Why did the floods happen in mozambique?
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Flash floods are sudden floods that happen after a heavy rainfall. Such were the type in Mozambique in 2000. These floods claimed many lives and left thousands of survivors homeless and with shortages in food, clean water and employment.
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people opened the Kariba dam with no warning and that what caused part of it by annalie joyce
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Cause: Tropical Cyclone Flavio. The 2000 Mozambique flood was a natural disaster that occurred in February and March 2000. The catastrophic flooding was caused by heavy rainfall that
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the reason why Mozambique gets floods is cause of their heavy rain falls and for 1 of them floods is cause the other country opened the dam gates when the river was already full
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Floods are caused when large amounts of rain overflow rivers, which causes the excess water to wash onto dry land, which essentially causes floods. You can find more information here
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