Factors Of Evacuation Decision Making Behaviors

Evacuation is a common way that many people cope with a category five hurricane like the storm Irma that just devastated parts of the Florida Keys and Miami. When evacuating it is important to know what are the best times to leave and where you should go. For example if someone decided to drive straight into the storm as it was hitting, not such a good idea. According to, The Department of Homeland Security, “If you

Katrina was a crisis primarily because of its scale and the mixture of challenges that it posed, not least the failure of the levees in New Orleans. Because of the novelty of a crisis, predetermined emergency plans and response behavior that may function quite well in dealing with routine emergencies are frequently grossly inadequate or even counterproductive. That proved true in New Orleans, for example, in terms of evacuation planning, law enforcement, rescue activities, sheltering, and provisions for the elderly and infirm.

Natural Disasters are very difficult to control and they most often create divided opinion among citizens of states. Authorities are always at crossroads with the citizens when trying to implement policies that are likely to force homeowners to evacuate when natural disaster is looming. Implementing forceful arrest and evacuation of people who are unwilling to leave during natural disasters is a good policy which will simply protect lives and valuable properties of victims. Since the aftermath of natural disasters cannot be predicted, it becomes necessary to evacuate, albeit, forcefully, as smaller potential natural disasters can turn

Happy Sunday , I hope this week started out great for you. I really like the way you address week one's questions. When working in large buildings, where there is only two way up , stairs or elevator, you are completely correct, you must come down. William, I did not think about it the way you did, making everyone feelings a part by add to the planning and assign responsibility will make them more receptacle to the evacuation training. Rehearsal drills are the best it allows you to see if a plan is working effectively, if you can't do it any certain time , their is time to make adjustments for improvements. I think the United State government has put more force on crisis situations since the 9/11 attack. Another crisis like

How do explain something that is completely in the wrong as ok? Why can people, organizations and even governments make irrational decision over and over again? The United States prides itself on it’s ability to be a free country and support freedom of religion and freedom of speech but throughout history their are numerous accounts of the United States going against it’s own beliefs and treating it’s people in terrible ways. One example of the United States going against it’s pride in equality and rhetoric of democracy and acting in ways of exclusion and inequality is during World War II when the United States forced evacuation of the Japanese to internment camps. The memoir, “Looking

According to Vance Packard, leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something that you are convinced should be done (Lewis, 2003). Leadership is a pertinent part of project management. James Lewis (2003) says leadership is not a position; it’s the ability to gain commitment from people. According to Professor Warren G. Bennis, “Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right”. The importance of leadership in a project is demonstrated in the case study, “A Peaceful Evacuation: Building a Multi-Project Team Battalion by Leading Upward”. This case study involves two leaders, who had similar, but mostly, different

Finally, sources three shows the success in evacuation as the sources show effectiveness and good organisation as a success of evacuation. This encompasses overall efficiency and pre-evacuation planning. To be able to transport the huge amount of 1million (intended 4million) to the countryside required this efficiency and overall, sources three and source two mention the efficiency and order of the transport (trains) and organisation in the countryside. In source three, a newspaper article from Kent, says that the departures were efficient, reflecting that it was seen to that ‘each child got milk and food’, and followed up with ‘no confusion’. Even source two, though showing evacuation in a negative way, also comments that the trains ‘ran to time’ and that evacuation came ‘complete with teachers’. Having teachers is shown in sources one, three and four as well. In source one, it is shown as a teacher with a group of children, in three there are mentioned ‘teachers in charge’ and in four, the graph shows about 103,000 teachers were evacuated. The fact that they were able to organise having teachers for the children,

Fritz, Charles. Disasters and Mental Health: Therapeutic Principles Drawn from Disaster Studies. Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, 1996.

The burden of emergency management has grown great deal in the last few decades. We have seen an increase in natural disasters, a new threat of terrorism on our front door and an increase in manmade disasters. All of these have tested emergency management in a number of cities and towns across the nation. It is not always disasters that present problems for emergency managers. We have to look beyond our traditional view of emergency management of helping us during times of disasters and view what issues they consider may affect their emergency response. Issues that emergency management see that are moving into the critical area are issues of urbanization and hazard exposure, the rising costs of disaster recovery, and low priority of emergency management.

Data obtained by assessing social vulnerability must be implemented within each phase of the emergency management process; mitigation, response, and recovery. First, to effectively respond and recover from incidents emergency management agencies must concentrate on the mitigation phase to prevent incidents from happening in the first place. This is achieved through a thorough hazard/vulnerability analysis (HVA). This type of analysis assesses the risk of physical, economic, and social vulnerability within all communities of a given jurisdiction (Lindell et al., 2006, p. 165). Additionally, the basis of the HVA allows emergency managers to effectively plan for disaster by creating pre-planned responses to disasters (rather than improvised response) and staging resources to locations with the highest probability of risk; ultimately contributing to the mitigation and response phases.

In today’s world, there has been one disaster or another, and hurricanes are one of those disasters that always happens. But, for one reason or another we are never prepared or understand the danger of any type of hurricane over a category one. Most of us have been through many hurricanes, like this learner who has lived in Miami, Fla. for over 30 years, and experienced her last hurricane which was Hurricane Andrew. Warnings are always given, first responders are trained to all ways be on alert, and FEMA is supposed to be ready to jump in once the storm has done its damage. But we can never be prepared, because hurricanes are unpredictable, and can become deadly for citizens and create millions of dollars in damages. Within this post we will discuss Hurricane Katrina, preparedness and Emergency management before and after the disaster.

The past hurricane disasters that brought catastrophic damages and losses to numerous victims in the southeastern states prompt everyone to get prepared. With advanced technology, warning alerts can be issued ahead of time to involved citizens so that early preparation can be done. Yet, according to the United States Department of Homeland Security [USDHS] (2015), only 39 percent of Americans surveyed have developed a disaster plan. Lowe and Hummel (2014) also claimed that indifference and complacency are the major barriers to disaster preparedness. In the given scenario for discussion, where a 3-hour tour on the S.S. Minnow with Gilligan and Skipper will be intercepted by a hurricane, an opportunity to plan and bring ten essential items (in a 6x2x2 footlocker) needed for survival will be categorized as follows: health sustenance, clothing, and shelter.

The purpose of this plan is to document the results of the evaluations of the hurricane hazard, present the anticipated risk and damage posed by the hazard. In addition, it will assess how the city addresses hazards with an aim of identifying feasible and cost effective pre-disaster steps that should be taken in the instance of actualization of the risk. The plan will also

Sometimes, critics will criticized the emergency manager for their course of action taken based on several different motives that they foresee. But we must ask ourselves are their point of view is fact based or just opinionated. For example, a flood threatens several cities and there are limited resources to aid them all; an emergency manager must decide which residential area must be preserved through sandbagging and diking. One area is considered low-income resident and low to minmiunm property values. While the other cities are considered wealthy with extremely high property values. Considering all the factors every residents can safely evacuated themselves, but still the world weighs on the emergency manager’s shoulders to make

On August 29, 2009, Hurricane Katrina struck the United States Gulf Coast. It was a Category 3 Hurricane, according to the Saffir Simpson Scale. Winds gusted to up to 140 miles per hour, and the hurricane was almost 400 miles wide . The storm itself did a tremendous amount of damage, but the storm’s aftermath was cataclysmic. Many claimed that the federal government was slow to meet the needs of the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the storm. This paper will examine the four elements of disaster management – preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation – as well as an analysis on the data presented.