Manmade And Natural Disasters

officials climbed the walls of the Branch-Davidian compound on Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, breaking windows and throwing grenades inside the buildings, all for arresting Vernon Wayne Hall, A.K.A. David Koresh. Koresh was the leader of the Davidians, who believed that Koresh was a god who lived in this religious community on Mount Carmel.

A man by the name, Victor Houteff was “defellowshipped from a Los Angeles Seventh- day Adventists church” (CRI) in 1929 and 1930. Due to his unforeseen spiritual movement, Waco Texas in 1993 experienced a 51 day biblical event like never before seen or experienced since the first coming of Christ. The Branch Davidians along with the infamous David Koresh came to be because of Houteff “sharing his “Divergent Views” with other church members” (CRI). It was five years after he was ostracized from the church that Houteff along with twelve others who believed that the Holy Ghost proclaimed him to be the Lamb of God, went to Mt. Carmel Texas. Their purpose was to have a location in which “144,000” could gather in order to fulfill requirements

Waco is where The Branch Davidians were founded; their prophet was David Koresh. David Koresh isn’t his birth name. His real name was Vernon Wayne Howell. David wasn’t born into a wealthy family. He told the FBI that he was raised by his grandparents until he was old enough to be on his own. Koresh never knew his father, and experienced a very lonely childhood when being raised by his mother (in his earlier childhood). He had dropped out of school and joined his mother's Seventh-Day Adventist church. In 1981, David joined The Branch Davidians at Mount Carmel, where he then began studying under Lois Roden. David gained control over the Davidians. Changing his name to “David Koresh” gave him the power of calling himself King David, from the Bible. His last name of “Koresh” comes from the Hebrew language meaning “Cyrus”, dating all the way back to the ancient Persian king. Being the leader of the Branch Davidians, he was accompanied by various spiritual wives- adults, with the youngest being twelve year old females. The spiritual wives would then give David the future leaders of the world. He told the rest of the Davidians that he could interpret the seven seals from the Bible, the testimony of Revelations, to determine the secrets as to when the world was going to

The Branch Davidians are a religious group that resulted from a breakoff in the Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1955. As the group gained members, the leaders decided to move the church just outside of Waco, Texas, to a place they named Mount Carmel, after a mountain in Israel mentioned in Joshua 19:26. Their leader at the time, Florence Houteff, then prophesied that the Second Coming of Jesus was approaching, and ordered the members to stay at the center

Usually disaster response was traditionally ran by State and local governments with the Federal government performing in a support role, but after such events as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, the application of the principles to the threats need to be better tailored to meet the demands of today’s society and needs. In other words, the federal government needs to continue to build upon the foundation of disaster relief and prepare for a more significant role in the response to a cataclysmic event.

Drew TejchmanURST 241Professor PratoMarch 11, 2018Katrina There are many tragic disasters that happen all over the world! Some of these tragic situations that occur are out of our hands and can't always be controlled, but what we can do is help and warn people in these times. In recent disasters we have not been fully committed on doing that and that has led us to be more prepared. When Katrina happened in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 23, 2005 hundreds of people died and lost homes. The main reason was not what happened it was how it was handled by the government. When a disaster happens the government is supposed to send troops and FEMA to help the people in need, bring supplies, and evacuate if needed. When Katrina happened

As well all understand an earthquake are when tectonic plates move against each other which causes an enormous disturbance. These natural disasters are absolutely catastrophic they cause more than 10,000 deaths a year,

As of lately, there have been many natural disasters to hit around the world, affecting many lives. Although there has been overall a struggle to aid everyone impacted in these recent events, one person has a different mindset on how the citizens will get through this. Author Juan Guisti-Cordero published “In Puerto Rico, we invented resilience”, and goes on to give his opinion on the authorities, and how they are not contributing to lend any sort of help. He also mentions that the country will instead heal without the aid of anyone outside of Puerto Rico. Cordero starts off by immediately delivering emotional appeals, then goes on to state some of the reasonable facts surrounding the recent Hurricane Maria. He then goes back to conclude the opinion piecereverting back to use of pathos, delivering a sense of both emotional and logical appeals.

Most people fear natural disasters because the damage that comes after them is always unknown. Natural disasters have gradually increased because of global warming, the increase in earth’s temperature has increased hurricanes and wildfires. Not only are they more frequent, but costs of repair have skyrocketed due to damage caused in the environment and the societies. Natural disasters don’t only affect the location of the disaster, it also has an impact on social-economy and the area population.

