. So I do believe the death toll can be stopped, or at least taper off, but only with the aid of foreign countries.
Of course they can't prevent this completely because it's natural. But now, after the flooding and monsoons they can be prepared. The state should evacuate people in risky areas and give them a shelter. I remember a few weeks ago, they had the same problem in Yugoslavia (south-east of Europe). They knew it's happening but they couldn't do anything against it because you can't evacuate a whole country. So all we could do was helping them. You could donate in different ways. Of course you can donate money to them, which is really needed to rebuild the houses and for the compensations. But they were also happy when you donated things you don't need anymore, so my family donated all the clothes which nobody wore anyway. I think that could be a thing we should do to help them because it's not possible to prevent it.
(Again, sorry for my English, I'm still learning )
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