Natural Disasters In North America

During our week in New Orleans, we will have excellent opportunities to learn about different cultures, the effects of natural disasters, and reasons as to why New Orleans is facing poverty and economic distress through our volunteer work with Project Homecoming, 1 in 5 homes in New Orleans is still blighted, 10 years after Katrina. New Orleans still has a high rate of blighted (abandoned) homes. We will be helping to rebuild homes, but we will also be helping to improve the surrounding community spaces such as there local gardens.

America`s infrastructure has been a concern for years, but as populations begin to grow and structures begin to become outdated the problem has become more urgent. One focus of this infrastructure problem is bridges, which are growing weaker causing economic and social concerns. The primary controversy around these bridge failures is what is causing them and the potential they have to cause disasters. Moreover, this potential is why Americans should invest more into their infrastructure.

The report debates the Tacoma narrows bridge failure and the different theories of how it came about, using information about what type of bridge it is and the forces acting on it before and during the collapse. It also discusses ways in which the failure could have been avoided, from changes in the design to modifications to the bridge after its construction.

Citizens of America seek thrill and excitement. Whether this is in the form of concerts or snorkeling in the waters off the coast of Hawaii. However, others choose to go to the extreme and participate in the utmost endeavours. These thrill seekers may go through intense training before taking place in these activities. Accidents, although, do happen. Individuals cannot predict all that will transpire. People have a moral obligation to save others in need.

In Washington, the Interstate 5 bridge, which crossed the Skagit River, collapsed last month. The damage of this accident included two cars broke and three persons injured. According to officials, the bridge fell into the river after the large truck hit a beam. The bridge had a risky condition called facture critical. The U.S has a lot of bridges; however, nearly two thousand bridges were built between the middle of 1950s and the 1970s, so those ones are obsolete bridges. In addition, back then, the government cut corners in bridge buildings to cost reduction. Although gas and diesel taxes attempted to allocate to restored the bridge, the government cloud not collect money enough to repair the bridge because people began to use efficient vehicle.

While we do not have historical record of all of the natural hazards that have impacted the United States, we do know that for multitudes of years, the United States has been hit by many natural hazards – hurricane, tornado, drought, wildfire, flood and earthquake, to name a few. As each of these natural hazards occur, multiple issues arise – relative to the core components of emergency management: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. Yet, even with prior knowledge from years past and the destructive events that have occurred, we as a nation continue to struggle with natural hazards that more often than not become natural disasters. For too long it seems as if we have settled in to a rhythm of responding, attempting to recover, rebuilding and then repeating the cycle as another natural hazard strikes.

Hurricanes are among one of the most damaging forces of nature that exist in regards to a natural disaster occurring. Also, these tropical storms have potential wind speeds of over eighty miles per hour, and large amounts of rain. Hurricanes have the potential to demolish large amounts of territory. A number of safeguards have been taken long-ago, and also looking forward to the present time, even though you never really know what to expect from Mother Nature. While, some well-being measures have been taken into consideration not all precautions are reliable in regards to mother nature. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept into New Orleans, which is a city in the state of Louisiana, on the US Gulf Coast. New Orleans is a city known largely for its culture involving such things as Mardi Gras, Jazz, Art, and even the culinary dishes of exotic foods prepared just to name a few things. It is no secret that the city of New Orleans has faced adversity before when it comes to natural disasters. Furthermore it has been documented that during the past century hurricanes have flooded New Orleans at least five times: in 1915, 1940, 1947, and 1965. Consequently New Orleans has always been at risk, though due to its geographical location being that it is utterly bounded by mass amounts of water. Engineers created a system of levees and barricades with the hopes of trying to keep the city from flooding as they stretched levees and barricades along the Mississippi river, and

The following risk assessment research project will analyze the types of natural disasters that could affect the city of Toronto, how the season and weather patterns affect the risk of disaster in the area and the steps that have been taken to minimize disasters.

My group and I believe that the safest place in America is Las Vegas, New Mexico that is. New Mexico is one of the few states with few to no common natural disasters. We believe this because the only natural disaster in New Mexico is thunderstorms. Thunderstorms occur almost anywhere, they are made by updrafts which is made with warm air rising. Las Vegas is free of hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquake and only has one natural disaster that is common, thunderstorms.

The American natural disaster Hurricane Katrina is likely to be the most actively blamed associated disaster in the United States. Although the question remains who is to receive the blame – for the deaths and failures of appropriated emergency response and aid, I believe to place the blame on one party over another is dismissive due to sundry factors requiring attention. This is not to say, however, that FEMA or the national or state and local governments are not at all to blame for this tragedy -- as they were all responders to the situation, but how yellow journalism was utilized – by journalists – to provide false and inaccurate statements regarding Hurricane Katrina.

Earth is a constant changing planet home to the human-race. As Humans we’ve always constructed absurd conspiracy theories that evidently change society. Currently, as a resident of the United States of America, I’m faced with a numerous amount of dynamic news. Unfortunately, this present news isn’t satisfying but rather frightening due to the devastation that may potentially occur. Presently, in North America we’re struck with harsh hurricanes, fat fires, deliberate division, and enthusiastic earthquakes. Hurricanes are enormous spiral-like storms that construct themselves in the ocean, and later remain stationary or venture to land. From Harvey to Irma, each and every single hurricane is causing devastation in it’s own path. Out in the

Natural hazards have long been something that American have become desensitized to over the years. The reason for this desensitization is largely due to the predictability and immediate response to these disasters. We recognize the parameters of these forces and have developed ways to counteract them. This provides the American people a form of calm assessment when it comes to a natural hazard.

Most societal problems can be easy to identify such as a rise in crime or the effects of a natural disaster such as an earthquake. There is a natural disaster that is currently facing the state of California in particular which is much harder to overcome – the drought. According to state government officials, California is experiencing one of the driest decades in recorded history and the drought is so severe that the governor, Jerry Brown, declared a state of emergency in 2014 because of it. Since the state of emergency, governor issued the first regulatory policy through Executive Order B-29-15 on April 1st 2015 to fight the drought. A drought is unique in that it is very hard to determine when the problem actually started and when it is expected to end since periods of wet weather are almost impossible to know for sure. Therefore, policy to fight the drought can be very tricky seeing that officials really don’t know when the problem will end and therefore, how much to spend in time and resources to combat it now. This isn’t the first drought California experiences and therefore there are certainly lessons that can be learned from the past and from other countries that have experienced severe droughts (Saharan Africa and Australia). However, in terms of assessing drought policy, this paper will strictly focus on analyzing the development, implementation, and outcomes of Executive Order B-29-15 following the assumption of Leslie Pal (2014, p. 97) who states that “the core

Learning and understanding the definition on what is a natural disaster it’s a major concern for every human being. A natural disaster is a major event caused by nature or natural processes of our planet Earth. The cruelty and severity of the accident is and will be measured on how many lives are lost, how much damaged they get from the disaster, the economic catastrophe and loss taken by the population, and how long will it take the population to rebuilt everything back again.

Natural disasters cause damage to societies and libraries. Earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis and tornadoes can cause irreversible damage to library infrastructure and most importantly the collection. Since natural disasters cannot be fully controlled or stop, they can destroy or caused serious damage to any nation’s intellectual heritage. Hence, library managers must put in place measures to mitigate the impact of natural disasters. Besides loss of life, infrastructure destruction is by far the most obvious type of damage that comes to mind when we think about natural disasters. But there are other implications for a country’s cultural heritage, economy, as well