collectively worth $850 million. Although dealing with those claims was difficult‚ even more difficult was Rommel’s later decision to cancel approximately 40‚000 homeowners’ policies. Nationwide received a huge amount of mediaattention as a result‚ almost all negative. In reflecting on the decision‚ Rommel said‚ ―Pulling out was a soundbusiness decision. Was it good for the individual customer? No‚ I can’t say it was. But the rationale wassound.‖Hurricanes aren’t the only weapons in nature’s
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major impact on the country was the terrorist attack that happened in New York. The terrorist attack effected everyone around the world‚ either they were there or not. This attack was caused by a group of Islamist extremist that stole planes and flew them over the US. There were a total of four planes that caused many people losing their lives and marking that day as the 9/11 terrorist attack. The first two planes was flown into the twin towers in New York‚ the third one was flown into the Pentagon‚
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Natural Disasters can have both a positive and negative impact on the local‚ national and the global economy. However it is rare‚ but not out of the question‚ to see the positive impact it may have on an economy. For instance‚ when disaster struck in Haiti from the 7.3 magnitude earthquake in 2010‚ between 200‚000-250‚000 people were killed. That is 2 percent of the total Haitian population of only 10 million. Comparatively New York City alone totals nearly as much as the entire population of Haiti
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A natural disaster is the happening of a dangerous hazardous event‚ which can cause damages for the societies (Petrucci‚ 2012). Floods are one of the most common natural disasters over the world and they have occasional devastating influences in developed as well as developing countries (Ahern‚ 2005). Recently the floods increasingly happen over the world in general and specially in Australia. For example‚ a sequence of floods in Queensland in early December 2010 did happen and led to a damage of
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"Hurricane Katrina: A Natural and Political Disaster" Four days after Hurricane Katrina devastated much of the northern Gulf Coast‚ tired and angry people stranded at the convention center in New Orleans welcomed a supply convoy carrying food‚ water and medicine with cheers and tears of joy. Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. It was the sixth-strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the third-strongest land-falling
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attempt to stop the ARE operations. It was a saga that ran for more than two decades‚ and it pitted the villagers‚ helped by various civic organisations ‚ against big business and powerful state authorities. An exercise to decommission the ARE plant finally began in 2003‚ but the work to decontaminate the area is still going on and is estimated to cost RM300 million. The New York Times called it “the largest radiation cleanup yet in the rare earth industry”. ARE was a collaboration between Mitsubishi
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longer to heal the country has made major steps towards recovering from the worst economic effects of the disaster. Apart from unrecoverable losses in human lives‚ the tsunami would cost us billions of dollars and decades to restore its damage. However‚ it also provided us a chance to look back at the serious mistakes that we have made when promoting development without considering the natural forces that sustain us. From the lessons given by the tsunami‚ we recognized that many vital links which
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Natural Disasters Tragedies after tragedy after one after another. Simply‚ the impacts of climate change to Philippines. Natural Disasters Tragedies after tragedy after one after another. Simply‚ the impacts of climate change to Philippines. The Philippines is on top of the list of countries in the world in terms of the occurrence of natural disasters in 2011‚ the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction said. The worst disaster that hit
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Natural Disasters of the Last 100 years 2010 Haiti earthquake The 2010 Haiti earthquake was an earthquake of catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw‚ with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne‚ approximately 25 km west of the capital of Haiti. The earthquake occurred at 4:53 local time on Tuesday January 12‚ 2010. For January 24 were at least 52 replicates of 4.5 or greater. An estimated three million people were affected by the earthquake. The highest death toll is estimated at 220‚000. Haitian government
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Summary and Recommendations: Natural Disaster Management From the lesson learnt among the experiences of Natural Disasters and local management for livelihood strategies in Myanmar/Burma‚ we found some key points which are the causes of natural disasters or causes making people more suffered‚ and the good experiences which peoples found and practice for emergency response or management for livelihood. Summary - Extraction on natural resources without conducting assessment on possible impacts
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