Country Life is a British weekly magazine, based in London at 110 Southwark Street, and owned by IPC Media, a Time Inc. subsidiary.he magazine covers the pleasures and joys of rural life. It is primarily concerned with rural communities and their environments as well as the concerns of country dwellers and landowners and has a diverse readership which, although mainly UK based is also international.
According to the Book of Genesis, the great Flood of Noah occured about 1656 years after creation, or about 4,300 years ago. However, scientists say there never was a worldwide flood as described in the Bible. Moreover, they say, there is not enough water in the world for this flood to actually happen.: Genesis 7:6 says that Noah was 600 years old when the Flood began. The story of Noah was easy to remember and pass on orally, as his first son was born when he was 500 year â¦ s old, the Flood came when he was 600 years old and he died at the age of 950 years. + 3 others found this useful.
In the United States, where flood mitigation and prediction is advanced, floods do about $6 billion worth of damage and kill about 140 people every year.A 2007 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that coastal flooding alone does some $3 trillion in damage worldwide.In China's Yellow River valley, where some of the world's worst floods have occurred, millions of people have perished in floods during the last century.isaster experts classify floods according to their likelihood of occurring in a given time period. A hundred-year flood, for example, is an extremely large, destructive event that would theoretically be expected to happen only once every century.