18. Natural Calamities of Bangladesh
(a) Why is Bangladesh called a land of natural calamities?(b) What is the most common natural calamity here?
(c) When does it occur? (d) What is the impact?
(e) How do the people suffer?
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Bangladesh is called a land of natural calamities. Fires, droughts, earth quakes, violent storm, flood, earth erosion are the most common natural calamities. Of these natural calamities nor’easter occurs most frequently. It blows sometimes in a terrible form. This storm often occurs at the time when the sky is covered with black clouds and gusty wind blows. Children find pleasure in collecting manages under the mangoes trees. Children pick up the hail and rejoice. Sometimes it causes havoc beyond description. Every year cyclone destroys our lives and properties, floods take away all things to the river and sea and earthquakes destroy our lives, homes. Cold winter, mist storm impede our normal works of everyday life and sometimes destroy people. Almost everything that comes within its sweep is destroyed and carried away. Houses and buildings are blown down, giant trees are uprooted. This causes much harm to people. They only can make up the loss after the intensity of the disaster is over. This is not all, nature is also losing its balance for increasing heat created from carbon-di-oxide. So, green house effect is swelling the normal level of seawater. After any natural disaster, people who become shelter-less have to depend on the relief and charity of other people. Actually we become miserable after any calamities. We cannot resist them. We can only take some steps to lessen the misery of the victims.We can create consciousness among people and train them how to protect them from the grim and grave natural hazard.
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