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Our studies suggest that some of the impacts of flooding, notably health damage, can have effects for years after the flood but the extent of these long term effects is not yet known. Moreover, the assessment is based upon the effects of flooding on individual households and the social support available from neighbors and friends reduces the severity of the impacts. Very large scale flooding will disrupt the community itself, reducing the degree of social support available as well as introducing further disruption. Work in the United States, where parallel studies on the non-monetary impacts of flooding is being undertaken, suggests that disruption of the community itself is a serious impact from large scale flooding.