Tropical cyclone

Survivalists are individuals who go above and beyond to plan for a secure future in the event of disaster. When most people think of survivalists, or preppers, they automatically associate the group with the negative stigma that accompanies the history. “You can bet Ted Nugent’s crossbow that, for most people, the term “survivalists”—or the more polite “preppers”—conjures images of tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists holed up in Montana hoarding canned pinto beans and assault weapons” (O’…

Likely the greatest hazard to the greater Spokane, Washington area is wildfire. While the risk to human life is low a wildfires economic cost and the risk of property force this hazard high on the Hazard Vulnerability Analysis’s impact category. The Spokane area is comprised several diverse ecosystems all with different fuels, terrain and weather all impacting the occurrence of fire and the characteristics of a wildfire. Additionally Spokane and the surrounding areas all possess a heavy buildup…

If you live in a hurricane prone area, such as Southwest Florida, you must know the importance of protecting your house during storm and hurricane. When thinking about ways of protecting the property from hurricanes, most people think about hurricane doors. Many people forget the role played by windows in protecting their home from these natural calamities. Impact resistant doors and windows protect your residential and commercial property from storms and hurricanes. Also, known as storm…

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…

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge. It is located in San Francisco, California, and connects to Marin County, California. To San Francisco, it’s one of the most known symbols. The construction began January 25, 1933, ended April 19, 1837 and opened May 27, 1937 which lasted for one week. The whole project cost more than 35 million dollars. Many people argued that the bridge couldn’t be built across a 6700 ft. strait, which had swirling tides and currents with 372 ft of water deep, at…

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…

Smith Hill sounds like many small American towns with the population under a few thousand. I grew up in a small town in VA, but I never heard of any issues with the emergency management. One of the biggest threats that we faced was from the flooding of the nearby river. It seems every few years flooding would occur. When I was a teenager there was major flooding from days of heavy rainfall and it just about devastated the town. Some businesses decided that enough was enough and closed up…

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…

hurricanes. Everyone knew there was a storm arriving, but people were not expecting it to come until the following afternoon. Hurricane Audrey developed from a tropical wave that moved across the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea during June 1957. The system began deepening over the Gulf of Mexico during on June 24, 1957. On June 25 at 06 GMT, the tropical storm was located at 21.6 Latitude, 93.3 longitude with wind speeds up to 70 mph. On June 25, the storm stopped over the southwestern Gulf and…

Wind is a fact of life here on the plains. It is with us all year round, from Amarillo to Albuquerque. This invisible force of nature can do significant damage. The roofers here at Quail Country Roofing have seen the effects of it all over the place. After a high-wind storm blows through, power lines go down, trees fall over, walls collapse, and signs go tumbling. And wind can do terrible damage to your roof also. We have seen whole sections of roof shingles stripped off of a roof deck.…