Hurricane Risk

Over the past decade, the world has experienced more natural disaster than people can count. Floods, mudslides, earthquakes, and raging fires are just a few of the events that have stripped people away from their families, homes, and possessions. The deadliest of these natural disasters are hurricanes. Extremely strong winds mixed with large waves can cause enormous damage, taking months, even years for towns to recover. Hurricane Katrina left millions of people without homes and families torn apart. Hurricane Sandy demolished the Jersey coast, leaving years of repair work behind. The most recent and powerful hurricane that surfaced is Hurricane Maria. A level five hurricane, Hurricane Maria ripped straight through the United States territory of Puerto Rico. The island lost power, supplies

In the wake of Hurricane Maria that struck Puerto Rico, the mayor of San Juan has accused President Trump of not providing sufficient relief efforts to the U.S island. On Saturday September 30, Trump sent a series of tweets saying that, "The mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump. Such poor leadership ability by the mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job."

After Hurricane Sandy there was a bunch of damage done to theses states : Jamaica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, and the U.S. (“Superstorm Sandy”). “The hurricane left an estimated 200,000 people without shelter” (“Superstorm Sandy”). The property damage was an estimate from between $30-$50 billion (“Superstorm Sandy’’). Many people had no home for a long time nothing to come home to or

Hurricane Maria is now known as the most disaster inflicting natural event on record to ever hit Dominica this cause serious damage to the Puerto Rican towns, cities, and their economy. Many American citizens have been asking “how can I help” and many people in our area have been volunteering to collect items for victims of the storm and some have even gone to the island to help firsthand.

On August 29th, 2005 Hurricane Katrina caused catastrophic damage and flooding in Mississippi, Louisiana, New Orleans and areas in between. It destructed the lives and homes of thousands of people, with a total of 1,883 fatalities (Hurricane Katrina Statistics Fast Facts, 2015). Hurricane Katrina left many homeless and hospitals unprepared for the challenges posed to the healthcare system as a whole. Some of these challenges included gaining access to healthcare facilities, providing expedited care to those most in need, and preventing spread of disease that commonly occurs during natural disasters. Many facilities did not evacuate in time and many were left stranded in flooded waters as patients conditions worsened and access to essential medications and treatments became limited.

After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico last September, my family was without phone communication. We were with no television or radio for a few days. Hearing from our loved ones in the island was difficult. 7 days passed before I heard from any of my closest ones. Some of the people in Puerto Rico, even they lived in the same land, could not hear from each other because roads

Hurricane Katrina had many short-term and long-term impacts. One short-term effect caused by the massive destruction was significant loss of life. The total death toll is estimated to be 1,833, over 75 percent of the deaths occurred in Louisiana. According to CNN, approximately 40 percent of the deaths in Louisiana were caused by drowning, and 25 percent were caused by some type of injury or trauma. Another impact of the hurricane was the damage that it did to Louisiana’s infrastructure, 80 percent of New Orleans was underwater and many houses even floated off there foundation. Loss of electricity was a huge problem during and after the storm, with over 800,000 people without power, this lead to panic and

The island of Puerto Rico was met with destruction at the hands of Hurricane Maria. The storm was the strongest within United States territory in close to a century. Maria thrashed major parts of the Dominican Republic before making landfall on September 21st in Puerto Rico at 11:15 BST in the town of Yabucoa. It clocked in with 155mph winds and knocked out power to the entire nation. All 3.4 million residents were left in the dark.

Juliet ZhangURST 241Professor Anthony PratoMarch 7, 2018Hurricane katrinaThirteen years ago, the tropical cyclone that struck the southeastern United States,Hurricane Katrina, had a level three ranked on the hurricane scale. This storm killed nearly 2,000people and affected almost 90,000 square miles of the United States. The state of Louisianaevacuated approximately 1.5 million people before the storm made landfall. However, about150,000 to 200,000 individuals still remained during the storm (Hurricane Katrina). This tragedywas ranked as the costliest natural disaster in the U.S. history, because it took the governmentseveral days to notice the disaster and establish an operation. It was hard for people not to blamethe government for being

According to John Manuel, Sandy was accountable for an estimate of 234 deaths in 8 countries. The almost half the deaths, around 97, were reported around the New York metropolitan area. During the storm, buses and power were down, which made it almost impossible to continue going on after Sandy hit. The power was out for around 8.5 million days and even weeks after Sandy hit. Unfortunately, with the damage that Sandy has done on top of the loss of power, technology was failing. Not only were televisions and phones down, but heating systems and life support in hospitals were failing also. (Manuel, 2013). Sandy caused about an estimate of 346,000 homes damaged and cost about $65 billion in damages. In NYC alone, the cost was $19 billion and in New Jersey cost as around $30 billion in damages (Trento and Allen,

Hurricane Sandy ripped through fifteen eastern states leaving 7.9 million people without power. This hurricane made a mark on many people’s lives including the United States and around the Caribbean. Hurricane Sandy included many details common to hurricanes, and caused damage and destruction to property and lives the effected region but the area has recovered in its aftermath.

Answer: Property and casualty insurance protects property (houses, cars, boats, and so on) against losses due to accidents, fire, disasters, and other calamities. Property and casualty policies tend to be short-term contracts and, that’s why the subject to frequent renewal is, and one more characteristic feature is the absence of savings component. Property and casualty premiums are based on the probability of sustaining the loss. To estimate the key determinant of the price of an insurance policy, i.e. risks, insurance companies take third-party proceedings that develop models of catastrophe loss probabilities. Based on the numbers form Exhibit 5 of the case we see that

The problem in the Puerto Rico, at least the south, is that industries are located in the coast. Back in the days, they used the Caribbean as a disposal source for all the hazardous waste. Many of our south beaches are still contaminated from these old events during the industrialization era. The bad thing was that Hurricanes were also dispersing all the contaminants all over the place. The Metro area in San Juan has a lot of businesses, and man-made building. Yes a lot of flooding happens during hurricanes but is not because the sea is rising, is because of the mountains and water running down the watersheds. Thanks for your

The journal I read is called Mortality in Puerto Rico By Nishant Kishore, M.P.H., Domingo Marqués, Ph.D. It’s from the New England Journal of Medicine. The journal was about how natural disasters affect society and how hard recovery of public health services and infrastructure is. Apparently the death tolls of natural disasters can be difficult to assess in the aftermath of a major disaster. In September 2017, Hurricane Maria caused massive infrastructural damage to Puerto Rico, but its death toll is still unknown.To calculate the mortality in Puerto Rico, they surveyed 3299 randomly chosen households across Puerto Rico to produce an independent estimate of the death toll. Respondents were asked about displacement, infrastructure loss,

The storm damaged or destroyed at least 650,000 homes, and 8 million customers lost power. Although Sandy was a minimal hurricane, millions were affected across 5 Caribbean nations. In Puerto Rico, 100 persons were killed or reported missing. Estimated economic losses ranged from $5 million in Jamaica to $2 billion in Cuba. It was unfortunate to be in Cuba due to their economic situation being rather poor. According to a web article titled “What Are the Facts About Sandy's Damage and Economic Impact?” written by Kimberly Amadeo, Hurricane Sandy closed the New York Stock Exchange for the first time in 27 years since Hurricane Gloria. Even the electronic exchanges, based in New Jersey, were closed so as not to endanger the workers