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.
These âflash. floodsâ occur with little or no warning and. cause the biggest loss of human life than any. other type of flooding. Coastal areas are also at risk from sea. flooding, when storms and big waves bring. seawater onto the land.