Mitigation Planning Initiative Goals ü ü ü Reduce flood losses. Improve response and recovery. Enhance community confidence. Objectives ü Establish on-going floodway acquisition & land-use program. ü Rezone floodway to reflect current uses. ü Develop a written Flood Response & Recovery Plan. Accomplishments (Mitigation Strategies Being Implemented) ü A floodway is being converted to a riverside park and recreation area. ü Homes in the flood fringe are being raised above the 100 year elevation
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Running Head: IMPROVING FLOOD EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 1 Improving Flood Emergency Preparedness in League City Abstract This paper explores a vital need to the residents of League City in regards to flood emergency response. Based on online research from the City of League City Mitigation Plan‚ Galveston County Mitigation Plan‚ and The Council for Excellence in Government‚ a local flood preparedness campaign focusing on a coordinated community emergency preparedness educational
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natural hazard becomes a natural disaster when damage to people property or society is sufficient to cause a long recovery and rehabilitation process The four major hazards that affect are 1. drought 2. bush fires 3. tropical cyclones and storms 4. floods Cyclone Larry • AT LEAST 30 PEOPLE WERE INJURED; MOST INJURIES WERE MINOR. • ABOUT HALF THE BUILDINGS IN INNISFAIL AND 80 PER CENT IN BABINDA‚ TO THE NORTH‚ WERE DAMAGED. • THE BANANA INDUSTRY REPORTED LOSSES
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As a community health nurse the most important elements to stress to the community is to ensure steps have been implemented to secure your family‚ property and business. Developing a Family Disaster Plan is an often overlooked but crucial part of disaster preparedness. Living in Florida we prepare annually for hurricane season from June through November and prepare a hurricane preparation list as follows: Assemble Important Documents In a waterproof container‚ put important documents like:
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The Flood Last winter‚ we drove up to New York to visit my grandparents for Christmas. The plan was to spend the holiday there‚ and take a train into New York City the next morning. My grandparents live in Syracuse‚ so it ended up being about a six hour train ride. When we arrived and stepped out onto the street from Penn Station‚ my jaw literally dropped. The city was amazing. It was like nothing I had ever seen before. It was late at night and the streets were as full as they would be during
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takes a very short period of time to form. In most cases flash floods few form and take place Nature of floods There are few places on Earth where people need not be concerned about flooding due to their location. Rain is not the only impetus for flood even a broken dam wall can be the stimuli of a flood. A flood occurs when water overflows or inundates land that ’s normally dry. This can happen in a multitude of ways. Most common floods are when rivers or streams overflow their banks. Excessive
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our blames to the nature. Natural disasters are certainly beyond human control. But human action and inaction can intensely affect their outcome‚ exacerbating or mitigating their effects on people. Different catastrophes alarm us-earthquake‚ flood‚ volcanic eruption‚ tornado‚ tsunami‚ wildfire‚ drought‚ hailstorm‚ heat wave‚ hurricane‚ epidemic‚ famine‚ and other disasters. These events came naturally to us‚ sometimes‚ without further ado. Or is it really naturally? I bet it is not. Human activities
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Year 9 Geography Exam Revision Pack When is the exam? 1st February What will you be examined on? WILD WEATHER: 1) Tropical storms 2) Floods 3) Droughts 1) Tropical storms / Hurricanes / Typhoons / Cyclone (all the same event) The strongest tropical storms are called hurricanes‚ typhoons or tropical cyclones. The different names all mean the same thing‚ but are used in different parts of the world. If these huge storms start in the Atlantic‚ off the west coast of Africa
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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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References: Abdul-Akeem‚ Sadeeq. 2012. A Look at Nigeria’s Bourgeoning Emergency Management System: Challenges‚ Opportunities‚ and Recommendations for Improvement. Abubakar‚ Auwal AIR WORLDWIDE. 2011. A Comparison of the Great Mississippi River Floods of 1993 and 2011: Implications for Crop Insurance and Reinsurance BID-CEPAL‚ 2000. A matter of development: how to reduce vulnerability in the face of natural disasters Department: Technical Studies and Conference Proceedings. www.iadb.org/ sds/env/publications
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