ETHICAL ISSUE- All school districts in Tampa Bay reopen Monday; make-up days in flux
On Aug 30, 2017 a extremely powerful hurricane formed in the Atlantic as a category 2 hurricane. As days past the large gust and wind and rain turn from a category 2 to a category 3 hurricane and as days past it fluctuated between a category 2 to a 3 back to a 2. On September 4, 2017 that was the day everyone in the state of Florida became very in tune to make sure we were ready for a category 5 hurricane. Looking at the news as they played out every scenario as to where this storm would head was miserable. I never had so many sleepless nights. As the days past of stocking up on water, Non-perishable foods, flashlight candles, gas. In preparation for the
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I do understand that yes it puts a big dent in the learning plan for the semester. This catastrophic hurricane was something unplan something we as human had no control over. In my opinion to make a child sit through an extra week of class do to the child school being used as a shelter is unjust. The moment the storm came about there was a plan to use the school as a shelter and a plan to clean up, but this plan is not in timely manner. I do understand the things left being from people and their dogs has to be properly sanitizes but a better plan should be in place have a quicker turnaround so now a child has to sit through a extra week of class for because of untimely system to me that is unjust as Dr. martin Luther King stated in his letter from the Birmingham jail “a unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with its moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas an unjust law is a human made law that is not rooted in eternal law or natural law.” Per the artic ether was not a decision made yet but they reference “In the past, when school was closed for weather events, Hillsborough did not have to add any days to the calendar because its schools are open for far more minutes than the state requires. ” so why should they have to make the days this
One way someone can be prepared for cat 5 hurricane is by already gathering supplies a week before so that the following week no one is rushing trying to find water anywhere in the store. Another way is leaving the state or have enough gas for the trip even if you are staying home you want to have gas especially if you lose power make cook food after the hurricane passes.
Hurricane coming”(154). Sure enough a
Category 5 hurricanes are the highest level of impact and size a hurricane can be; therefore they can be very catastrophic and one must prepare (especially when you live in Florida). There are many ways you can prepare efficiently for a hurricane, even if you can not accurately predict when, where, or how hard it will hit.
Did you hear about hurricane Irma? Hurricane Irma was the second major hurricane in 2017. This hurricane cause so many disasters. It flooded Florida, left thousands leaving without power, and left so many destroyed houses and buildings.
According to the Business Dictionary, government involvement is considered any “regulatory action taken by a government in order to affect or interfere with decisions.” Many accuse the United States’ national government of minimal and slow actions taken after the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. Others share the blame of this response between local, state, and national governments. This research paper will focus on the government’s interaction after the strike of a furious Hurricane Katrina.
Seven years ago it was nothing for Andie to swat at the snooze button, deliver a hearty yawn and grumble, "Just five more minutes," then roll over in bed. However, that week in September 2008 was different because two-hundred miles away a Category 1 hurricane pushed ahead, swelling from ingesting the Gulf's warm moist air. After a third snooze cycle, Andie slips from her bed and flips on the television for a weather update on Hurricane Ike. The text from the ticker scrolls that Ike is projected to make landfall in 24 hours and evacuation is mandatory.
The Unites States Has already bin hit by several hurricanes in the past few months, and this isn’t at all the end of it. Many climatologists speculate that this is going to continue well in to October, making our hurricane season a bit longer then usual. Many people are terrified, and scared think this is unusual, but that isn’t the case. Hurricane after hurricane is not unusual in hurricane season. In fact this years case, is very similar to 2005 case of hurricanes, when we had Katrina, Rita, and Wilma all hit at similar times. Many people, including Pope
As our city grieves in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, a category four hurricane that hit Houston as a tropical storm, our nation is left battling economic and social concerns that will impact the future of both Texas and America as a whole. As many areas of Houston are transitioning from relief to rebuilding, our politicians and local leaders need to take hard look at the best path moving forward. Despite tensions between Texan politicians and the national government, it is to our benefit that we turn to federal funding to provide for our people. Though we are “Houston Strong” and were able to act quickly in helping our neighbors immediately following the devastation, it is imperative that we work cohesively with the national government to make Texas stronger for the long-run. As we begin moving forward we need to ask ourselves, “Do we want to rebuild sooner or better?”
