Editing Natural disaster (section)

==== Floods ====
{{main|Flood}}
{{see also|List of floods}}[[File:Limpopo.jpg|thumb|The [[Limpopo River]] during the [[2000 Mozambique flood]]]]

A [[flood]] is an overflow of water that 'submerges' land.<ref>MSN Encarta Dictionary. [http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861612277 Flood.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204203836/http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861612277|date=2011-02-04}} Retrieved on 2006-12-28. 2009-10-31.</ref> The EU [[Floods Directive]] defines a flood as a temporary covering of land that is usually dry with water.<ref>{{cite web |title=Directive 2007/60/EC Chapter 1 Article2 |url=http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:288:0027:0034:EN:PDF |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151106094442/http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:288:0027:0034:EN:PDF |archive-date=2015-11-06 |access-date=2011-11-14}}</ref> In the sense of 'flowing water', the word may also be applied to the inflow of the [[tides]]. Flooding may result from the volume of a body of water, such as a [[river]] or [[lake]], becoming higher than usual, causing some of the water to escape its usual boundaries.<ref>Glossary of Meteorology (June 2000). [http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/search?id=flood1 Flood.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824054504/http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/search?id=flood1|date=2007-08-24}} Retrieved on 2009-01-09.</ref> While the size of a lake or other body of water will vary with seasonal changes in precipitation and snow melt, a flood is not considered significant unless the water covers land used by humans, such as a village, city or other inhabited area, roads or expanses of farmland.