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    Two of the United States worst natural disasters in money lost and life lost has been form hurricanes. The to hurricanes that steps up from the rest have been hurricane Sandy in 2012 that hit the northern east coast and hurricane Katrina that hit the southern east coast in 2005. A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that is rotating low pressure system that has organized thunder storms with no front boundary separating two air masses of different densities. Tropical cyclones with sustained surface…

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    Puerto Rico Hurricanes

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    category five hurricane, Maria, made direct landfall on Puerto Rico, and the way the country prepared for the storm was a complete failure. Puerto Rico is a poor country. For the United States to think that Puerto Rico can hold to the same standards as states like Texas and Florida is foolish; plans should have been put in place accordingly to the island. Because the country is impoverished, Puerto Rico’s infrastructure was neglected to begin with, and the devastation from the hurricane now…

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    Hurricane Observation

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    Aircrafts for Hurricane Observation and Hurricane Hunters One significant advancement towards studying hurricanes was the use of aircrafts. Post World War I, the use of aircrafts boomed and meteorologists found a use for them- to study hurricanes. The first recorded intentional flight into the eye of a hurricane was completed by Colonel Joseph Duckworth on July 27, 1943. During that day, he made two flights from Galveston, Texas. From that day on, he began one of the US Air Force’s largest,…

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    Hurricane Betsy was a powerful hurricane of the 1965 Atlantic hurricane season, causing enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida and Louisiana. While it made its first landfall at Key Largo in Florida, Betsy did its greatest damage after the second landfall on September 9 near the mouth of the Mississippi River, causing significant flooding of the waters of Lake Pontchartrain into New Orleans. Seventy-six people were killed by “Billion-Dollar Betsy” but I survived. Izzy Hannah is my name and I…

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    El-Nino Case Study

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    weather changes, flood, hurricane and many more due to the climate change. Yet, global population continue to grow. The increase in demand for food is inevitable. Global warming is indeed a very big impact on the earth's atmosphere. Extreme heat causes drought phenomenon occurs frequently and longer. In addition to the drought phenomenon, an incident that sparked the global warming phenomenon is the creation of the El -Nino.…

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    Global Warming Global warming is changing the environment of Earth on a global scale. The world is continuing to get warmer and because there are many ramifications which can occur and the world must n. Due to many consequences which have ensued on Earth from the ozone layer depletion, to the melting polar ice caps, and the poles switching global warming has become more of a problem. Global warming, as a result of these human activities, can have many large-scale consequences. The earth 's…

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    GEOG 306 Literature Review

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    (2015). Social media and crisis management: CERC, search strategies, and twitter content. Computers in Human Behavior, doi:10.1016. Makela, A., Shrestha, R., & Karki, R. (2014). Thunderstorm characteristics in Nepal during the pre-monsoon season 2012. 137, 91-99. Retrieved July 4, 2015, from http://journals2.scholarsportal.info.proxy.lib.uwaterloo.ca/pdf/01698095/v137icomple te/91_tcindtps2.xml Mileti, D. and H. Sorensen. (1987) “Natural Hazards and Precautionary Behavior.”…

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    Warming is an increase in the earth 's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution. The Earth 's temperature is rising every year, between 1906 and 2005 the temperature rose 1.1 degrees to 1.6 degrees and has doubled in the last 50 years. The greenhouse gases are needed for human life on this earth, global warming is slowly taking out these gases and hurting the planet and the the human and…

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    Case Study Apollo Shoes Case

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    |Initials |Comments | | |Objectives | | | | |Discuss the type, scope, and timing of the audit with the owner/manager, board | | | | | |of directors or, if applicable, the audit committee. Also, discuss adequacy of| | | |…

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