Natural Disasters In Texas

Texas has received record amounts of rainfall, causing serious flooding all throughout the state of Texas. According to an article published on June 3rd, Houston is looking at an economic impact of roughly 550 million dollars. This interests me greatly because I live in Texas, and seeing prices going up, especially on local produces, is something that will directly impact me. Because of the record rain falls, local farmers are especially in a world of hurt as their crops were destroyed by the rain. For local farmers markets, and local grocery stores that support local farmers, I think you'll start to see a raise in prices as the farmers will be having to make up their margins somewhere. Also, I think you'll start to see Texas lean on other

In 1990, the galveston hurricane occurred. It was one of america’s deadliest natural disasters. It all started on august 27th, with very high winds coming from the tropical atlantic. On september 3rd, it reached cuba, cuba then had heavy rain. U.S weather bureau ignored the reports from cuban meteorologist because they expected the storm to move to the northeast along the U.S east and then exit to the atlantic. They were wrong the region of high pressure pushed the storm west to the gulf of mexico. The tides kept getting closer to the inland and the winds increased. It ended on september 17, with buildings destroyed. No one really knew it was gonna be that bad but it destroyed a lot of galveston. This disaster killed 6,000 to 8,000+. The

The time I helped someone out of their house during a natural disaster was about 7 years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday. Hot, Wind-fed tornado swirled around southern California. The lady that I saved had been through a natural disaster before and never been harmed. So the lady stayed put.

reject such a life (Tomasini, 2014). Third, the Hippocratic Oath is an oath taken by all medical

In this book “A Paradise Built in Hell: the extraordinary communities that arise in disaster,” by Rebecca Solnit. Solnit discusses the human nature of individuals amongst disasters. Solnit writes in her first chapter “A millennial good fellowship: The San Francisco Earthquake” captures different accounts of individuals from the 1906 earthquake. There are five sections in this chapter that Solnit will discuss the traits of people in catastrophes. “The Mizpah Café” Solnit describes the kind acts of a citizen Mrs. Anna Amelia Holshouer fed the people and gave them a place to come and gave them a place to come and relax and about they just lost everything “Disaster requires an ability to embrace contradiction in both the minds of those trying

My group and I believe that the safest place in America is Las Vegas, New Mexico that is. New Mexico is one of the few states with few to no common natural disasters. We believe this because the only natural disaster in New Mexico is thunderstorms. Thunderstorms occur almost anywhere, they are made by updrafts which is made with warm air rising. Las Vegas is free of hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquake and only has one natural disaster that is common, thunderstorms.

Doctors have an oath called the Hippocratic Oath and part of that oath states the following.

On April 17, 2013 the disaster of West, TX was an ammonium nitrate explosion at a fertilizer storage and distribution facility. The explosion killed 15 and 200 other people were injured. According to the United States Geological Survey, the explosion was recorded as a 2.1-magnitude tremor. 350 homes and buildings were damaged or destroyed, including three schools, an apartment complex and a nursing home. The last time the plant had been inspected by OSHA (Occupational safety and Health Administration) was in 1985. The force of the explosion was 7.5-10 tons of TNT. The injuries that were seen included typical 'blast injuries': punctured lungs, bowels, eardrums and wounds caused by flying shrapnel and debris. Some had broken bones and head injuries

The damage done by the recent floods in Louisiana has completely adulterated the lives and homes of the residents.

Medicine has always been a necessity of civilized life, as a healthy population makes a prosperous society. The science of medicine has changed over the millennia, and one of the earliest scientific forms was the Hippocratic method of the Four Humors. At the time of Hippocrates, there was a split in the field of medicine between the Asclepius centers of healing and the school of Hippocrates (McClellan and Dorn, 65). Around the same time, Hippocrates developed the Hippocratic Oath that not only developed a code of medical ethics, but also ensured the allegiance of physicians to their master and the method. In the Oath, Hippocrates shows how men were more respected than women both in the field of medicine,

If I do not try to stop this disaster as I walk to my bed.

Hippocratic Oath is one of the oldest binding documents in history, and it is still held sacred by physicians to help the ill, to preserve a patient's privacy, but most importantly it is taken by doctors swearing to practice medicine ethically. Practicing medicine ethically might have been very sacred centuries ago, but unfortunately it is not the case in today's society especially in the United States. Doctors in the United States face more than just high education costs, liability insurance payments, and long hours of work just to stay on top of the latest advancement in medical technology, but many of them also have to deal every day with insurance companies that do not want to cover their patients recommended treatments. A doctor's

In general, contemporary physicians are primarily trained to be competent in the field of medicine, from diagnosing their patients to prescribing therapy. Yet, they are not heavily taught medical ethics during their schooling: how should physicians conduct themselves around their patients? Nevertheless, medical traditions in China and Greece were thoroughly concerned about this question, which led to several of texts. In particular, the Greek developed an oath, known as the Hippocratic Oath, which were historically taken by physicians to essentially do no harm, while a Tang physician, Sun Simiao, wrote a text, “On the absolute sincerity of great physicians” that explained how physicians should behave around their patients. These two texts share a few comparable ideas on medical ethics, including compassion and competency. They also have dissimilarities since the Hippocratic Oath incorporated religion to medical ethics while the Sun Simiao incorporated philosophical principles, such as Confucian and Buddhist principles, to medical ethics.

Hurricane Katrina left the world, and of course America, wondering what happened and how could a situation like this occur? From beginning to the very end the level incompetence and disregard for people was astonishing. Several rap artists, political analysts, media contributors, and eye witnesses were vocal about their outrage of the situation and how disturbing it was to watch most of the population of the city, which was black, suffer and be subjected to these harsh and inhumane conditions for so long a period without any real relief or help. Not only did this controversy show the utter lack of ability to handle a natural disaster of a hurricane, it also showed the level of respect and consideration from the Bush administration at the time.

Tsunami is not just a single giant wave, it may even consist of ten or more waves which is then termed as: “Tsunami Wave Train” . Tsunami possesses kinetic energy and a mass of water which can cause devastation through kineticism and flooding. There is an international tsunami warning system and certain regional tsunami warning systems are also in placed.