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.
They can all have a knock on affect to a change in quality of life. They can also have an affect on peoples life's â¦ environmentally, health and economically. Floods have wiped out cities in the past and left the people that survived the flood homeless and where the city was is usually left barren forever.