public safety, more job creation, more recreation for the youth, and to reduce blight in the city. New Orleans is still in a transition stage. Even though it has been 9 years after Hurricane Katrina, one of America’s Deadliest Hurricanes, the city is still rebuilding, still restructuring and actually still growing. Hurricane Katrina affected the city’s economic wellbeing. The city has several departments that they have to help run the city and keep it going smoothly. In this rebuilding transition, the
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preparedness and response to hurricane disaster in within a community during or the before the actual disaster. THE ROLE OF THE NURSE' DURING HURRICANE DISASTER Hurricanes are a large tropical storms that comes with heavy rains. Hurricanes contains winds that may be in excess of 74 miles per hour and large areas of rainfall, creating flooding. In addition, hurricanes have the potential to create large and dangerous tornadoes (http://www.severeweather.com/hurricanes). The ocean-water temperature
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with over a billion users worldwide. Facebook went public in at an exceedingly ambitious valuation of more than $100 billion. It was the third-largest public offering in the history of the United States, behind General Motors and Visa. 11. 2005- Hurricane Katrina uprooted many families from the region and damaged the tourist economy of New Orleans. 12. 2006- The federal government in
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names depending on their location.In North America they are known as hurricanes, cyclones in India and typhoons in Japan and East Asia. The link between these location is that they all lie in a band between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and occur where the seas temperature rises above 27°C and is heated to a sufficient depth. When these storms occur the damage they cause can be catastrophic and often fatal. An example is Hurricane Katrina in late August 2005 which hit New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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College Writing 04 December 2014 FEMA August 25, 2005 Hurricane Katrina tore through the coast lands. Taking people’s homes and everything they owned. Lives taken and people lost unable to be found within the debris. The inefficient performance of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina resulted from the failure of the administration of President Bush to respond (Outman). They should have done more. Hurricane Katrina, and the subsequent flooding that devastated
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Tropical Cyclones also known as Hurricanes and Typhoons are one of the most dangerous hazards to people. Every year, they cause consdierable loss of life and immense damaged to property. However, tropical cyclones are essential features of the Earth's atmosphere. as they transfer heat and energy between the equator and the cooler regions nearer the poles. In this essay I will look at whether or not the impacts of tropical cyclones depends primarily on the preparedness and planning or whether other
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shows at times are very unrealistic, I think medical-drama television shows such as “SCRUBS” and “ER” can actually promote nursing in some ways. Episodes about doctors and nurses’ heroic efforts to save or help out victims in natural disasters (hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.) and accidents (car, fire, etc.) can promote a positive image for the profession. When I was a young kid, I was inspired to become like one of those television nurses and doctors so I can help people! Watching TV was probably
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stressful part is coaching a client to achieve balance between the internal need to act thoughtfully and strategically and the external pressures of the media’s never-ending news cycle,” Ferguson said. “This was particularly true in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.” Client reluctance to share information puts PR professionals in a precarious position. “It is most stressful when the client doesn’t share information with me in a timely manner,” noted Gayle Falkenthal, APR, owner, Falcon Valley
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disasters. Prior to the 11 September 2001 attack on the Pentagon, the plane crash in Pennsylvania, the World Trade Center, and the 2005 Hurricanes Rita and Katrina the Federal Response Plan existed which primarily focused on the Federal roles and responsibilities during an emergency or disaster incident. By using the lessons learned and the response to the hurricane season in 2005 the National Response Plan was replaced by the Federal Response Plan. The United States has dealt with a number of unprecedented
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------------------------------------------------- Effective Preparedness and Resilience Planning during Hurricane Sandy: Hurricane Sandy Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina University of Maryland University College Homeland Security Management: Resilience Planning and Preparedness for Disaster Response and Recovery (2152), Spring 2015 Written By: Brittany Wiley Introduction: Major Hurricane disasters along the coastlines have affected many cities and communities which have forced them to
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