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    Hurricane Sandy pummeled New York City with tumultuous wind, rain, and storm surge. The storm flooded thousands of homes along the coast, caused mass power outages that reduced the ability of the public to effectively communicate, inundated the roads with debris, and covered entire neighborhoods along the coast with sand. In order to effectively respond to the aftermath of the storm New York City brought together numerous agencies to assist. These agencies include: Department of Sanitation,…

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    still one more thing you need. A great hotel to make your vacation memorable, but since Grand Cayman is brushed or hit by a tropical storm or hurricane about once every 1.68 years and on average, a direct hit from a hurricane once every 5.3 years. However since a lot of people are paranoid, they will think that if they come that will be when the hurricane or tropical storm will hit, so what better than a hurricane safe hotel. Not only will more people come to our hotel because of the safety,…

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    It seems that you cannot watch television or turn on your computer without seeing floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, fires or terrorist attacks happening all across the world. These threats can take devastating tolls on communities. In everyday life you don’t think something like that can happen to you or your community. Just look at what happened in 1998, a category five hurricane devastated Central America. Within hours, minutes, and even seconds, everything a person has and knows…

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    referred to as water-spouts; a waterspout is just a weak tornado that forms over water. In some cases these water-spouts move into land and become dangerous and maybe even deadly. This molecular structure is known to be one of the most deadliest of storms. Most tornadoes are formed from thunderstorms. For a tornado to occur you need warm and moist air and also some…

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    Yesterday early Saturday morning a disaster struck, a tropical storm turned into a disaster. Starting from Texas coast, making landfall at 2:10am over Galveston Island, travelling north creating havoc destruction in its path. The storm struck the US as a 600-mile wide putting Hurricane Ike in category 2, causing floods, damage to cities and hitting areas still damaged by Hurricane Gustav and 2005’s Rita. Before moving to Hispaniola, Cayman Islands, Mississippi, Florida Keys, Cuba, Louisiana,…

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    dangerous storms and you might get caught with. To survive a hurricane your family will need a few containers to store food and water in. Each person will need a gallon of water everyday, Don’t forget pets! Use food that doesn’t need to be cold or warmed up, EX:Raw vegetables, salt, sugar,and bread. Also need an aid kit encase someone gets hurt or injured during the storm, Ex: bandages, hand sanitizers, cold packs, medication, and C.P.R breathing. Also, need bedding and clothing if the storm…

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    Hurricanes are a type of disaster that is frequently mentioned in data center disaster recovery (DR) planning . Many individuals are accomplished about tropical storms and the impacts they can have on your server farm. In the meantime, there are unlimited extends of North America that have never encountered a sea tempest and likely never will. So some people think of them as local concerns, restricted to the Caribbean, and the Gulf and East Coast states. In any case, it is vital to be arranged…

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    write a detailed book on this tragic event. The perfect storm is a true story of men against the sea as stated on the cover of the book. Before I even started reading the book, I thought to myself, how possibly there could be a perfect storm or good storm because no storm is ever good. Then I read the foreword, which gives us a little background of why the author wrote the book and he says, “ I had some misgivings about calling it The Perfect Storm, but in the end I decided that the intent was…

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    Oscar, saying goodbye to Hilda in Tallinn ferried to Sweden and boarded the ship Gripsholm in the port of Göteborg at the beginning of April, 1929 and set sail for the newly opened, and to become famous, Pier 21 of Halifax. On April 14, 1929 he officially became an immigrant to Canada and headed towards Winnipeg. The trip took 3 to 4 days via a locked wagon, sitting on wooden seats, for the 3300 km trip from Halifax to Winnipeg. Once there Oscar was placed in an immigrant barrack which was a…

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    torrential rain and storm surges which causes loss of human lives, destruction of livestock, fisheries, forests, agriculture, inundation of land and ponds…

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