In the world we live in emergencies happen all around us, the biggest question one can think of is are we prepared, and what are we ready to do in the situation? Far too often there are large incidents ranging from multi vehicle accidents, entrapment, wild fires, terrorist attacks, and sudden severe weather and so on that require a split second response from multiple agencies with hundreds of working personnel to save the lives of many. Any average person not working in a field relating to or participating
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LASA 2: Monitoring Our Home Planet Module 5: Assignment 1 Alessandro Ramirez-Maldonado Argosy University Remote sensing was first used in the U.S. in the 1950s by Ms. Evelyn Pruitt of the U.S. Office of Naval Research, is now commonly used to describe the science—and art—of identifying, observing, and measuring an object without coming into direct contact with it. It involves the detection and measurement of radiation of different wavelengths reflected or emitted from distant objects or materials
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Hurricane Harvey devastated many areas in September of this year. With thousand of homes destroyed people all over the country have joined in the effort to help those affected. Through several fundraisers and donation centers our own town of Durango has played a part in bringing relief to all the victims of the awful storm. Harvey destroyed more than 40,000 homes in houston, it destroyed millions of cars and killed or injured more than 40 people. “When I threw the fundraiser together I thought I’d
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Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans in 2005 Most of the population in the United States is known for living in coastal cities such as: Houston, New York, and Miami. Although these cities have significant landscaping, behind the landscaping is a hidden body of water. That body of water is mostly an ocean rather than a river. Since coastal cities are closer to a body of water – known as an ocean – the chances of floods increase through seasons. While living in the coastal planes, there is a higher
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federal officials expect 450,000 people will need disaster assistance and 30,000 people will need shelters. FEMA is encouraging citizens with boats to volunteer to rescue stranded residents. The National Weather Service recently announced that the tropical system hit a record level of total rainfall. In southeast Houston, 49.32 inches of rain has been recorded so far. [2] Flooding records cannot accurately be obtained because the levels of water in the Barker and Addicks Reservoirs have actually flooded
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Hurricane Katrina? The communication systems broke down hours after hurricane Katrina because nobody had been prepared to handle disaster 0f such magnitude. Everyone went into shock and those responsible did not have a clear-cut plan or well-defined procedure to initiate proper rescue and recovery procedures. Due to the rapid winds and the flooding, millions of phone lines and cellular towers had been brought down. Most of the cities switchboards including the police’s later broke down too. What
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Hurricanes are very dangerous, they are more powerful than tornados. Especially if it’s a category 5 hurricane, then you need to be ready and prepare. You should always be ready you may never know when a hurricane warning might be issued to your area. Learn all the evacuation zones near you, and pack a little bag for your primary essentials bc you might be at risk and be in a evacuation area so it will be best to be ready. Like most people say you can always rebuild a house but you can’t rebuild
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A plethora of natural disasters have occurred in the past twenty years, but very few compare to the social and economic impact Hurricane Katrina had on the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Katrina formed on August 23, 2005 over the Gulf of Mexico and strengthened to a category five hurricane. The places that were affected by this hurricane ranged from the Bahamas, Louisiana, Alabama, and other parts of the southeastern region of North America. The estimated count of fatalities was about 1,800 and more than
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What would you do if your best friend was riding inside of a wave sadistically staring at you while trying to drag you in with them? What would your reaction be? In Haruki Murakami’s The Seventh Man, a young boy and his friend witness the unimaginable while battling the after effects of a major typhoon both physically and mentally. The first thing that we learn about our main character is how he lives near open ocean, which is dangerous in times of raging storm. He has a friend whom he calls K
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Esteemed Delegates, by the time it takes me to read this speech, an area of Brazil's rain forest larger than 200 football fields will have been destroyed. Brazil has been struggling with deforestation for over 40 years, and the rate in which the Amazon Rainforest is being cut down has only decreased slightly. The Amazon Rainforest is the world’s biggest rainforest still standing, and is responsible for filtering and reprocessing much of the world’s harmful carbon dioxide output. Ironically as rainforest
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