Emergency Alert System

To become an Eagle Scout I had to plan and build a community service project, I built a storage shed/shelter in my local dog park, this project, combined with all my previous years in Boy Scouts have taught me the importance of serving one’s community in any way possible. That is part of the reason that I decided to join the Shelburne Volunteer Fire Department and use it as my Graduation Challenge, I wanted to learn skills that would help my community and that would serve me later in life if I…

Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). In Roosevelt 's Bombshell message, he took the US off the gold-standard and used his administration to focus mainly on domestic issues while excluding the handling of international trades. Also, the Federal Emergency Relief Act was issued giving five hundred million dollars to the state benefit programs. Some people believed Roosevelt’s action were too radical, and that this was not fixing the problems of the Depression, but…

for her own self interest, rather than the interests of the people she governed. Michael D. Brown, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), during Hurricane Katrina, was wholly unprepared for the disaster. After being appointed by President Bush, Brown had numerous failures during and after Hurricane Katrina. Brown had no background in emergency response, and FEMA had been merged into the newly created Department of Homeland Security, and had it 's funding cut in the…

the worst was over when the storm calmed down but the worst was yet to come. The response system to aid the survivors of Hurricane Katrina was very slow and we can thank FEMA for that. The people believed it was because they were mostly poor and from African descent. That did actually seem to be the case; it seemed to be because people with high positions cannot keep their promises. The communication system broke down only hours after hurricane Katrina occurred due to the city being unprepared…

Video Discussion Questions Behind the Scenes: “Our World Turned to Water” 1. Author Lauren Tarshis calls the flood in Louisiana “devastating.” What details in the first section of the video (0:10 to 0:48) help you understand how the flood was devastating? It was the first major disaster after hurricane sandy. 2. According to Tarshis, why is it important to share stories of people who have gone through difficult experiences? So that we an connect to thdm even though we are not living in…

Franklin Roosevelt was elected by a landslide because he pledged a New Deal for the American people who were facing an economic crisis of the likes they had not seen before. Roosevelt was sworn in on March 4th, 1933 (Norton, 2015.) The following day he implemented the first step of his New Deal, which sought to address the problems of the Great Depression by, helping the banks to become solvent again, encouraging competing companies to cooperate, and giving jobs to the unemployed. The banking…

I think the Johnstown, Pennsylvania flood of 1889 is the most significant flood (in U.S. history) because it was the first major disaster relief effort for the Red Cross. The Red Cross was formed in 1881 and was primarily a battlefield relief organization. Thus, the Johnstown flood was the first peacetime relief effort for the Red Cross. The news coverage of the flood helped establish the Red Cross as the agency we know today. The Red Cross, led by founder Clara Barton, arrived to Johnstown only…

Hurricane sandy was one of a natural disaster. It was the most destructive other than Katrina. Many meteorologist say that this was an unpredicted storm, which caused more damage. Sandy killed 285 people in total and 125 in the united states. But that is not as much as how many people katrina killed/injured. Some people were out of power for days and couldn’t get any resources like food and water because of Sandy. What happened first was a wave in the caribbean turned into a tropical storm…

In New Orleans Hurricane Katrina hits, from August 23, 2005 to August 31, 2005. This starts near the gulf coast of the United States and went to New Orleans. Information states that New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin told everyone to evacuate to the Super Bowl Dome for safety. Many people survived but their homes did not. But, this is just New Orleans there were other places that Hurricane Katrina hit. Sadly we won’t be focused on those places. Hurricane Katrina started as all the other hurricane but…

1938 the year of one of New England's worst hurricanes with huge waves and record-breaking winds. Many contributing factors such as the conditions and human error and how the impacts made the storm so powerful. Many people were left homeless, injured or in the worst cases, dead. All of this was a recipe for disaster. One of the major events that made the storm so powerful was the conditions. There were winds up to more than one hundred mph. People from the YouTube videos houses were falling…