Assignment 2: A Case Study: Standardizing Base Damage

In the latest iteration of its approaches to getting housing aid to people displaced by Hurricane Katrina, FEMA has shifted its strategy from doling out incremental portions of housing assistance to cutting checks for up to the statutorily allowable amount of $26,200 per household for approximately 60,000 households whose homes FEMA has determined can be declared destroyed without need for inspection. Households whose homes are in certain ZIP codes in five parishes in Louisiana and three counties in Mississippi that satellite imaging show complete devastation are slated to start receiving checks for the remainder of their allowable ¡§individual household assistance¡¨ after deducting the $2,000 and/or $2,358 allotments some have already received. Homeowners will receive the full $26,200 and renters something less. Why there is a difference in aid between homeowners and renters was not explained.

Who pays for all these damages? People who live in hurricane prone areas obviously have insurance to fall back on when these disasters strike. It turns out that insurance companies also have insurance for instances like this. When insurance companies get stuck paying out large sums of money to a lot of people, they occasionally need a little help and

Often, the government responds to natural disasters with thorough preparation and planning. The federal, state, and local levels of government do this in an effort to help reduce injury and property damage as well as ensure the overall safety of the general population. The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season saw the costliest and one of the deadliest storms in United States history. This storm was Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina displaced of an estimated 645,000 Louisiana citizens (Cepeda, Valdez, Kaplan, & Hill, 2010). This paper will examine…

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) response to the Northridge earthquake was almost immediate with the assistance of two urban search and rescue teams and the support from FEMA continued to grow after that (DeBlasio et al,. (2002). During the first week of rebuilding the Federal government provided an aid package to support the rebuilding needs of the area impacted by the earthquake. The aid package was broken down int several categories of recipients of the money with the two largest being money for FEMA and money of the Federal Highway Association. FEMA received $3.9 million and the Federal Highway Association received $1.35 billion (Eugene, 2010) According to Eugene (2010) the Federal Emergency Management Agency also provided assistance for

The expenses would simply be outrageous to fund and down-right impossible, which every American understands. Since many homes were not in a flood zone, most people did not have flood insurance. They will have to leave because they cannot afford to come back to their homes. Furthermore, people have grown tired of the numerous natural disasters that hit Louisiana. As Zack Kopplin states, “Climate change could sink all of our major coastal cities, but Louisiana is being held to a different standard, because we’ve already been hit with so many disasters”. That is why many media coverages have been particularly weak on the coverage of the flooding, only capitalizing on the disaster porn and other corrupted media coverages. The tunnel vision of the news media and the critics prevent and delay the reconstruction of Louisiana. It is true that it would take an immense amount of funding to completely rebuild Louisiana, but we can not allow money to get in the way of rehabilitating our fellow

When one takes into account just the clean-up and recovery projects, Katrina does seem to outweigh 9/11 economically. Although, calculating specific mitigation and hazard controls implemented

As a disaster setback in you might be met all requirements for compensation to cover you remedial and recuperation cost, property repair or swap costs and pay for your enthusiastic inconvenience. If your injuries relinquish you by chance or for record-breaking disabled, you might be met all requirements for pay for your lost wages. Once in a while, accident losses in Texas might be qualified to recover reformatory damages which serve to rebuke the at-issue social event was awfully thoughtless.

Solutions to this continued problem could include reserving more funds into the natural disasters budget. This would provide a safety net for the citizens of the affected state along with the salaries of those helping such as firefighters and police. This raises the question, would the money actually be spent benefiting those needing assistance, and would it be filtered into a different budget without the citizens

Adams and Kostel, the authors, discuss the causes of the disasters and ways to minimize the effects of these type of disasters. The authors use physical data to help readers visualize the..causes..In...text..it..states,.“Total losses exceeded $150 billion.” The authors use monetary data to show the devastating effects of the hurricane.

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It was declared that more than 300 homes were damaged, many routes were closed due to damages, and lifelines also were touched more than it was expected (Webb, 2014). This situation engendered more expenses than it was expected. The main weakness of the long-term recovery plan is that it depended heavily on federal fund (FEMA, 2014). This is true for housing, the environment, and the infrastructure reconstruction. It was said that the long-term recovery was covered up to 75% by federal fund (FEMA, 2014). Another weakness is that the plan was not accurate and it was adjusted over time.

The actions of World War I and the subsequent deaths due to Australia’s decision to support Britain proved significantly detrimental both on a small scale level and for the nation in general. On a small-scale level, all the men who did survive had to deal with the destructive, soul-crushing nature of war due to the coercion of enlistments around them from both Britain, the “Great Empire”, and the Australian government. These World War I subsequently had to live with watching their fellow mates die on the battlefield, killing people, the enemy who were just young men like them and as James Donaldson recounted that “they waved and the Turks waved back too” in the Armistice, and those soldiers, they were put in the worst of situations just because they thought it was for the good of the country, when the men, the young men who did survive, suffered with mental, physical and psychological impact,

Truck Wrecks: Ensuring victims receive the appropriate compensation in what can often be catastrophic accidents.

* On May 9, 2006, Secretary Jackson approved Louisiana’s initial supplemental CDBG Disaster Action Plan and awarded the state $368.4 million to help meet the state’s infrastructure needs, provide interest-free small business bridge loans and support long-term planning efforts. On May 30, 2006, Secretary Jackson approved an amended plan and awarded an additional $4.6 billion of the state’s original $6.2 billion to fund Louisiana’s Road Home Program. This program provides up to $150,000 to eligible homeowners whose primary residences were located outside pre-Katrina designated flood zones and were destroyed or severely damaged following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. (Hurricane Katrina:  What Government is Doing, 2006)

In the U.S. alone, the average annual cost to repair damage caused by earthquakes is $4.4 billion USD. The worldwide figure is much larger than this but unquantifiable due to poorer countries unable to accurately determine the amount of damage that occurred. Year after year the cost of damages barely fluctuates from these ridiculously high figures and money must be pumped into repairing the damage done. Although a lot is being learnt about earthquakes and the fact that humans are now normally able to be alerted in time to evacuate the area the earthquake will affect, there have been no breakthroughs into reducing the amount of damage earthquakes cause to buildings and infrastructures.