Living in Florida there are many things to be worried about from alligators, hot heat, and the most important hurricanes. The first hurricane I experienced was in the first two months of me living in Florida. I moved here from New York and I had no idea what to expect when I heard that a hurricane was coming. It was like nothing I had experienced before, seeing a tree pulled from the ground by only water and wind was a devastating experience that I was something I did not expect to see. After the hurricane, my dad went to the store and bought as much; canned food, water bottles, candles, flashlights and batteries he could find to make sure that just in case another hurricane hit we would be prepared. After the hurricane, I started to wonder about better ways on how to prepare for another hurricane. Especially, living in Florida there are
The Great Hurricane of 1938, or known to many as the Long Island Express, was known as one of the most disastrous hurricanes to hit New England. It wasn’t the high winds, heavy rain, and high waves/storm surge that gave this hurricane its title in history. The Great Hurricane had a fourth deadly weapon; the element of surprise. It was the beginning of September, a time where many packed up their summer clothes, boarded up their houses, and left to return back to the real world leaving their summer homes behind. When symptoms of a storm approached New England, many locals convinced themselves and others that it was just the normal “line storm” which occasionally comes in September. It wasn’t until Sept 21 that people realized the so-called
Here comes the number one question for everyone. How ready are you ready? Know your disaster seasons! Anywhere you live in the world there is some form of disaster. It might not affect you or your family, but there are lives that had been lost because people do not follow the proper steps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). To tell you the truth, I am one of them. Ever since I moved from New York to reside in Florida, I was told that my area is a no flood zone. Florida landscape is almost as flat as a pancake and is below sea level. As I scroll through the list of things that I needed in case there is a natural disaster, to tell you the truth I am not even close. So, far my area had not been touched since I moved from New York to Florida 10 years ago. However, hurricanes and storms are not new to me.
Did you know that Hurricanes have killed approximately 1.9 million people worldwide over the past 200 years. (Karen lenhardt said in her 2017 article on facts about hurricanes). We are seeing more and more of these occur, this year we have already encountered 13 named storms, 7 of them being hurricanes. Only four other seasons since 1995 have had that many by Sept. 18. Just two more by the end of the year would put 2017 in the top 15 since 1851. Maggie Astor stated in her New York Times news report about the 2017 Hurricane season . We must take notice and learn about the hurricane process so that we are able to understand the stages that hurricanes go through to get to be so fierce and devastating to get the strength to kill that many people.
I have lived in P.R., a tropical island, until two years ago when I moved to the US. Hurricanes in my memory, when growing up, were school time off. It was also seen as time to spend with family, watching the wind move the trees and rain fall. Having a strict diet due to galactosemia, I didn’t find it enjoyable eating canned meat and crackers. So far P.R. has been lucky, almost twenty years of avoiding even a category one force hurricane. Until now, hurricanes seem to change their path up to two hundred miles away. Many answered last minute prayers disintegrating into tropical storms with little or no impact.
Category 5 hurricanes are infrequent, therefore there may not be much planning for this event. When comparing two category 5 hurricanes, Hurricane Andrew, and Hurricane Katrina, which took place in the states of Florida and Louisiana. I found similarities throughout the comparison of the two hurricanes in two different states. In Louisiana the median salary is $44,555 a year, and there is a whopping poverty rate of 19.8% (Mekouar) contrasted to Florida where the median salary is $47,463 a year, with a lower poverty rate of 16.5%. Hurricane Andrew ripped through Florida on August 24, 1992, 4 days later on August 28th supplies from the Pentagon was sent to survivors. (Pear) A similarity was found with Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, which was where the monster was strongest, on August 29, 2005. Hurricane Katrina was finished with Louisiana on August 31st, the first initial government supplies and relief aid after the hurricane was signed for on the 2nd and 4th of September. As can be seen, a relatively richer state had very similar treatment to a less wealthy state when a natural disaster roared
Since August 28th, 2017 hurricanes have come one after the other to the United States. Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, and Hurricane Irma has slapped the Caribbean Islands like you would slap an annoying fly. It also hit Florida but not as bad. Most recently, Hurricane Maria has hit the Caribbean again. At least 70 people died so far because they either didn’t evacuate in time or chose to stay to ride out the storm. If people evacuated like they were warned the death toll would be smaller or no toll at all.