Emergency evacuation

Six years ago, my family and community were devastated by the uncut strength of mother nature. Superstorm Sandy, the storm of the century, decimated a large part of the Northeast Coast. My home was lucky enough to be a raised ranch where the main part of our home was on the second floor. But because I live less than a mile from the ocean, we were slammed with twelve feet of storm surge. It was enough to flood my entire basement with six feet of saltwater and was just one step away from…

John Hyde was a 30-year old man from Colorado where his parents owned a farm. He had just taken his dream vacation to south Florida. He said, “This is a big change from what I’m used to in Colorado, but I think I can get used to this.” After the trip John was feeling down about the fact that he had to leave. One month later, John decided to do something about that. He called his real estate agent and John asked him to help look for houses in south Florida. In July, John found a house right…

Clara Barton founded the most recognized relief agency in the United States in 1881 known as the American Red Cross. The non-profit organization has faced numerous issued concerning ethics plus mismanagement during our country’s most recent disasters. The September 11th attacks led to the ousting of their acting president Bernadine Healy. The ARC received $543 million in donations to the victims as well as their families. Donors had pledged with the intent of their money going directly to the…

Hurricane Irma caused mass destruction to the state of Florida. It caused stress, anxiety, and fatigue preparing for the storm and then waiting the storm out. Even after the storm was gone people were left having to clean up the mess and pull themselves back together. Homes and vehicles were ruined, personal belongings were damaged, and some of these things could have been avoided. Many homes were flooded from rising creeks or oceans, but some homes were flooded from plumbing mishaps. Even if…

Wave pools are fun, but imagine ginormous waves pouncing on to your city. People who live in tropical areas are more likely to be affected by a hurricane. When the water is warm hurricanes may form and use the water as an energy source. Hurricane Katrina included many details common to hurricanes, and caused damage and destruction to property and lives that affected the region, but the area has started to recover in its aftermath. There are many things people don’t know about hurricanes, here…

It all started on a Saturday morning in West Esplanade, Shareba Teno, was lying in bed. Suddenly, she is jolted out of her bed by her husband bursting out for her to pack as they must evacuate. There were warning alerts all over the television, Hurricane Katrina was coming and it had a poweful for behind it. It was on August 29, 2005 hat Hurricane Katrina hit. To everyone's surprise it made history as a category five hurricane. The storm was so powerful the levees were unable to hold the surge…

It was the morning of October 29 th, 2013 and we had been hearing about Hurricane Sandy coming to plaster the east coast with crazy sized rain and ridiculous storm clouds. Everyone was preparing to bunker down for the storm. People were evacuating their homes in hoping to return to them unharmed and safe to live in. But what most found when they returned, shocked everyone. People expected everything to be fine like the last hurricane but Sandy was the complete opposite. When the people who were…

In light of recent events down in South Carolina it has been brought to my attention that we have a serious problem and that problem is, flooding. Now there is absolutely no excuse for flooding, it can and should be prevented. It’s not like an earthquake, where you have no warning and it’s not like a tornado where it swoops down and suddenly destroys everything. A flood has a warning, sometimes weeks in advance. It starts out slow and builds but don’t let that fool you. Water is patient and it…

roles and responsibilities or how the entire inter-governmental response system should operate” (Schneider, 2008). He also mentioned that it was the “mismatching of what various levels of government expected to do and what they actual do in any emergency situation” are the main contributors to this problem. As simplified by Walters and Kettl (2005), it was the problems of “poor coordination and communication” between levels of government were evident in the Hurricane Katrina events. Schneider…

This poster will show Hurricane Andrew’s track, NOAA’s satellite image, and the National Hurricane Center’s last radar image of the strongest hurricane in 30 years to hit the state of Florida. Hurricane Andrew made landfall during the early morning hours along the southeastern tip of Florida at the city of Homestead on August 24, 1992. Classified as a Category 5 Hurricane, Andrew changed the face of South Florida forever; the area looked like it had been hit with a nuclear weapon. Hurricane…