California Natural Disasters

During our week in New Orleans, we will have excellent opportunities to learn about different cultures, the effects of natural disasters, and reasons as to why New Orleans is facing poverty and economic distress through our volunteer work with Project Homecoming, 1 in 5 homes in New Orleans is still blighted, 10 years after Katrina. New Orleans still has a high rate of blighted (abandoned) homes. We will be helping to rebuild homes, but we will also be helping to improve the surrounding community spaces such as there local gardens.

There are many historical sites today in California that share many similarities and differences to the book “Major Problems in California History” in the way of how both present the historical information they provide. One historical site in California that draws my attention and I found interesting was Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park. Sutter’s Fort was built in 1839 by a Swiss immigrant named John Sutter, who created the land into a flourishing agricultural empire, and a destination for early immigrants to California. However, Sutter’s Fort was abandoned less than a decade after it was established, as the discovery of gold on the land caused it to be overrun by gold seekers. The historical site Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park has been

Morning brought the peace of a warm sunny day to the small town of Tributary; such a contrast to the violent events of the day before, still there was a sense of mourning in the air. The town folk spent much of the day recovering lost property. Everyone felt fortunate to have found their missing belongings. Everyone except Corvida Bratleigh! Rather than being thankful her playhouse was undamaged by the tornado, Corvida was angry that her playhouse was in Nikki Fernandez’s garden! The playhouse was hers, not Nikki’s and she was going to make sure that Nikki did not step one foot in her lovely little house.

In 2012 and 2013 Klamath County on the Southern Oregon border declared a drought in April, after a string of fortunate years of heavy rain and snow. In 2014, a drought emergency was declared in February, two months earlier than in 2013, and in 2015 drought was again declared for the county in April( United State Geological Survey 2015). These successive drought declarations are not surprising to anyone who was following the Western water crisis during those years, where the governor of California declared a state of emergency and urban Californians were mandated to find ways to cut their water consumption drastically . In 2012, 10,000 avian mortalities were reported in the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuges because of the shut off of water facilities that support wetland habitat for migratory species (Learn 2012.) During those dry years, an article titled Birds are Dying As Drought Ravages Avian Highways ran in National Geographic, featuring Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge and putting the struggle of its bird species in a regional context, as long distance flyers found fewer and fewer refuges with the water resources to maintain them( Kay 2015). It was these shocking statistics that first attracted me, as a birder, to the basin as an area of study. However, as I began to wade into the history of the basin and its complicated local politics, I soon realized that I could not disentangle the issues experienced by wildlife and wildlife managers in the

On August 20th, 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower declared Connecticut a disaster area, due to major flooding from both Hurricane Connie on August 11 and Hurricane Diane on the 17th. Sixty-seven towns experienced flooding prompting residents to banned together to save their community and homes. Considered by many to be the most tragic events in the history of Connecticut, it also brought the necessary public awareness to the danger of floods and what can cause them. The devastation caused by Connie and Diane awakened forecasters, politicians, and regional planners. "A week after the now-named Hurricane Floods of 1955, the Weather Bureau acknowledged the need to upgrade their flashflood warning system. Levees and other flood protection measures

They took a sharp turn over a some railroad tracks and the back door flew open. Jeannette rolled out of the car, she rolled many yards on the embankment. When she came to a stop, she was too shocked to cry and she all bloody and scraped up. She called herself a burden, and said they could do fine without her. When her family turned around and came screeching to a halt, her dad got out of the car, knelt down, and tried to give Jeannette

Citizens of America seek thrill and excitement. Whether this is in the form of concerts or snorkeling in the waters off the coast of Hawaii. However, others choose to go to the extreme and participate in the utmost endeavours. These thrill seekers may go through intense training before taking place in these activities. Accidents, although, do happen. Individuals cannot predict all that will transpire. People have a moral obligation to save others in need.

