People blamed many factors for the extensive floods and resulting damage but some natural calamities are simply unavoidable. The state received 2087.67 mm of ra

People blamed many factors for the extensive floods and resulting damage but some natural calamities are simply unavoidable. The state received 2087.67 mm of rains this season when the floods started whereas the normal is 1606 mm. Rains haven’t stopped since then and all 35+ reservoirs had to open shutters at the same time to contain the flow. This is the largest rainfall in almost a century. The largest rainfall state ever received was in 1924 exceeding 3000 mm of rain which even washed away a mountain. So man made construction alone is not the cause for the destruction. Comparitively the Uttarakhand floods of 2013 that killed about 5400 people was only from 500 mm of rain. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatoday.in/amp/india/story/why-kerala-fears-repeat-of-1924-havoc-in-2018-rainfall-1315884-2018-08-16 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatoday.in/amp/india/sto...