Most Powerful Forces on Earth: Floods | Fatal Forecast | Free Documentary

Floods are scary. Most natural disasters are scary but to me it seems especially scary to maybe drown or be swept away by flood waters. Either way, floods have been around since forever. But the frequency and the phenomenon between droughts here and more floods there seems to be increasing. Another problem is when a region has been plagued by drought for a long time, and then it rains: flooding because the ground is so dry, it can’t absorb the water. Floods explained in a more scientific way here ☝🏼😉

Life is scary. A lot of people are even scarier.

interesting fact: In every glass of water we drink, there is high probability that some of the water molecules in that glass were once consumed by our ancient ancestors. Water density keeps most of it locked by Earth's gravity to the atmosphere, and the surface and subsurface. It is the rapid redistribution of water all over the Earth that is the concern, and is what causes rapid floods in areas unprepared for floods, and drought in areas unprepared for drought. Manmade factors are accelerating this change, and accelerating and compressing the normally millennial-scale global climate changes into the scale of only decades.

Excellent presentation of very informative materials.

The magical music at 2:12 is Smetana's 'Vltava', his tribute to the beautiful river. In this early section, he describes its origin as a tiny stream in the mountains, and he goes on to evoke its majestic flow through Prague. It is a lovely piece of music. The 'Czech national river' also runs through Germany, where it is named the river Moldau, so Bedřich Smetana's tone poem is also called 'Die Moldau'.

"Hope" is a dangerous defense against climate change.

When I lived in Prague in 2001 I remember my grandma showing me a newspaper article talking about the flood that happen approximately each 100 years in the Vltava River. Then it happened the following year. It will happen again but maybe sooner than 100 years now because of global warming.😢

I appreciate these docs 🙏!

I can’t believe we had experts from the US speaking on the topic after we absolutely fumbled every aspect of Hurricane Katrina.

This documentary on the power and peril of water highlights the critical importance of understanding and managing floods. It's a reminder of how nature's forces can shape our lives. Thanks for shedding light on the efforts to tackle this challenge and protect our communities.

That's something that I've not seen anyone else do a video about. Congrats Ryan good job

The information you share is really useful

That's great hopefully when things calm down next week my house will be a bit closer to the beach

Thanks.......from Asia / myanmar

Hat's off you ur team ❤❤❤

I eagerly watch any documentary produced by Free Documentaries as their films are based on hard facts, scientific approach to any social or natural phenomenon with probing of causes and methods of solving problems that are life-threatening to humans if not resolved properly. This documentary on the science of flooding and its devastating effects are chilling to watch. Thanks for the good work.

Now, it is a massive flood in Beijing once in 145 years, the capital of China, from remnants of a typhoon.

I enjoyed this documentary

I hope the horrible bad weather doesn't come around too often , it is very scary not just for humans Also for the animals, And the animals cannot Help themselves end up Losing them.

Your action is catastrophic.