Mo Isu remembers the first major floods in 2012 and sees how the climate crisis directly affects the people along the rivers in Nigeria. Today, he shares the voices of people whose communities struggle to adapt to the destruction of each rainy season. Here's Mo Isu with Loss is on the calendar.

Here are two reasons why June is not like any other month. One, it marks the alpha point of the year. Two, perhaps more significantly because of the rain. In the tropical climate of Nigeria, where there are two seasons, the dry and the wet. June kicks off the height of the wet season. If you get caught out in the rain without an umbrella in the middle of June, you cannot blame the weather forecast. Only yourself.

Personally,

I like the rain. I like watching the drop spot I guess my windows. I like the cold breeze it brings, replacing the humidity. I like the certainty of it. Usually, we know when the rains are coming and we know how to prepare for them. Usually. In 2012, it felt like no one was prepared for the rainy season. I was 15 years old at the time, living with my family in the art of Lagos. I remember this one week in July, when the rains came and did not stop. It rained on Monday and on Tuesday and on Wednesday and was still raining when the next Monday came around. All the while, I watched from the safety of my house on the third floor of a three-story block of flats. I watched the pounding rain, the blossom rains and the caution stream of water flow down the streets. I was oblivious to the change that this particular rainy season was going to bring. It is a critical situation for a number east and west. Flows have taken over the entire human habitations and the people at Lebs Helpless as their homes and farmlands are completely washed away. In 2012, Nigeria saw its worst blood in 40 years. The 15-year-old version of me that watched the rain from this window learned from the news what other Lebs drew. The rain this year was more than they had bagged in form. By the time June had come and gone, the zestad struck. Still, the world was yet to come.

When Asplots continues, the ravaged parts of the country, even areas early believe to be safe are being overrun. In Delta State, 43 communities in the Sapa South and Sapa South.

Communities in the middle belt and south of Nigeria were the worst hits. The rivers overrun their banks and poor drainage gave one off from the downpour nowhere to go and saw the water found home in the places where people live. All houses, this appears, living only the top of their roads. The

situation is not better in Kogi State. Yet, people are unable to leave their homes and those who have gone outside the state before the wicked floods are now

stranded. The floods have ravaged communities in Benway, Niger, Kogi, Edu and Kano states. Many lucky enough to be alive and not refugees in their own country.

The flooding has also hit Adamawa and Taraba. Kano, Bauchi, Jigawa and Kaduna as well. The official death toll is around 140 so far, but aid agencies fear that will rise as disease takes hold. By

the end of the 363 people are died. Seven million people in 32 of Nigeria's 36 states had been affected. 2.1 million of them were displaced from their homes. In 2012, Victor Daniel was 18. His family moved to Lokojia two years earlier. Lokojia is a river-run and fishing community. The capital of Kogi State and the town were in the areas to digest rivers converge. When the flooding started, because Fada raised the first alarm, Victor was at the time in university in a different part of the state. When the rains came, it's Fada called him, but he met Fada with more skepticism than concerned.

I really didn't think that it was that serious. My father had it for a dramatic so when he had a few doubts, this man was coming again.