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    Do you know how to prepare for a category five hurricane like Irma? We get the warnings from our local news station‚ but we always hope “that” the hurricane is not coming to our town. Reality is hurricanes have no patterns‚ and while weather predictions are vastly improving through technology‚ unfortunately hurricanes are hard to predict where they will make landfall until that very day. To begin let’s discuss protection of the residence “your home is one of your largest investments‚ so protecting

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    Go Went Gone

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    Sri. Shashibhushan Kumar‚ IAS.‚  Commissioner (Rural Development) 23296790(O) 23243518 comm_rd@ap.gov.in  commnr_rd@yahoo.co.in  Smt. V.Karuna‚ IAS   Director (MGNREGS) 23296790(O) 23243518   Dr. C. Suvarna‚ IFS.‚  Special Commissioner‚ RD (Watershed)  27650041(O)  27650042(O)  scrdap@gmail.com  Sri K.Vidyasagar‚ IFS.‚  Special Commissioner‚ RD  23298979(O)  24019116 (R) 96522 20228‚ 23243518vidyasagarkoppolu@yahoo.com   Sri M Srinivas Baba   Director (DWCRA / SHGs)    23296279(Off)

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    Hurricane Sandy's Impact

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    politics‚ resides on three islands where the Hudson River meets the Atlantic Ocean (Hawkinson‚ 2014). Access to this major shipping port offers New York City many economic opportunities‚ but expansion is putting the city at risk for disaster. Hurricane Sandy struck New York City with record-breaking force on October of 2012‚ claiming many lives and causing billions of dollars in damage. According to National Geographic (2012)‚ the super storm killed over one hundred people in Haiti and the Caribbean

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    Six days after Hurricane Ike made landfall‚ Texas experienced the largest blackout in history of the state. Hurricane Ike took place in September of 2008. The Gulf of Mexico‚ Texas‚ and Arkansas were all affected by Ike. Hurricanes can be extremely dangerous and cause large amounts of damage. Hurricanes can form very quickly and destroy communities in only a few days. Hurricanes are caused by warm‚ moist air being present over the ocean. The air rises up near the surface. The warm air rises so there

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    years. Hurricane Floyd struck the eastern coast of the United States in during the mid-month of September of 1999. This storm originated over the Atlantic off of the western region of Africa. Although Floyd only began as a tropical wave‚ it became a storm the United States thought could be the biggest and strongest they had ever seen. In preparation for this storm from Weather Forecast Offices and different Prediction Centers began to warn the public. Although the strange path of the hurricane‚ it was

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    Why i went to College

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    My Long Journey for College “My reasons for college are probably just like everyone else’s. I went to college because I wanted a better life for myself and better myself. I wanted to find a job that I would not be living paycheck to paycheck like my parents had to do when they first got married. I mean‚ no one wants to live that way? I know for a fact that I did not want that‚ and that is why I choose to go to college‚ even more than is the main reason why college was so important to me. Another

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    Irma‚ the deadly hurricane that held no conscious in terminating any object in its path was soon to arrive Florida. The black ominous clouds were suffocating the sun. The temperature dropped‚ the air was bone-chilling sending shivers throughout my body. Slowly the atmosphere was beginning to feel intoxicating. There was no solution but to endure its wrath. The wind was howling in fury‚ seeking for revenge. It bent the palm trees neck and snapped it in half. The palm trees were now lifeless‚ scattered

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    communities that are less fortunate especially after Hurricane Sandy. I felt that as a citizen who live in the downtown region and have been impacted by Hurricane Sandy‚ it is an important duty for me to lend a hand to my neighborhood. For a while now I have been helping my neighborhood which is located in the Lower East Side by fixing up the park down in the East River Park. The East River Park‚ not only have been hit really hard by Hurricane Sandy but it is also a park that is less funded by the

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    Joe Burgess Mr. Jason Kirker Eng.120H 10 December 20121 Hidden Issues: The Healthcare Infrastructure of Post-Katrina New Orleans When Hurricane Katrina struck the city of New Orleans in August of 2005‚ the physical damage that the storm caused was easily seen. Mass flooding led to the destruction of many homes and famous landmarks. In an attempt to get out of the way of the storm’s path‚ many citizens fled the city in the days before the storm. Some‚ though‚ for various reasons‚ did not

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    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report has been shaped to examine the reason of a failed T-card project initiated for automating Sydney’s transportation ticketing system‚ the objective of the system was to create a smart card that can be used with the CityRail‚ Sydney Busses‚ Sydney ferries service‚ trams and it will also bring all other private transport service providers into city’s integrated ticketing system (Anonymous‚ Tcard viewed on 24 sep 09). The contract was awarded to a Perth based ERG Group

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