California is notorious for its wildfires. In the last two decades San Diego County has faced some of the most destructive firestorms in state history (Brainard, 2007). Ron Roberts, chairman of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, describes the county’s disposition as, "We have a very dangerous, unpredictable situation. We have some of the highest temperatures, some of the driest landscape conditions, and some of the most powerful winds - all ingredients for a perfect firestorm (Pesce, 2007)." In 2003, San Diego County was overwhelmed by firestorms, including the Cedar Fire, and at that time it was the worst in state history. However, in 2007 San Diego was once again devastated by firestorms, but this time more mighty than the preceding (Ekard, Tuck, Jr., & Steffen, 2003). San Diego has had its fair share of practice at managing firestorm response actions. The 2003 firestorms proved that there were numerous inefficiencies within the county’s emergency response plan, while the 2007 firestorms emergency response revealed the lessons learned from 2003 and improvements implemented were effective. The threat of future firestorms in San Diego County are inevitable due to the continuing drought, Santa Anna winds, climate changes, and human behavior (Pesce, 2007). Having a well-constructed Incident Command System (ICS) and the trained personnel to execute its model is the most effective measure to mitigate the degree of life lost and property damage in a disaster incident. A

The golden state suffers from extreme drought that begins since three years. The drought start because the climate changes which cause lack of snowpack on top of mountains that milts and fill California lakes. Another climate changes are the high temperature, which cause agriculture draught that requires more water. The underlying problem after this drought that farmers have lost their jobs and the lakes, which is the source of water in California drought. The draught this year is the worst in the state's history and the water will not last for more than one year.

Residents of the Lone Star State are fond of saying that everything is bigger in Texas, from football teams to marching bands, farmers' markets to barbecue favorites. But a corollary to that oft-spoken refrain is everything is better in Texas as well. After all, the state was the second-most inbound location for families who moved in 2015, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and for eight consecutive years, Harris County maintained the distinction as the U.S. county with the most significant annual population growth.

There is a town out of water because of the farmers using too much water for their crops.There is no doubt that California is a big farming country evenly as important since California is in a big drought, without doubt farmers use a lot of water.If they use all the water the city won't have water.Private wells have gone dry before in California, Again not on a scale such as that in East Porterville this summer.-

When addressing the California drought Governor Brown said, “I’ve declared this a state of emergency and I’m calling all Californians to conserve water in every way possible.” This really put into perspective how severe the drought had become. As of now the drought has been labeled as the worst drought in our history. Being forced into a State Of Emergency means the government has required citizens to change their behavior/lifestyle from what it was in order to cope with an issue at hand. The government has also been forced to follow therewith emergency plans as the drought seems to not be getting better. The drought has been caused by one main factor. That factor being climate change. And climate change has resulted in the mountain snowpack

In 1987 an atmospheric river heated Los Angeles ,the consecutive rain for more than 5 days made this the largest Flood that had happen in Los Angeles. This is best know as the California Great Flood. Houses, infrastructure, landfill were under water and hundreds of people die. This Flood has been the most expensive flood recorder in Los Angeles history. Billions of dollars were the total sum of losses left by the Flood as a result the entire state of california was declared in bankruptcy. Los angeles is not a place where hurricanes are generated due to its location but it is affected by El nino and atmospheric rivers that year after year are increasing its power. Is a vulnerable city where flood can occur at anytime , due to it topography

This article from September 4 presents information about the wildfires that raged along the shores of the world's largest freshwater lake, Lake Baikal, in Siberia late in the summer. At the time it was written, the fires had turned the area into an inferno, "engulfing an area three times the size of land burnt by wildfires in California this year" (Tétrault-Farber). In the process, it threatened the health and way of life of local residents and made many people question Russia's ability to protect this lake and other landmarks of its natural heritage.

This paper will discuss the differences between two different natural and man-made disasters. The disasters that will be discussed are Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Additionally, this paper will look into the specifics of what constitutes a natural and man-made disaster. Specifically, this paper will look into each disaster to include the events surrounding them; the risks; and the assessments. Furthermore, this paper will look at some of the details of each disaster and why there was so much devastation. Finally, this paper will look at a few similarities, but mainly the differences between the two, and how the effects of each still linger today.