what disaster sounds life

in the story on page 33 thers is a vignette and its called what disaster sounds like and she says that when the night rain soaks the ground the paddy melt away. when the rice plants are sucked out of the earth one by one and washed down the slope. there should be a sound a noise announcing that something is terribly wrong. instead there is a ghostly hush that tells us we have lost everything. what she means buy this that it was verry rainy out if over filled all the plants and there patty melt is washed away and there at nothing again so they dobnt have anythig rite now and what they mean buy the ghost is that its so quiet after all this that there is litterly nothing