The joints failed even in cases of non-contact explosions; this prevented the hollow drum from collapsing as designed and resulted in massive flooding.

This plan proposed seventeen hydraulic structures that would prevent such massive flooding events, protecting homes and businesses.

Occasionally, massive flooding causes huge losses to crops, life and property.

Torrential rains in mid summer cause massive flooding of farmland and villages (by some accounts submerged in a metre of water).

It was restored again after damage by massive flooding in 1966.