Natural Disasters in Suriname

Video Transcript

The interesting thing about Suriname is that there are no natural calamities. There are no tornadoes, no hurricanes, no anything. No anything. I think a year or two ago there was some flooding, which was really unusual. And it, I think it actually caused a few deaths because it was so unexpected. It's just generally hot. You have a rainy season, and off the top of my head I don't know when that season is. And in the rainy season it'll... Really any tropical environment, when it rains, it's the thunder and lightning from the Heavens. And the skies open up and you really think it's the end, for about twenty minutes. And then it clears up and it's bright blue skies, [the] water evaporates. But I mean it just, streets fill...

In this video, a native Surinamese talks about natural disasters.