Rising River

Lizeth Rivas

English 100

October 7, 2015

Rising River

“Natural disaster is a wake up call for humanity” Most people who live in the city called  Santiago Papasquiaro, which is my hometown saw the flood that happened in October, 2010. Five years ago, my hometown was affected by a flood. People had to live under bad condition because the water was everywhere. Too much rain caused the flood. This disaster was caused for all the rain for a week. The rain also caused that the river  to grow. The river grow and the river eventually swept away houses, families and animals. This natural disaster affected my family, because we live near to the river, and we had to leave the house. As result, all of the people  in the  community near the river could not  have communication, transportation and food.

At the beginning, this natural disaster caused a lack of communication with other communities. This natural disaster destroyed the telephones signal was down. Whenever the river grew people could not talk with other people who live in  another community. When the river grew people could not communicate with their family because they did not have cell phones. This disaster affected my family because my grandmother lived in another community. Moreover, this disaster affected me because we had to leave our house,  and my family could not communicate to the rest of the family, and I could not attend school.

In addition, this disaster also caused transportation problems. According to my family, people needed to cross the river to go to the another community because they needed to go the grocery store. In addition, people who lived near to the river had to leave theirs houses and live with family or friends. My family who had more family  members in another community could not know if they were affected or not. In my hometown the river was a kind a river bad, which people had to cross to get to the real street and go to the other community. When the river grew people could not cross the river and go to visit the family and friends. The river grow too much that almost all the time the river took enters houses and cars. It is hard not having transportation to other communities because people had to buy food. Each time that the river grow people could not  cross the river because it was dangerous.

Finally, the flood made it difficult for people to go and buy food. Another  effect is that people need to have enough food in their homes and be prepare to this kinds of natural disasters his river is very dangerous, and people needed avoid to be near of the river. I have better life in the United States because I did not have to worry about food. Therefore, my life  had changed a lot because I do not live near of any river and I can go to the store and buy anything I want to eat. Moreover, when my family live in my hometown, they usually bought wholesale food. There were a lot of families that they did not have the opportunity to buy food such my family. This flood affect the community because people were not prepared to survive this natural disaster.

To conclude, My family was the first that moved out of the town to another place to avoid this kind of flooding. As a result, my family decided to leave Santiago Papasquiaro and come to the United States to have a better life with more protection and live in a place which is less dangerous. However, I have always wondered what happened to the people who still live in my hometown. My family was able to survive to this natural disaster, but there were families that lost some families members. Because we had to leave our home, my family was not able to  communicate to the rest of the family.