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In storm emergency situations, having a roof over your head is more than just a figure of speech! Fortunately, there are instant solutions for storm damaged roofs in Newport. Storms and tornadoes Global warming cannot be ignored. It leaves tangible evidence of its existence, not only in warmer summers, but also in the unpredictable, extreme weather which has been experienced lately in South Wales. The UK suffers about sixty tornadoes, or 'mini-tornadoes', a year, according to the Met Office,…

figuring out that moving back was no longer an option she decided to move back to New Iberia. New Iberia was her hometown and she knew she had a large support system to help her figure out how to get back on her feet. She and her husband no longer had any jobs to back to, and everything was a new beginning. She found herself at the age of 30 back at zero trying to figure out how their family would survive. Coming back to New Iberia was a shocker. It was one of the places she told herself she…

In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ten inches of rain fell. One major concern of all the rain was the Cedar River. Thousands of people had to evacuate because of the river flooding at twenty-two feet. City workers, contractors, volunteers and National Guard troops built temporary walls, levees and they laid down 250,000 sandbags to try and prevent any major flooding. The temporary barriers that were put up seemed to prevent major flooding, but the people who live around there are still being advised to stay…

There were many things that surprised me when watching the film. I was surprised that for being a city under sea level, and for being a place that has a high risk of hurricanes that there was no plan for a catastrophic event like Hurricane Katrina. Another thing that surprised me was the amount of time it took the Federal Government to come and send help to those affected by the storm. All of the dead bodies, all of the people that were struggling to find a way to survive, and the destruction…

ezilla, Michael. "Blues and Gospel Recording Artists from 1920s Left Imprint on Today's Music | Penn State University." PSU. Penn State University, 12 Nov. 2013. Web. 13 Mar. 2016. This article describes how blues and gospel artists from the 1920s influenced today's music greatly. It touches on the fact that blues is one of jazzs greatest influence. It summarizes what blues is, and the aspects of blues that have found their way into the seams of jazz. The article…

Incident command was established at the Lutts Volunteer Fire Department, and it was here that chiefs of multiple volunteer fire departments came together to begin recovery efforts. Wayne County has no paid fire departments, minimal city and county police officers and limited EMS staff due to the large amount of farm and logging land and low population. Therefore, the vast majority of individuals responding…

Music has always been world music, it’s not just old concert pieces from dead men of the past. Here we like to think of world music as music from outside the United States, but in other countries we become the other people, we become the world music to them or at least part of it. My dad when I was growing up listened to a lot of jazz. He grew up in south Louisiana, moved to north Louisiana and then finally moved to Texas, so he grew up in a culture of jazz. We always had some kind of it playing…

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…

neighborhoods in New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina, many neighborhoods were destroyed or badly damaged. This not only affected the ability for people to live there, but also the ability for many stores to stay in business. According to popular economic theory, firms will only enter a market if they believe they can make an economic profit. After Katrina, with many consumers either relocating or not having enough money to regularly shop at supermarkets and grocery stores, new food stores…

A tropical wave developed into Tropical Storm Matthew near Barbados on September 28. Continuing westward under the influence of a mid-level ridge, the storm steadily intensified to attain hurricane intensity by 18:00 UTC on September 29. The effects of southwesterly wind shear unexpectedly abated late that day, and Matthew began a period of rapid intensification; during a 24-hour period beginning at 00:00 UTC on September 30, the cyclone's maximum winds more than doubled, from 80 mph (130 km/h)…