The word ‘hurricane’ refers to violence that comes from the tropical or subtropical waters of the Atlantic, Caribbean, Mexican, or North Pacific. This term is used to describe the Gulf of Mexico. To be able to keep active, hurricanes need warm tropical waters, moisture, and...
Beginning on August 14, 1969, Hurricane Camille traveled through the East Coast, with the most damage in Alabama, Virginia, Florida, and landfall in Mississippi and Cuba. Hurricane Camille has been named the second most intense hurricane, the third strongest tropical cyclone, and is one of...
Hurricane Maria and Joplin’s tornado were both lethal cases of extreme weather that resulted in billions of dollars in damage, destroyed the livelihoods and houses of all in its paths, and resulted in many casualties. This essay will be comparing the two events in terms...
Introduction On October 22nd 2012, a hurricane out of season began to form south of Jamaica heading north. This was Hurricane Sandy, the 4th most costly hurricane ($65bn) to hit the USA (NOAA, 2018). Sandy made landfall as a Category-1 in Jamaica and upgraded to...
In the 21st century the world has been taken aback by the yearly natural and man-made disasters that have occurred everywhere. No matter how prepared we believe are there is always area of improvement or an area of learning after each and every disaster. Specifically...
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A natural catastrophe happens without any fundamental understanding, and several homeowners are not even familiarized with the essential steps needed for the appropriate rehabilitation occasioned by water disasters or storms. Repairing your office or residence to its old immaculate state needs expert assistance. No one...
The purpose of this report is to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of disaster management and response strategies to Hurricane Sandy. The report aims to identify these factors so that positive aspects can be built upon and limitations can be improved on in the future....
When Hurricane Sandy tore through the New York City Metropolitan Area on October 29th, 2012, it immediately became one of the costliest natural disasters in American history. The image that the country saw of Hurricane Sandy was mainly images of Manhattan streets being flooded in...
The Dust Bowl happened in the 1930’s due to lack of moisture in the air and the ground. It covered 3,000 square miles of territory. Places like the panhandle of Texas, Kansas, South eastern Colorado, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. It was 400 miles long and...
The topic that I have chosen to cover in this assignment is the tornado. Being from the Midwest I have seen my fair share of the enormous storm cells and find them to be quite interesting. As long as I am at a safe distance...
Disasters are a major problem worldwide and a serious threat to sustainable development. Malawi is no exception. Disasters, as defined by DoDMA, are serious disruptions of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds...
Abstract Disaster recovery and business continuity plans should be developed which include the definition of what constitutes a disaster, procedures of what should be done to recover from various failures, and how the business will resume. The plan should be tested and periodically reevaluated. Backup...
In this paper, we are going to compare and contrast the Inform values, Hazards, Vulnerability, and Coping Capacity for Afghanistan, Canada, Japan, and Cameroon. These four countries differ in ways of the population, economic issues and disaster frequencies. Seven/Eight major plates and several minor plates...
Cyclones and the world Cyclones have been targeting the world and leaving undefined destruction. There have been thousands of cyclones in the world. We will be discussing the top ten worst cyclones in the world. The top ten worst cyclones in the world have ruined...
Tornadoes are one of earth’s disastrous natural disasters that have taken countless lives. In designated places around the world tornadoes are formed which tear apart homes, towns and cities to shreds. The following with explain how tornadoes are caused, their effects, and how we can...
Introduction Severe tornadoes and thunderstorms can be very dangerous. They can cause thousands of dollars in damage and even kill thousands of people. When there is a severe thunderstorm, it can create more violent and extreme weather, for example flash floods and lightning. Thunderstorms can...
Abstract This paper goes over the different articles provided in HSEM 456 class on how poorly or well-prepared leadership was during Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy, what they failed to learn from previous incidents from Hurricane Katrina and Sandy. This will go over whether or...
When Hurricane Sandy was making its way north across the Caribbean, it was creating a predictably large storm. However, due to its route prediction model been produces many different scenarios which made it impossible to reach an accurate consensus on the threat. Therefore, the first...
According to the Emergency Management textbook, Rubin wrote how the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA was founded on April 1 1979. When President Jimmy Carter enacted one of his executive orders in 1979 he merged, essentially all disaster related organizations into the oversight of...
Natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey are always trailed by wellbeing concerns and vagrancy but one main topic always forgotten about after such disasters is the issues with price gouging. The web is blooming with takes on how price gouging is beneficial but in reality it...
The development of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam can open up Ethiopia. The construction of its wide transmission system will enable industries to prosper by creating necessary power and providing skilled jobs, thereby retaining young people and sustaining a society with a complete cross section...
On May 10, 1996, five perished conquering Mount Everest. The unprecedented tragedy has been analyzed from multiple lens and conflicting views abound what went wrong. No single cause can be identified in high-stake decisions that lead up to the disaster. A complex system of errors...
In Jamestown, many disasters were causing long-lasting, painful deaths. Many reasons caused Jamestown to lose 80 percent of its population. One of the three reasons that caused this was that the land that they wanted to conquer had people living there already, The Patawomeke Indians....
Introduction Natural disasters are caused by natural earth processes like floods, droughts, cyclones, tsunami, earthquakes and hurricanes which are unpreventable. These events cause huge losses of lives, infrastructure damages and as a result, a loss of country’s GDP. Instead of using resources wisely to manage...
Introduction For more than half a century Japan has proven to be a front runner in the global economic market. From pre-WWII days to more recent times, this geographically small country has made strides that have been unseen in other regions of the world. Even...
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Every year our Earth is affected by something or the other. Be it storms, global warming, even pollution. But there is one topic that is heard of every year and happening before our very eyes. Natural disasters. Did you know that all over our Earth,...
In 2018, 315 natural disasters were recorded, with over 68 million people affected and approximately 12,000 deaths (Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, 2018). Comparisons show that the number of disasters has significantly increased over the past 25 years (Than, 2005). On 2nd...
Introduction This report will go into detail about how the 2002 eruption of Mt Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of Congo impacted the local people of Goma. Mt Nyiragongo is a stratovolcano on the east side of the Democratic Republic of Congo, close to Rwanda...
Hurricane Katrina killed 1,833 people with 1,577 being from Louisiana. Of those killed 40% were from drowning, 25% were from injury or trauma, and 11% died because of heart conditions. Almost half of the deaths in Louisiana were elderly people over age 74. Ninety thousand...
Introduction On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, approximately 1883 persons lost their lives, mostly children and elderly. Many people lost their homes, businesses, and most of the town infrastructure was devastated, as a result of engineering system levee, sea wall failure, and...
Introduction A disaster is defined as an event bringing great damage, loss, or destruction. An emergency is an unforeseen combination of circumstances or an urgent need for assistance; such as a multiple car crash on I-4. A disaster typically affects a large number of people;...
Imagine attending a major university in Texas such as Texas State University or Texas A&M. You are nearly 100 miles from the Gulf Coast, yet your classes are closed due to flooding from Hurricane Harvey. An inconvenience, yes, but this is hardly a life-threatening natural...
Bangladesh is a disaster-prone country. Every year different climatic hazard occur in this tropical area. In the natural location of our country we are most affected of such calamities. There are an ample scope of devastation of lives and property due to different natural calamities....
Hurricane Katrina became one of the deadliest storms at any issue to hit the US. A massive expected of humans die and others were left homeless alongside the gulf coast and in New Orleans. Earlier than typhoon Katrina made landfall governor Katherine Babineaux Blanco introduced...
Problem Statement The purpose of this Masters Research Project is to design a permanent structure that acts as a shelter that protects residents in Key West from hurricanes, and an intersection of travel for incoming resources. This shelter will be a permanent and pre-emptive structure,...
Through the cinematic drama of The Day After Tomorrow, I saw what our actions and words could do to the innocence of nature. The storms and the snow-ravaged city of New York, as well as a group of U.S. citizens, tried to survive the few...
Hurricane Harvey was a Category 4 storm that hit southeastern Texas on August 25, 2017. The storm wreaked unprecedented devastation in the highly populated city of Houston and surrounding regions. In the article “How to Fix the Houston Floods.” Dylan Baddour of the Houston Chronicle...
For a hurricane that reached landfall at “category 1”, the resultant effect, damages and response it has garnered over the past few days of its inception is nothing close to that of a category 1. With over 1 million people displaced and without power, 43...