Natural disasters play a huge factor in logistics. Every country has its own natural hazards that they should be aware of, be it floods, tornados, hurricanes or volcanoes, all of these vary in how likely they are to occur depending on the region. When one of these occurs, it can affect the entire supply chain heavily by having to reroute the products you are trying to move because the original route you were going to take is now no longer available. By doing so this results in late deliveries, damaged goods, and just an overall disruption of the supply chain as a whole. The main natural hazard that Uruguay has to worry about is flooding. Half of the country’s extreme events over the last decade have been due to flooding. The worst to be recorded in the last 50 years occurred in 2007 where over 100,000 people were affected including the infrastructure of the country and a great loss in its agricultural sector. The National Directorate of Water was created in 2005 to help develop polices to put in place involving all sorts of water-related risk management (World Bank, 2011). The degree of theft in the country does not occur often in the act of transportation but more inside the cities such as Montevideo. Here, there are acts of pickpocketing, grand theft auto, armed robbery, and car break-ins. Montevideo has seen an increase in more violent crimes in the recent years, homicides increased 12 percent from 2014-2015. When traveling outside the capital of Montevideo, it is

Throughout history natural disasters have terrorised mankind. The problem with natural disasters is humans cannot control them, they can create preventative measures and usually can find where the disaster is going to happen but that is the extent of human's ability to control them. When creating preventative measures there is always a budget in mind that keeps everything from being foolproof, which makes large scale disasters sometimes make those preventive measures not enough to completely stop them but only helps reduce cleanup time. In certain cases like large quantities of rain that cause flooding the flood waters are directed towards dams that can hold a certain amount of water before the dam breaks, at max capacity the dam must be opened in some cases causing more flooding downstream causing for a longer cleanup time. In Nick Stockton's article “How Will Huston Handle the Deluge Hurricane Harvey” from August 28, of 2017 in the online version of Wired, he effectively uses logos to show how the project manager is handling rain control during this natural disaster while also showing how casualties and property damage were minimized.

Natural disasters have been a growing problem throughout the world. Hurricanes, forest fires, and even floods are some of the concerns the world faces. According to Jennifer Collins, PhD, associate professor from the University of Florida noted that in 2016 the North Atlantic hurricane season was the most active season with seven hurricane storms(cite). These storms were watched and displayed through media sources throughout the United States by way of the Doppler radar system. Years prior, hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005 with destructive power destroying homes and businesses alike(cite). To this day, the New Orleans region feels the wrath of Katrina brought to the area destroying the local economy, landscape, and population. Using new technologies in the remote sensing field there are ways to pre-plan, react during, and recover efforts in disaster management.

The vulnerabilities when it comes to natural disasters, can be caused from severe weather like storms, droughts, and extreme hot weather. Can also be caused by severe fires. There are areas that have tree limbs overhanging power lines which can cause the powerlines to come down if there is a severe storm that would end up causing these trees to fall on the lines. With inadequate tree trimming this could cause a problem with any kind of weather, with not cutting back tress it makes powerlines more vulnerable with high winds and snow fall from these storms. With these power outages, due to a storm because the trees have not been cut back can cause a blackout and make it vulnerable for a terrorist attack. There is a debate over how serious it can be for terrorists to pose a threat on the U.S. when there is a power outage. Some of the technical failures can come from large accidental outages caused by cascading failures in one of the high voltage transmission systems. The main thing that is focused on with power problems is the transmission and distribution system, substations, and the other associated parts. Human error can also be a problem when it comes to power outages, not doing security checks or system analysis check and finding problems with these systems can also cause power outages. We need electricity so our power system is a potential target for terrorist, even though our electric systems are only one of the targets that terrorist may think of striking but is not

An earthquake that struck Bam, an Iranian city, killed 27,000 people and left 90 percent of housing destroyed. An earthquake just as strong hit San Simeon in California leaving only 2 casualties and 40 damaged homes (Staff). While even just one death is still a tragedy, there is a massive gap between 27,000 individuals and 2. But if both earthquakes hit with the same force, what differed? Why did one earthquake have such a large impact? The simple answer to this lies in the location of the earthquake. The first earthquake occurred in the less developed country of Iran. The other one struck California located in the U.S., a developed nation. Due to a variety of factors, developing countries have proven to be more vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters.

Natural disasters (earthquakes, storms, fires, floods, hurricanes) can cause havoc to a supermarket. Many stores see an influx before the event where a lot of stock is sold, but sometimes this doesn’t happen, and the store must deal with a potential loss of electricity, damage to the infrastructure, supplying the building(s) occupied, and an unknown period where personnel aren’t on site to do daily upkeep tasks.