Almost every time we turn on the news, there's always bad news on the headlines. Sometimes, it's about war, and other times, it's about a natural disaster that claims lives. The thing about some natural disasters is that some don't even give any form of notice or signs before occurring.
Fortunately for we Nigerians, we don't get to experience most of these bad natural disasters. We only see them in the news . We hear of natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, volcano eruptions, tornadoes, wildfires, hurricanes, and landslides. We don't even experience any of these natural disasters i mentioned. Does that mean we don't experience any type of natural disaster? Of course not, floid is our major problem.
Flood is a very bad natural disasters no one wants to experience. It's tough and not a good experience at all. Over flooding can cause death, loss of property, and destruction.
Whenever i watch the news and see how flood has destroyed people's homes and their properties, i always feel sorry for them, not knowing I'll get to experience it someday.
Sometime last year, June, it rained heavily to the extent that the water levels began to increase. My house is a storey building, and i live downstairs. That fateful day, the heavens poured down. It rained for so many hours, nonstop. I peeped through my window, and i saw the water levels have increased, and it would enter my apartment any moment, i was scared because i had never experienced flood, before i could think of what to do, the flood began to enter my apartment and, in a blink of an eye, my whole apartment was filled with water everywhere was flooded.
The first thing that came to my mind was lifting all my properties from the ground and arranging them in a way the flood won't get to it. I couldn't secure all my belongings, before i could finish up, the flood had affected some of them. I became downhearted, i cried so much, i was pained and disappointed. I never knew that there would be time when I'd get to experience flood. Then the part where had to get rid of the water was a big challenge. I started using bucket to pack the water out of my apartment, i parked water for more than 2 hours and it was like i was not doing anything, the water kept increasing, at a point i got exhausted and decided to rest a bit, because my back was beginning to hurt me.
After so many hours of trying to get rid of the water, i finally got rid of the waters. After that horrible experience, i decided to renovate my apartment, i hired a brick layer to help me increase the ground level of my apartment so that when next there's a heavy flood, it won't enter my apartment . I repaired every hole where water can come in. This experience wasn't a good one at all and i don't even wish for anyone to experience this type of natural disaster.