1900 Galveston hurricane

day of the hurricane, is also a national holiday for British Honduras, on which many locals gather in the streets to celebrate the defeat of Spanish conquerors by the British in 1798.[6] It is widely believed that the hurricane struck without any warning, although some recent historians have disputed this. In his column for The Belize Times on September 5, 2004, Emory King claimed that Belizean authorities withheld continuous warnings from U.S. ships in the region of a possible hurricane strike…

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge. It is located in San Francisco, California, and connects to Marin County, California. To San Francisco, it’s one of the most known symbols. The construction began January 25, 1933, ended April 19, 1837 and opened May 27, 1937 which lasted for one week. The whole project cost more than 35 million dollars. Many people argued that the bridge couldn’t be built across a 6700 ft. strait, which had swirling tides and currents with 372 ft of water deep, at…

Natural disasters, such as hurricanes affect millions of people each year, but thanks to organizations such as FEMA, the people who are affected don't have to go through the rebuilding process alone. This past week one of the most powerful hurricanes hit the gulf coast with another one following not too far behind. Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma have done billions of dollars of damage to homes and business all throughout the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas. FEMA not only faces an immense…

Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi occurred in Australia on the 3rd of February 2011. It reached a marginal Category 5. The lowest air pressure was recorded at Tully Sugar Mill at 929 hPa. The heaviest rainfall was recorded at South Mission beach at 471 mm. The highest tidal surge was recorded at Cardwell of an approximate height of 5m. Yasi had a maximum wind gust of 285 km/h, and had a maximum sustained wind gust of 205 km/h. Cyclone Yasi began developing as a tropical low northwest of Fiji on the…

Smith Hill sounds like many small American towns with the population under a few thousand. I grew up in a small town in VA, but I never heard of any issues with the emergency management. One of the biggest threats that we faced was from the flooding of the nearby river. It seems every few years flooding would occur. When I was a teenager there was major flooding from days of heavy rainfall and it just about devastated the town. Some businesses decided that enough was enough and closed up…

Danny Glover once stated, “When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf and the floodwaters rose and tore through New Orleans, it did not turn the region into a Third World country…it revealed one” (Glover). In the wake of this darkness, Hurricane Katrina proved to America that as a nation, there was no way to prepare for a disaster of this size. As the winds raged on and the waters crashed against the coast, ultimately drowning out around 80% of the state, Hurricane Katrina proved to be more than…

Back in 1957, meteorologists and citizens did not have the technology we have today to track hurricanes. Everyone knew there was a storm arriving, but people were not expecting it to come until the following afternoon. Hurricane Audrey developed from a tropical wave that moved across the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea during June 1957. The system began deepening over the Gulf of Mexico during on June 24, 1957. On June 25 at 06 GMT, the tropical storm was located at 21.6 Latitude, 93.3…

According to Schneider (2008), in the early stage of the Hurricane Katrina, it seems that all public officials at all levels of government have a fairly clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities in the process of emergency operations. However, the bottom-up process still collapsed immediately. Public officials at local government (1st responders) were shocked by the magnitude of the hurricanes and were unable to fulfill their obligation. Therefore, it prevents the process and…

The article “How to Survive a Disaster” was written by Amanda Ripley who is a senior writer at TIME. Throughout the article she describes different ways on how we as people should be more prepared to surviving disasters. She gives us techniques on how we should act and what we should do if we are unfortunately stuck in the middle of a disaster. She also tells us others people experiences on how they were when they had to deal with a natural disaster. She begins the article on telling us how we…

Pamela Puchalski is one author who believes that the government failed its people during the Flint Water Crisis, as she describes in her article “A Functioning Government Could Have Prevented the Flint Crisis” (2017). She attributes the poisoning of Flint residents to the incompetence of government officials at both the city and state level. Puchalski outlines the five different ways in which the government failed the people. First, she says, they made decisions based on what would be quick and…