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responders should monitor channels for distress calls and coordinate efforts with a crisis command post. All inflow of private vehicles should be restricted on a regional basis by state highway patrol on major interstates as well as law enforcement on local roadways. Although state DOTs are not directly responsible for patrolling state-owned infrastructure, “DOTs do have the responsibility for controlling access to critical components, establishing coordination with law enforcement to ensure…

Posttraumatic stress disorder is a crazy thing. Anyone can end up with PTSD at any given moment of time, and it is all because they had to go through something tragic and traumatic. A soldier goes to war with a healthy state of mind and comes home with a disorder. A little girl is raped, and now she must live in a constant fear of men and she goes through all the effects of rape. Every case of PTSD is sad and deserves help, for example the issues Haiti is having right now. In 2010, Haiti had an…

In South Florida, refugees are being pushed away from South Florida due to a hurricane which is destroying their homes and are being pulled toward Georgia because they have the resources, shelter, and safety they need. On August 30,2017- September 15,2017 there was a category 4 hurricane that was 80 miles wide and had 155 miles per hour winds that hit South Florida. There was major flooding, homes were being destroyed as well as their land, and people were even dieing. This is causing the…

Natural disasters come in all shapes and forms. Some are small and some quite large and very effective. One of the strongest natural disaster that attacked the United states was hurricane Katrina. In August of 2005 a very strong and effective natural disaster touched the grounds of New Orleans. The storm caused winds 100+ mph, flooding, and deaths. The storm affected the lives of many individuals who lived in New Orleans. 80% of the people who lived in the city managed to escape but the…

Racism in New Orleans, Louisiana has historically been reflected in settlement patterns throughout the city, dating back to its founding in the early 1700’s. The first settlers favored well-drained uplands and shunned the swamps and marshes as dangerous, instead relegating African American slaves and native Creole people to these areas. Post-civil war, these settlement patterns were only exaggerated as the racial geography of the city shifted toward what is now considered a “classic southern”…

In the United States hurricanes mainly start near the Atlantic Coast (Hurricane Harvey Recap). The most active period runs about mid-August through the end of October (Hurricane Harvey Recap). For Atlantic hurricanes, there is six lists that rotate is six lists that rotate every six years (Hurricane Harvey Recap). For example, the 2011 is used in 2017. On August 17th, the World Meteorological Organization named a category four tropical storm Harvey. The meaning of the name Harvey is “battle-…

RESOLUTION WHEREAS, inclement weather forecasts, severe flooding and dangerous conditions in and around the greater Houston area resulted in the closure of all schools and facilities in the Houston Independent School District ("HISD" or “district”) on April 18, 2016 and April 19, 2016 to protect the safety of students and staff; and WHEREAS, HISD closed its schools and facilities because it must act in the best interests of, and to protect the safety of, its students and staff; and WHEREAS, in…

Most recently in August of this year, 2017, Hurricane Harvey devastated the coastal cities of South Texas from Port Aransas to the Houston/Galveston area. Many people lost their homes, vehicles and some lost their lives. Harvey started as a tropical storm that was slowly making its way through the Gulf until just hours prior to making landfall at a Category four hurricane. Many were taken by surprise when the storm became as threatening as it did, and many were ill prepared in regards to food,…

S., Katrina affected over ninety thousand people in the U.S. . . . In Louisiana there were one thousand four hundred and sixty four deaths , in Mississippi two hundred and eighty three deaths , fourteen deaths in Florida and two deaths in Georgia . After getting the death toll of over all there were two hundred unclaimed bodies and in Louisiana in August 8, 2006 there were still one hundred thirty five bodies missing. Louisiana had studied the deaths and noticed a seventy one percent of the…

catastrophic.” (“Hurricane” 1) Homes that had stretched from Louisiana to Mississippi to Alabama had been demolished by this cataclysmic storm. When atrocious events like this one occur, society's dependence on the government increases yet the government is not always going to be able to respond as fast as needed. As an effect of this inimical…