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    September 10, the 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…

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    what FEMA did to prepare. You can never be too prepared for something, especially if it is an ever-changing hurricane approaching your hometown. Preparations are definitely necessary to keep people safe in the event their lives become at risk and evacuations have to occur. I would also increase FEMA’s budget to help recover and to start getting people back on their feet, who were impacted the worst and have nothing…

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    FEMA Executive Summary

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    The state of Arizona falls under the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Region IX, which encompasses California, Hawaii, and Nevada as well as the United States territories of American Samoa and Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The regional office is located in Los Angeles, California and is headed by Robert J. Fenton, Jr. Mr. Fenton assumed the role as Regional Administrator in July 2015, following his…

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    Last night there was a huge storm. It tore through Alabama. Destroying everything in its path. Houses, businesses and farms. Wait!! Woah! Woah! Woah! Let me start over. March 19, 2018 The day of the storm This morning I woke up, to the sound of an alarm. I got up and turned my alarm of on my phone. The smell of breakfast wafted through my dorm, my roommate Journey must have got breakfast. Sure enough on our table was two plates…

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    The article The New Deal explains that in 1933 the FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Administration) was created and gave $3 billion to states for work relief programs (352) This was a very large amount of money that went to programs other than going to people that really needed the money. Digging In also claims that instead…

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    No Firemen Invited On the 10th anniversary of 9/11 at Ground Zero, many people, families, and even politicians were invited to remember the ones lost on that devastating day. But a group of the most important people on that day weren't. Firemen and first responders were not invited to the anniversary at Ground Zero because there “was not enough room for them” (Burke) according to the New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Instead they were sent to an off site location to watch the anniversary…

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    I enjoyed how Sheri Fink wrote this book during the first half the reader gets a front row experience of being at Memorial Medical during hurricane Katrina and traumatic days that followed while the second half consists of the investigation against a doctor and two nurses for murdering patients. The prose is exceptional, it is very well researched with a big section of notes, it includes an index if for any reason you need to reference anything, there is a helpful list of selected individuals at…

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    My life was changed forever when I decided to go with a group from my church on a mission trip to host a bible school in Croix des Bouquets, Haiti. I had been warned prior to going that it would change my life in a drastic way, but no one could have prepared me for the amount of brokenness and heartbreak I would witness. Flying into Port au Prince, even from the air I could see that the homes were dilapidated, and the ones that weren’t, were pretty close to falling apart. I could see trash and…

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    Hurricane Matthew has been a very severe weather event. Hurricane Matthew started on September 28th, 2016 through October 10th, 2016. Lasting a total of thirteen days. The reason that Hurricane Matthew became such a major event is because it traveled a really long path, and how many people lost their lives because of this hurricane. There were a total of 1,384 deaths caused by Hurricane Matthew. This hurricane occurred from the Caribbean to Cape Hatteras. It went through many places. Such as,…

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    the number of people seeking mental health care increased drastically, yet the number of providers to treat them dropped (Manuel, 2013). Of the most affected hospitals, Beth Israel in lower Manhattan, recorded a 69 percent increase in psychiatric emergency room patients (Bernstein, 2012). Dr. Andrew Kolodny, the chairman of psychiatry at Maimonides Medical Center remarked: Triage has reached a different level: You have to get sicker to get in. Not only is there decreased capacity, there’s…

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