Mississippi counties

are dealing with it in days here,'' Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen told the Associated Press. Authorities have opened shelters in some coastal counties, and health officials warned people not to swim or play in the flood waters. As South Carolina residents braced to ride out the storm, up to 500 residents were evacuated in coastal Brunswick County, North Carolina, the state's governor told CNN. Flood and flash flood watches are posted from Georgia to Delaware through Sunday. But the…

Storm surge breached the levees of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal in approximately 20 places. The major levee breaches in the city included breaches at the 17th Street Canal levee, the London Avenue Canal, and the wide, navigable Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, which left approximately 80%…

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…

Natural disasters, such as hurricanes affect millions of people each year, but thanks to organizations such as FEMA, the people who are affected don't have to go through the rebuilding process alone. This past week one of the most powerful hurricanes hit the gulf coast with another one following not too far behind. Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma have done billions of dollars of damage to homes and business all throughout the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas. FEMA not only faces an immense…

Danny Glover once stated, “When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf and the floodwaters rose and tore through New Orleans, it did not turn the region into a Third World country…it revealed one” (Glover). In the wake of this darkness, Hurricane Katrina proved to America that as a nation, there was no way to prepare for a disaster of this size. As the winds raged on and the waters crashed against the coast, ultimately drowning out around 80% of the state, Hurricane Katrina proved to be more than…

The title of the documentary I watched is “Klansville U.S.A” it was made January 13th 2015, based off a section of David Cunningham’s book that has the same title. I believe this films overall thesis is illustrating what the Klu Klux Klan was like, and all of its values. The film portrayed its thesis by looking into the largest sector of the Klan and how it operated under Bob Jones the group’s first “Grand Dragon.” The filmmaker’s agenda seemed to include mainly covering the history of the clan…

According to Schneider (2008), in the early stage of the Hurricane Katrina, it seems that all public officials at all levels of government have a fairly clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities in the process of emergency operations. However, the bottom-up process still collapsed immediately. Public officials at local government (1st responders) were shocked by the magnitude of the hurricanes and were unable to fulfill their obligation. Therefore, it prevents the process and…

Although Oprah Winfrey struggled as a child that did not stop her from what she does today.Oprah winfrey was born January 29, 1945 in Kosciusko, Mississippi.Oprah did not grow up with her mother and father at first. Oprah winfrey grew up with a rough childhood. Her parents abandoned her, and just left her with her grandmother. Oprah’s mother left her when she was 4 years old and moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin so Opah stayed with her grandmother. Oprah was raised very religiously because of her…

Pamela Puchalski is one author who believes that the government failed its people during the Flint Water Crisis, as she describes in her article “A Functioning Government Could Have Prevented the Flint Crisis” (2017). She attributes the poisoning of Flint residents to the incompetence of government officials at both the city and state level. Puchalski outlines the five different ways in which the government failed the people. First, she says, they made decisions based on what would be quick and…

Although the DHH, CMS, and JACHO, FEMA and guide Louisiana hospital emergency preparedness plans, before hurricane Katrina, many of these regulations were more apt to handle an influx of patients, potential chemical warfare, or an armed intruder. These state and federal programs were not prepared to handle the extreme conditions and restricted communication dealt by the levee breaches. In fact many health systems were more prepared for a volcanic eruption than the flash flooding that occurred…