Puerto Rico Hurricane

Over the past decade, the world has experienced more natural disaster than people can count. Floods, mudslides, earthquakes, and raging fires are just a few of the events that have stripped people away from their families, homes, and possessions. The deadliest of these natural disasters are hurricanes. Extremely strong winds mixed with large waves can cause enormous damage, taking months, even years for towns to recover. Hurricane Katrina left millions of people without homes and families torn apart. Hurricane Sandy demolished the Jersey coast, leaving years of repair work behind. The most recent and powerful hurricane that surfaced is Hurricane Maria. A level five hurricane, Hurricane Maria ripped straight through the United States territory of Puerto Rico. The island lost power, supplies

Ten years ago, on Aug 23, Hurricane Katrina was born over the warm waters of the Bahamas. Alice Jackson was interviewed about the storm, “I could see the house next door turn into a living, breathing monster, as the wind and pressure pushes the house out and in like a breathing creature.” Hurricane Katrina, created above the warm blue waters surrounded the Bahamas that destroyed many homes and took many lives.

There are many people who, after they have endured the trauma of a hurricane, refuse to return to their old houses, or even the area in general. People have different experiences with these traumatic disasters and all deal with them differently. If there is one thing for certain, it’s that they all deal with some sort of loss. Hurricanes are a gigantic setback financially. According to AcuWeather, after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the average cost of damages jumped from $1.8 billion to $9 billion. Hurricane Katrina’s damages cost $145 billion and therefore increased the average cost of damages of a hurricane (www.acuweather.com).

In the turn of the new century, the people of Galveston were faced with a grim reminder. The event that destroyed the small island of Galveston, the Galveston Hurricane, had many social, political, and economic impacts that made this storm life-changing. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 improved Texas for the better and helped Galveston grow stronger as a city.

In April 2012, the United States of America experienced Sandy, known as one of the deadliest and costliest hurricanes in the American history. It is estimated that the hurricane caused damage of about $75 million. Besides numerous causalities along its path, the deadly hurricane left many cities without electricity, communication system, infrastructure and even shelter in many cases. Within the United States, New Jersey and New, both major socio-economic hubs and highly populated regions, remained the worst hit area of the storm.

Hurricane Katrina, one of the most destructive hurricanes to whirl through the southern states of America in 2005, is probably one of the worst natural disasters of the United States in the 21st century. Damages from the storm were estimated at more than $100 billion . People living in the southern states fled north to reach safety from the storm after hearing about it being a category five hurricane on the news a few mornings before Katrina hit the shore. Authorities were doing what they were supposed to be doing, telling everyone to seek shelter, board up windows, head north and prepare for the storm. Everything in the beginning appeared to be just another

After Hurricane Sandy there was a bunch of damage done to theses states : Jamaica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, and the U.S. (“Superstorm Sandy”). “The hurricane left an estimated 200,000 people without shelter” (“Superstorm Sandy”). The property damage was an estimate from between $30-$50 billion (“Superstorm Sandy’’). Many people had no home for a long time nothing to come home to or

Completely out of human control, natural disasters take their toll on people by destroying properties and crops, as well as killing people. There have been many tornadoes in the past, because of these events there are now better warning systems and rebuilding programs. After hurricanes, many people open up their homes for people in need. There are also many large-scale refugee centers that help people that have lost everything due to a hurricane. Adversity brings out a kindness and generosity that is not always present until a storm wakes people up to the needs of others. A man-made storm can also bring an awaking to American society.

To start off, ten years ago a terrible Hurricane, Katrina, demolished much of the Gulf Coast. In 2005, 1.5 million people fled their home when Katrina struck. Approximately 40 percent of the people who left were not able to return, for their homes were destroyed. Roughly 25 percent of migrants were able to relocate within 10-miles of their previous home. Hurricane Katrina was the largest amount of forced migration in the U.S. since the dust bowl.

Moreover, when looking at the impact of a tropical storm we see that it isn’t just the location that affects the extent of said impact. What is arguably more influential on the impact of tropical storm is the level of wealth possessed by the country hit. This again is illustrated by Hurricane Sandy. Hurricane Sandy hit both Cuba and the USA, one an LEDC the other the wealthiest country in the world. In the USA, money was raised by the people of the country through television companies such as Disney-ABC, NBC, and News Corporation raising a total of $41 billion dollars to help the area hit

The island of Puerto Rico was met with destruction at the hands of Hurricane Maria. The storm was the strongest within United States territory in close to a century. Maria thrashed major parts of the Dominican Republic before making landfall on September 21st in Puerto Rico at 11:15 BST in the town of Yabucoa. It clocked in with 155mph winds and knocked out power to the entire nation. All 3.4 million residents were left in the dark.

Hurricanes are one of nature’s most natural occurrences and intense phenomenal storms. Yet, as phenomenal as they are, they are still one of the deadliest and disastrous natural occurrences that continue to plague costal residents with fears of their homes being destroyed, their towns wiped out, and loved ones either disappearing or dying.

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.

Hurricanes are among the costliest and the most destructive of natural disasters. Since 1995, the United States has witnessed more intense activities by hurricanes with Mobile County in Alabama experiencing hurricane Ivan and hurricane Dennis in 2004 and 2005 (Link, 2010). In 2005, Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes to have hit the United States and was rated category three in Mobile County (Marchi, 2007). The response to the disaster was poor owing to the lack of proper disaster preparedness as

Hurricanes also results in the disruption of communities. This created chaos and confusion among the people since they will have to rebuild their homes and lives seeing as many are unable to return to their community to live after the hurricane. A prime example is the community of Cave Valley in St. Ann. It was reported to have been submerged under twenty five feet of water and approximately three hundred persons had to be sheltered at Clarksonville. Consequently, the entire community was separated as families ventured into different avenues (community of people) wherein, they will have to be re-socialized and assimilated into a new environment and the fact that a lot of these individuals are poor makes it a lot harder to move on. However, in a situation where the community can be rebuilt there is normally unity among the people and a sense of camaraderie develops as they help each other to recover from the effects of a hurricane.