Imagine finding out that there is a hurricane that is a category five hurricane is about to hit your home town and you hear that you must leave the area. In a situation like this most individual use both the avoidance and the loss reduction techniques for risk management to protect their self from the hurricane. When using the avoidance techniques when a hurricane is come most individual who are in a flooded area would leave their homes and go to a shelter or another town that is not in the area
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Hurricane Harvey was a category 4 hurricane that devastated the eastern coast of Texas. This catastrophic hurricane destroyed countless homes and properties. Many people’s lives have been‚ and will continue to be affected by this storm for years to come. Harvey was a hurricane that swept through the area of Houston‚ Texas over a period of about ten days. Prior to the landfall of Hurricane Harvey‚ the city of Houston was not ordered to be evacuated. This is surprising because of the known magnitude
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I can easily recall the memories of my uncle later on being deployed and my dad going on trips to work. I can without difficulty think back to the stories that my uncle told me about being deployed to help. He had to leave early from deployment because it was that horrid of a scene. He explained the gruesome scene and how awful it was to clean up the bodies and search for the missing people. “The Coast Guard‚ for instance‚ rescued
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Joshua Darnell Hillard Composition I 17 April 2008 Dr. MacVaugh A Much Needed Change: FEMA & Hurricane Katrina It has been almost three years since the catastrophic hurricane winds and water of Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast. New Orleans was the most damaged city and media coverage showed the outcries of the neglected people. Many feel that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is to blame and‚ rightfully so. FEMA is a very disorganized and dysfunctional agency;
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Texas residents waited anxiously for days‚ and then it finally came: Hurricane Harvey. On Friday‚ August 25‚ Hurricane Harvey struck the shore Texas waging a war with the state in which 15-20 trillion estimated gallons of water were dumped and at least 60 lives were claimed. It seems high magnitude hurricanes are becoming more and more common‚ and it may be our fault. A large factor in the strength and commonality of hurricanes is the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) which entails the temperature
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Sylvie’s Rough Draft A category 5 hurricane can reach up to 155 mph winds (USA TODAY). There were already 3 hurricanes in the 20th century. I think you should evacuate the city even if it’s not that severe just to be safe. It’s for your own safety. We will be evacuating the city for your own safety. Any soft or young trees will snap or uproot with winds that strong‚ destroying everything it lands on including electrical wires‚ houses‚ cars‚ and other dangerous things. Also water levels will rise
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Hurricanes and Tornadoes are two of the most violent natural disasters known to mankind. There are many similarities and differences between these two disasters. While there are many differences between the two‚ The severe similarities are as dramatic. Although the bear some minor differences‚ The similarities between hurricanes and tornadoes are clear because they both have early warning systems‚ create massive destruction‚ and involves heavy wind speeds that can end up deadly. Both hurricanes
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characteristics of descriptive research. b. Differentiate survey and case study. c. Identify the different types of Descriptive research d. Discuss the advantage and disadvantages of Descriptive research e. Answer the drills correctly II. OUTLINE OF CONTENTS A. DEFINITION OF DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH B. CHARACTERISTICS OF DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH C. ADVANTAGES OF DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH D. DISADVANTAGES OF DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH E. TYPES OF DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH F. TECHNIQUES
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between Tsunami and Hurricane Tsunamis and hurricanes are nature’s furies. They both create disasters and destruction in the world. But‚ tsunamis and hurricanes are different in their respective ways. A tsunami is a series of ocean waves‚ which is caused by surges of water reaching heights of 100 feet or more. A hurricane‚ on the other hand‚ is a powerful storm. When talking of the origin of tsunamis and hurricanes‚ they are formed by two different forces. Hurricanes are formed over warm
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Hurricane Dancers is primarily poetic fiction. For example‚ Bernardino de Talavera‚ the pirate who captures Quebrado‚ Ojeda‚ and other slaves‚ says “I offered the illusion of mercy/and Ojeda was desperate enough/to believe me.” (10) The author portrays Ojeda as an assassin killing for glory. But Ojeda seems weak in Talavera’s flashback‚ falling for his “fake mercy”. If the author kept Ojeda’s killer trait‚ Ojeda wouldn’t have certainly fallen for Talavera’s lie. But instead‚ Ojeda does fall for his
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