The Hurricane

Schoharie Creek Bridge Disaster Introduction On April 5, 1987, one of the largest flood on record hit Fort Hunter, New York. More specifically, this flood hit the Schoharie Creek Bridge, a New York State Thruway connecting Albany to New York City. This flood had caused one hundred feet of the bridge to collapse, as cars were crossing the bridge in attempt to escape the storm. As the storm collapsed it immediately took two vehicles with it, and 3 more cars followed. There were ten casualties.…

The Federal response process to a disaster can be started in three different ways. One way is for the governor of the affected state to present a formal request for federal assistance. Another way for federal response if a federal entity was damaged which the president can declare a presidential emergency. The third one is the newest form for federal assistance to be request, which the president can start the pre-deployment process of resources for in anticipation of disaster. In this situation…

a. A hurricane that destroys half the supply of goods produced in Florida. Disasters increase the scarcity but they don’t reduce the ability of these markets to be able to respond to the scarcity. When a Hurricane strikes and destroys the supply of goods produced in Florida, the market will respond by decentralized communication of dispersed knowledge, eliminating the problems associated with centralized collection and analysis of massive amounts of rapidly changing information. This can be…

Hurricane preparedness is a topic that community nurses should be ready to educate communities on, especially those residing in geographic locations at greatest risk. People living in the nation’s coastal communities, particularly those along the Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions, are at highest risk. In an nutshell, hurricanes are large tropical storms that form over warm ocean waters. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane once its winds reach seventy-four miles per hour. Thankfully, unlike…

Ohio River flood disaster of 1937 is significant because it is considered to be the first time that the United States Coast Guard responded to a natural disaster to help aide. When we think about today’s more recent disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Sandy the Coast Guard always seems to be prevalent and often times in command of the recovery efforts. The Ohio River flood is considered to have set the precedence for this response, which is some vitally important to our response…

American writer, Dave Eggers, in his nonfiction book, “Zeitoun,” delineates the treatment and the circumstances a Syrian man named Abdulrahman Zeitoun goes through during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, in the year 2005. Egger’s purpose is to spread awareness on how Islamophobia affected the way one with a racial background was treated than one who did not. Egger covey’s this idea through Zeitoun by telling the readers about how Zeitoun was captured standing in his own home. He adopts an…

to sea level. Also, the combination of global sea level rise and local subsidence has led to a higher change in sea level at the local level. Additionally, Gulfport has experience extreme hurricanes and storm surges. Hurricanes gain strength over warm ocean waters. As the ocean surface continues to warm, hurricane intensity will likely continue to increase and sea level rise along the Gulfport’s coast is likely to erode wetlands and coastal shorelines. The area will be flooded more frequently…

It was a difficult week not able to know what’s going on around you. To not be able to go anywhere only to stay in your house. Always thinking “why us?” why did this happen to us. During Hurricane Harvey, my family and I felt the constant feelings of being lucky, worried, and trapped. During that week, my family and I were lucky that we didn’t get flooded because of the ditches on our street. Even though it was raining hard where we lived the ditches hold as much of the water it could. Our…

Oh, I can’t believe I found you. So much has happened in these last two days. When I woke up after finishing my entry a couple days ago I found that the entire bookstore was no longer there! That “storm” was actually a huge hurricane. Tons of people died and they say it’s going to be millions in property damage. Our house miraculously is still standing, Sally and Sarah are both okay. Jamie got a big starch across his back from a falling plank but it’s nothing serious. So much death… The bodies…

traffic control during a maritime barge incident on the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The barge broke loose from its moorings and struck another object, causing a chemical known as benzene to leak. Also, I was assigned security during Hurricane Georges to aid in the influx of evacuees at a neighborhood school converted into an emergency shelter and point of distribution (POD). Not only was I trained in law enforcement, emergency management and incident response as a uniform…