CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTS ECONOMY Weather is one of the important elements in a certain county. Philippines is a tropical country and had two seasons: dry season and wet season. Being a tropical country‚ Philippines experience a hot weather which http://www.mapsofworld.com/referrals/weather/climate/tropical-climate.html stated that tropical climate has an average temperature above 18ºC. Climate change is one of the disasters that can barely affect the economy of a certain country. Baguio City‚
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FLASH FLOOD By aeoncraft Now I know what a flash flood is like. I "spoke" too soon at my last status update. Shortly after that‚ I got cut off from facebook because of a power outage. Barely an hour later‚ brown muddy water started creeping across the floor from under the closed door. I pulled down the main switches even if the power was out and ran to the back to get the piece of plywood which‚ according to my cousin’s instructions (this is his house)‚ I was supposed to place against the
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boasts her affluent gambling cultures. There are many people who go to casinos simply due to their desire to earn a lot of money while others have specific business-relevant reasons. Obviously‚ those places are vulnerable to natural disasters like typhoons and earthquakes since those catastrophes result in vast economic loss not only because it costs a lot to build casinos but also many people
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than three times larger (more than 1.1 billion). As a result‚ the environment faces many critical issues‚ such as: • water shortages; • unclean water sources; • air pollution; • deforestation; • natural disasters from earthquakes‚ floods‚ and typhoons; • soil erosion from unwise agricultural methods. An ever-growing population naturally results in more pollution. As the industrial sector grows and more people drive cars‚ air pollution becomes an increasingly difficult problem to handle. Due
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April and Dodong both stopped schooling at Grade 3 and grade 4 respectively as the typhoon Sendong broke out. They sometimes join classes held at Xavier University during Wednesdays and Saturdays‚ and they are so proud that they have ates and kuyas in Xavier. After the Sendong tragedy‚ Dodong was lucky enough to have her family completely but as of April‚ it turned his father to be missing until now. Before the typhoon hit the city‚ they were living beneath the Carmen Bridge‚ and now‚ both their families
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Overcrowding Is Greatest Problem - overcrowded jails and prisons is greatest law enforcement problem - Brief Article Of the myriad problems plaguing law enforcement today‚ overcrowded jails and prisons are the worst‚ based on a survey of nearly 200 law enforcement personnel by EPIC Solutions‚ San Diego‚ Calif.‚ according to Daniel A. Crawford‚ president and CEO. Of those attending the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference‚ 33% named overcrowded facilities as the industry’s greatest
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Space technology has benefited our modern society. To what extent has it benefitted us? (Word Count: -25) This picture of our blue planet has become so mundane that even grade school students would cease to be mesmerised by it. Thanks to daily real-time forecast on TV‚ the picture of mother earth has almost become ho-hum. Weather forecast has improved to a point where we take the forecast for granted. Without realising it‚ the technological spin-offs from Space Program (spinoff.nasa.gov) of the
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Chocolate Hills It is an unusual geological formation in Carmen‚ Bohol Province‚ Philippines. There are at least 1‚260 hills but there may be as many as 1‚776 hills spread over an area of more than 50 square kilometers. Philippine tarsier It is known locally as “maumag” in Cebuano/Visayan and “mamag” in Luzon‚ is an endangered species of tarsier endemic to the Philippines. Loboc River Cruise It is a river on Municipality of Loboc‚ 24 kilometers from the provincial capital of Tagbilaran City
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THE EVACUATION CENTER An evacuation center is a place designed and constructed to protect people living in vicinity during an emergency‚ especially during natural disasters such as typhoons‚ flooding‚ and earthquake. The level of occupant protection provided by a space specifically designed as a shelter is intended to be much greater than the protection provided by buildings that comply with the minimum requirements of building codes. The model building codes do not provide design and construction
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Knowing Exposure Risks Important to Saving Structures from Wildfires Sep. 4‚ 2013 — A recent study of one of California’s most devastating wildland fires by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) strongly suggests that measures for reducing structural damage and property loss from wildland urban interface (WUI) fires are most effective when they are based on accurate assessments of exposure risks both for individual structures and the community
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