providing resources during and before a natural disaster‚ the public health department informs the local population. This paper will analyze flooding as a public health emergency‚ how public health departments plan‚ prepare‚ and help recover from a flood; the paper will also address Laramie County’s emergency preparedness‚ and analyze how to create an emergency kit‚ create a family disaster plan‚ and stay informed during an emergency or disaster. Flooding is a public health emergency due to several
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We as human beings are very fortunate to be living on this planet that we call Earth. We toil over the land‚ and in return we receive provisions off of which we live. Even though we get all that we need from this bountiful land‚ we still for some reason feel like we need to alter it. In doing so we also end up ruining the land that we thrive on. We reshape the world to fit our individual needs‚ and the earth just doesn’t work that way. Everything on this planet has a purpose‚ from the largest animal
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massive slabs of snow break loose from a mountainside and shatter like broken glass as they race downhill. These moving masses can reach speeds of 80 miles (130 kilometers) per hour within about five seconds. Victims caught in these events seldom escape. Avalanches are most common during and in the 24 hours right after a storm that dumps 12 inches (30 centimeters) or more of fresh snow. The quick pileup overloads the underlying snowpack‚ which causes a weak layer beneath the slab to fracture. The
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technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ orexplosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life‚ property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people. In contemporary academia‚ disasters are seen as the consequence of
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Bridge disaster)‚ by corrosion attack (such as in the Silver Bridge collapse)‚ or by aerodynamic flutter of the deck (as in Galloping Gertie‚ the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge). Failure of dams was not infrequent during the Victorian era‚ such as the Dale Dyke dam failure in Sheffield‚ England in the 1860s‚ causing the Great Sheffield Flood. Other failures include balcony collapses or building collapses such as that of the World Trade Center. [edit] Power outage Main article: Power outage A power
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I am going to compare the physical and human flooding causes for an MEDC; the UK and an LEDC; Bangladesh. The Boscastle Floods‚ in Cornwall occurred on August 16th 2004. Between July and September of 1998‚ Bangladesh also incurred large amounts of flooding. There were a number of physical factors causing the Boscastle floods. The village suffered from heavy rainfall. Over 2 hours‚ 0.05mm of rainfall fell per minute. In total‚ over 3 million tonnes of water was added to the small drainage basin
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country around Mount Everest. Some of its headstreams rise beyond the Nepalese border in Tibet. About […] 48 km north of the Indian-Nepalese frontier‚ the Kosi is joined by several major tributaries and breaks southward through the Siwālik Hills at the narrow Chatra Gorge. The river then emerges on the great plain of northern India in Bihār state on its way to the Ganges River‚ which it enters south of Purnea after a course of about […] 724 km.”1 This is the first passage in which the Encyclopedia Britannica
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the facility‚ loss of life‚ or loss of assets. Threats could include weather‚ fire or chemical‚ earth movement‚ structural failure‚ energy‚ biological‚ or human. In terms of environmental risks that are external things such as earthquakes‚ fires‚ floods‚ mudslides‚ snow‚ ice‚ lightning‚ hurricanes‚ tornadoes‚ zombies‚ and killer bee’s etc.‚ are considered. Internal Environmental risk factors could be human malicious intent‚ human error‚ utility issues (leaks)‚ power outages‚ and equipment failures
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Uttarakhand Tragedy – A Man-Made Disaster Recent tragedy because of heavy rains and flash floods in Uttarakhand has resulted in heavy loss of life‚ property and damage which will take years to recover. Many villages and cities were affected because of this catastrophe. Why meteorological department did not warn residents of those areas earlier in advance? Why evacuation orders were not issued? Why proper disaster response team was not in place so that when such a disaster strikes the whole government
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ASSIGNMENT ON FLOOD SUBMITTED TO DR. KHAIRUL BASHAR COURSE NO: GS 410 SUBMITTED BY Ashraful Arefin 4th year (Hons) Session: 2003-2004 DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY SAVAR‚ DHAKA 1|Page CONTENTS Questions: 1. What is flood? 2. What are the causes of floods? 3. What are different types of flood? 4. What are the effects of flood? 5. Discuss the different methods of control and prevention of flood. 6. How flood can be predicted? Discuss prediction
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