Originally considered a blessing by their people, the citizens of Lagos no longer see rain as a blessing of any sort. With each year resulting in calamities for Lagos, multiple missing, and untold amounts of property destruction, Lagos and its unfortunate lack of preparedness for disasters makes the Philippines's National Disaster Coordinating Council seem like a bunch of legit psychics in contrast. It's not the government's fault, though, when mother nature decides that heavy rainfall needs to go hand in hand with whirlwinds in Lagos, just to make sure things get very dicey real quick.
Often counted as one of the nations with the highest average annual rainfall, what makes Papua New Guinea especially troublesome is its existence in the Pacific Ring Of Fire and proximity to the shoreline. As such, during the rainy seasons, it isn't all too uncommon for earthquakes, volcanic activity, and tsunamis to hit this country all at the same time. Gee, that doesn't sound like a great vacation spot
Parts of Bangladesh actually get an average 5,690 mm of rainfall annually, which is about 28% more rainfall than the Philippines gets in a year. What makes this worse is that Bangladesh is practically a catch basin where three rivers frequently overflow: the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, and the Meghna, and their combined output is second only to the Amazon river. Flooding is practically a way of life in Bangladesh, but despite these staggering numbers, it still doesn't hold a candle to…
The island of Samoa once had its entire geography reshaped by floods, as 90% of the entire island was defoliated by rainfall. Samoa averages about 7,500 mm of rainfall every year, and volcanic activity also completes the whole package of aquatic terror.
Try having nearly continuous rainfall for eleven straight months. Colombia was hit hard by the La Nina season after a particularly nasty drought, which meant that with a lot of flora (And cocaine!) dying, there was no preparing them for the 180-degree curveball tossed at them by their climate. With 3% of the country's total population displaced by the constant rainfall in 2011, the persistent rain simply caught Colombia with its pants down.
Once recording 26,461 mm of rainfall in a year in 1860-1861, Cherrapunji makes it rain like Chris Brown in the club after winning a Grammy and beating up another girl. Surprisingly, though, one freak performance wasn't enough for it to top the list, even though it was clear that about 150 years ago, Cherrapunji, India, clearly got all of the rainfall.
To the northeast of India, Mawsynram holds the record for being the "wettest place on Earth" (aside from Kirsten Stewart's va – [NO. – editor]), as it averages 11,873 mm of rainfall annually, nearly four times as much rainfall as the Philippines, or in scientific terms, a metric f**kton of rainfall. If God ever decided to make Hell out of water, you could almost chalk up Mawsynram, Assam as our best preview of this, were it not for…
As is, China has a history of horrible floods, what with the first six of the top ten worst floods of all recorded history all happened there. However, thanks to the massive amount of air pollution due to China's unmitigated industrialization in recent decades, acid rain makes the crap sandwich that is China's rainfall problem just that much worse.
Take the region of Shaanxi, for instance, whose city of Hancheng
had to have its water supply cut off temporarily in 2006 because they found 25 tonnes of caustic soda in the water, due to acid rain. Guys, when China, land of lead and melamine, has to admit that something is "too harmful for the public," you know it's really, really bad. Like, face-meltingly bad.