50 Subscribers: Riddle 5

Here’s the fifth riddle in my celebration series after reaching 50 subscribers. What is the answer to this riddle? What could it be? Have a guess down below.

What good man is so learned and so clever that he can say who drives me forth on my way? When I rise up strong at times furious, I thunder mightily and again with havoc I sweep over the land, burn the great halls, ravage the buildings.

Smoke mounts on high dark over the rooftops. Clamor is everywhere, sudden death among men. When I shake the forest, the trees proud in their fruit, I fell the boughes.

With my roof of water, by the powers above⁠ I am driven far and wide on my avenging path.
I bear on my back what once covered the forms ​of the earth-dwellers, their body and soul together in the waters.    

Say what covers me or what I am called?