A standard 8-inch by 2 1/4-inch by 4-inch red clay brick weighs about 5 pounds. Bricks are used for a variety of building projects, such as walls, patio floors and pathways.
Flooding affects people in a multitude of ways. People suffer stress on multiple fronts, not just as flooding occurs, but also in the anticipatory period preceding a flood and during the cleanup and recovery phase. Flooding can damage properties, destroy homes, create financial burden and cause emotional hardship.
In terms of lives lost and property damaged, floods are just behind tornadoes as the top natural disaster. In the United States, flood damages totaled $8.41 billion in 2011. There were 113 flood-related deaths. Floods can affect any area to some degree; wherever rain falls, flooding can occur.here are several types of flooding. Overbank flooding: What most people think of when they hear the word flood.. Filled to capacity because of heavy rain or melting snow, the water within a river overflows its banks and spreads across the land around it.