HURRICANE SANDY Hurricane Sandy was a tropical cyclone that devastated portions of the Caribbean‚ Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States in late October 2012. The eighteenth named storm and tenth hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season‚ Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record‚ as measured by diameter‚ with winds spanning 1‚100 miles. Sandy is estimated in early calculations to have caused damage of at least $20 billion. Preliminary estimates of losses that include business
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Test 3 Study Guide Test 3 will cover chapters 5‚ 6‚ 7‚ 8‚ 9‚ and the material presented on Hurricane Katrina and the recent earthquake in Japan. It will have 42 multiple-choice (2 points each) and 4 short answer/diagrams (4 points each). Topics for review * Earthquake terms: * fault: break (fracture) in a rock * rupture: breaking of rock along a fault * hypocenter (focus): rupture point of rock below surface * epicenter: point on earth surface directly above hypocenter
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Hurricane Katrina carries a great impact on the lives of American as well as the view of infrastructure and engineering in the public mindset. If you ask the general public what lead to the demise of New Orleans back in 2005 many will say it was the failed levees that left Louisiana and the 9th District underwater and cost the lives of innocent people who believed they were safe. But why did these levees fail? What could have been done from an engineering standpoint to fix these levees and perhaps
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What Went Wrong With Forzani’s Group Managing a company is not the easiest thing to do. That being said‚ there are many factors in helping your company grow. Over the years a company will ‘evolve’ so to say‚ and will not be the same as it was 10‚ 20 maybe 50 years ago. Lately‚ Forzani Group Ltd. Has not has been doing as well as it was in the past. ‘Not so long ago‚ this Calgary-based company was considered an unrivalled league leader‚ with more than 390 stores nationwide‚ and
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Hurricane Sandy and It’s Effects Hurricane Sandy and It’s Effects Hurricane Sandy struck the east coast only a few weeks ago‚ yet it is already a part of the history. Millions of people had power and water outage all over the east coast; in small towns as well as in big cities. Many lost their houses while some lost their live‚ yet the disaster is not something that can be prevented‚ or avoided. It’s something to be careful of. Everything is predetermined
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In August of 1983 Hurricane Alicia slammed into Texas coastline causing mass destruction. The hurricane formed near Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico before hitting Texas. Hurricane Alicia was responsible for the death of 21 people‚ along with nearly two billion dollars in damages. Alicia was the first ever billion dollar hurricane to destroy Texas. Hurricane Alicia tore through Galveston and Houston with wind speeds of 115 miles per hour destroying parts of the cities and created at least 23 reported
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Article Review 2 Memory Dilallo PHSC 210-A26 Liberty Online March 25‚ 2013 Introduction The East African Rift System is also referred to as the (EARS). This is a place where the earth’s tectonic forces are trying to create new plates by splitting old ones apart. A rift is defined as a fracture in the earth’s surface that widens over time. A more technical definition for a rift is an elongated basin bounded by opposed steeply dipping normal faults
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Possible Solutions to prevent another Hurricane Katrina Sea gates are another option that have proven very affective in other areas of the world such as Holland‚ Britain‚ and Venice‚ which is also below sea level and has a large number of canals. Sea gates are simply giant air-filled walls that cut off water flow. These gates would most likely be placed on Lake Pontchartrain’s two narrow outlets and would be only be closed if a storm was approaching. Such structures have been considered since
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“What is right and wrong?” and “What is Truth?” What is right and wrong? Life is characterized by many situations that require decision making‚ especially on moral grounds. The issue of what makes an action right and wrong has been studied for a lengthy period of time and several theories developed to address this issue. Socrates and Aristotle are some of the early philosophers who came up with theories about the rightness or wrongness of actions. As noted by Warnek (2005)‚ Socrates considered
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What Went Well in The Simulation The stimulation started well since the introduction was clear and done properly. The simulation was presented well by debriefing and also evaluating. The most important element of the Simulation is that it was in a clinical environment. The environment brought the students to eality and ensured the facilitator and students are actively engaged in the whole process. The Simulation was very effective given the environment that it was conducted in was practical enough
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